{"id":19251,"date":"2013-12-08T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19251"},"modified":"2013-12-08T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:48:02","slug":"irans-defense-minister-warns-arab-neighbors-of-us-psychological-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19251","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Warns Arab Neighbors of US \u2018Psychological Warfare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Warns Arab Neighbors of US \u2018Psychological Warfare\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n8 December, 2013 &#8211; Nasim\t<\/p>\n<p>Nasim\u2014Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan warned Persian Gulf countries to be aware of \u201cUS psychological warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sunday, Iranian defense minister stressed that \u201cdiplomacy will result if it is based on rationality and logic not on using force, belligerent approaches and violating others\u2019 right\u201d, replying to the US Defense Minister Chuck Hagel\u2019s statements a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiplomacy with Iran must be backed up by U.S. military might\u201d, Pentagon chief said Dec. 7 in a speech addressed to Gulf allies referring to the nuclear deal with Tehran. He also promised to maintain a 35,000-strong force in the Gulf region, as well as an armada of ships and warplanes, despite the recent deal with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Dehghan also underlined that language of war and threat is not accepted in the public minds, adding that employing \u201cbelligerent rhetoric will increase nations\u2019 hatred and distrust in the speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described Hagel\u2019s promise to sell more weapons to Persian Gulf countries as \u201can evidence of US Iranophobia project,\u201d underlining that the region\u2019s security lies in \u201cconstructive interaction and cooperation with good will among the countries.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.nasimonline.ir\/archives\/12220\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D19251&amp;text=Iran%E2%80%99s+Defense+Minister+Warns+Arab+Neighbors+of+US+%E2%80%98Psychological+Warfare%E2%80%99&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Warns Arab Neighbors of US \u2018Psychological Warfare\u2019 8 December, 2013 &#8211; Nasim Nasim\u2014Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan warned Persian Gulf countries to be aware of \u201cUS psychological warfare.\u201d Speaking on Sunday, Iranian defense minister stressed that \u201cdiplomacy will result if it is based on rationality and logic not on using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19251#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[4166],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19253,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251\/revisions\/19253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}