{"id":179559,"date":"2018-11-24T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179559"},"modified":"2018-11-26T06:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:29:37","slug":"senior-cleric-world-knows-us-supporting-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179559","title":{"rendered":"Senior Cleric: World Knows US Supporting Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fars News Agency \u2013 Nov 23, 2018<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ayatollah-Khatami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-179562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ayatollah-Khatami.jpg\" alt=\"Ayatollah Khatami\" width=\"540\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ayatollah-Khatami.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ayatollah-Khatami-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tehran&#8217;s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami blasted Washington for continuing its nurturing of terrorist groups across the world, and said that the Islamic states should unite against the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people in Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami said, &#8220;The recent statements by US President Donald Trump were very cheap as the world is fully aware who supports and nurtures the terrorists; who sent terrorists to Syria.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ayatollah Khatami&#8217;s remarks came in reaction to recent anti-Iran statements of President Trump who accused Iran of supporting terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The senior cleric noted that the Muslim World will give a crushing response to the US by maintaining its unity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The remarks by the cleric came after hawkish statements by US President Donald Trump against Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Trump issued a statement on Tuesday to declare his view on ties with Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi case, but he started the statement by branding Iran as a terrorist nation before throwing his weight behind the Riyadh rulers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The Iranian nation is considered the world\u2019s leading sponsor of terror,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US president defied the nation\u2019s intelligence agencies and a growing body of evidence to declare his unswerving loyalty to Saudi Arabia, asserting that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman\u2019s culpability for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi might never be known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 633 words, punctuated by eight exclamation points and written in an impolitic style that sounded like Mr. Trump\u2019s off-the-cuff observations, the statement was a stark distillation of the Trump worldview: remorselessly transactional, heedless of the facts, determined to put America\u2019s interests above human rights and even people&#8217;s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.farsnews.com\/newstext.aspx?nn=13970902000283\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world may know but Americans and much of the West don\u2019t because the corporate media won&#8217;t say as much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179564,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179559\/revisions\/179564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}