{"id":38929,"date":"2019-04-09T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38929"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:22:52","slug":"rouhani-iran-will-continue-resisting-us-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38929","title":{"rendered":"Rouhani: Iran will continue resisting US pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1479866\/middle-east\" readability=\"78.0036478599\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said they will produce IR8 advanced centrifuges as part of the country\u2019s nuclear program if the US continued to impose pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe defended the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as protectors of the Islamic republic a day after the United States\u00a0labeled\u00a0the group as a foreign terrorist organization, and said the army confronted terrorists in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Guards have sacrificed their lives to protect our people, our (1979 Islamic) revolution &#8230; today America that holds a grudge against the Guards, blacklists the Guards,\u201d Rouhani said in a live speech broadcast live on state TV.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US made a mistake by\u00a0labeling\u00a0the Guards as a terrorist group, Rouhani stated, adding that it would unite Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, The Supreme National Security Council declared the United States a \u201cstate sponsor of terrorism\u201d and its forces in the region \u201cterror groups,\u201d in a tit-for-tat response.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a statement carried by the official news agency IRNA, it slammed Washington\u2019s move as an \u201cillegal and foolish act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nZarif blasted the US move on Twitter, saying it was timed to support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Tuesday\u2019s parliamentary election in the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cA(nother) misguided election-eve gift to Netanyahu. A(nother) dangerous US misadventure in the region,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.45454545455\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A(nother) misguided election-eve gift to Netanyahu. A(nother) dangerous U.S. misadventure in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Javad Zarif (@JZarif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JZarif\/status\/1115282103942381568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nUS President Donald Trump designated Iran\u2019s Guards a foreign terrorist organization on Monday \u2014 an\u00a0unprecedented step that critics say will raise tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is the first time the United States has applied the designation to part of a foreign government, rather than guerrilla groups or other informal entities.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe move follows Trump\u2019s decision to pull the United States out of a multilateral deal with Iran that was meant to lift crippling economic sanctions in return curbs on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said they will produce IR8 advanced centrifuges as part of the country\u2019s nuclear program if the US continued to impose pressure. He defended the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as protectors of the Islamic republic a day after the United States\u00a0labeled\u00a0the group as a foreign terrorist organization, and said the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38929","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\/38929","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=38929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}