{"id":39784,"date":"2019-06-18T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39784"},"modified":"2019-06-18T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:22:14","slug":"us-to-send-1000-additional-troops-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39784","title":{"rendered":"US to send 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1512306\/middle-east\" readability=\"41\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nDUBAI\/WASHINGTON: Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were \u201cdefensive purposes,\u201d citing concerns about a threat from Iran.<br \/>\u201cThe recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behavior by Iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten United States personnel and interests across the region,\u201d Shanahan said in a statement.<br \/>Reuters first reported plans to send US additional troops to the Middle East earlier on Monday.<br \/>Fears of a confrontation between Iran and the United States have mounted since last Thursday when two oil tankers were attacked, more than a year after President Donald Trump announced Washington was withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear deal.<br \/>Iran said on Monday it would soon breach limits on how much enriched uranium it can stockpile under the deal, which a White House National Security Council spokesman said amounted to \u201cnuclear blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI\/WASHINGTON: Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were \u201cdefensive purposes,\u201d citing concerns about a threat from Iran.\u201cThe recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behavior by Iranian forces and their proxy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39784","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\/39784","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=39784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}