{"id":12046,"date":"2018-08-19T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12046"},"modified":"2018-08-19T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:23:50","slug":"egypt-says-plane-hijacker-extradited-from-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12046","title":{"rendered":"Egypt says plane hijacker extradited from Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1358771\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran will unveil this week a new jet fighter and upgrade its missile defenses to meet threats from Israel and the US, Tasnim news agency said Sunday quoting the defense minister.<br \/>\u201cOur first priority is our missile capability and we must enhance it&#8230; given the enemy\u2019s efforts in missile defense,\u201d said Amir Hatami in an interview on television late Saturday, according to Tasnim.<br \/>He added that a new fighter jet \u201cwill fly on National Defense Industry Day,\u201d which falls on Wednesday.<br \/>Hatami said the defense program was motivated by memories of the missile attacks Iran suffered during its eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, and by repeated threats from Israel and the United States that \u201call options are on the table\u201d in dealing with the Islamic republic.<br \/>\u201cWe have learned in the (Iran-Iraq) war that we cannot rely on anyone but ourselves. We saw that wherever we are not capable, no one will have mercy on us,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cOur resources are limited and we are committed to establishing security at a minimum cost.<br \/>\u201cWe upgrade our missiles according to our enemies\u2019 threats and actions, as a deterrent and to give a crushing response to the enemy,\u201d he added.<br \/>Hatami added that regional rival Saudi Arabia \u201chas the largest military budget in the world after America and China&#8230; while our defense budget is limited.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWhat would any nation with such a situation and past do in our place?\u201d he said.<br \/>The defense minister dismissed the idea of an \u201cArab NATO\u201d \u2014 an old concept that has recently resurfaced as Washington tries to push regional countries to accept a greater share of their defense.<br \/>\u201cArab NATO is part of the game of creating discord by the enemy and it\u2019s not worth paying attention to,\u201d said Hatami.<br \/>\u201cIt is unlikely that America and the Zionist regime (Israel) allow Muslim countries to come together. They know well that the aim of Muslim nations is to destroy the Zionist regime and defend Palestine,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran will unveil this week a new jet fighter and upgrade its missile defenses to meet threats from Israel and the US, Tasnim news agency said Sunday quoting the defense minister.\u201cOur first priority is our missile capability and we must enhance it&#8230; given the enemy\u2019s efforts in missile defense,\u201d said Amir Hatami in an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}