{"id":64741,"date":"2016-03-08T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64741"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:57:31","slug":"iran-flexes-missile-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64741","title":{"rendered":"Iran flexes missile muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iran-conducts-fresh-ballistic-missile-tests-state-media-085935504.html\">AFP<\/a> reports that Iran conducted several missile tests today in contradiction to the agreement that John Kerry spent about three minutes reading last year. Iran state media didn&#8217;t bother to hide the broad test of short-, medium-, and long-range tests;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pictures of the launches were broadcast and reports said the armaments used had ranges of 300 kilometres (190 miles), 500 km, 800 km and 2,000 km.<\/p>\n<p>The United States hit Iran with fresh sanctions on its missile programme in January, 24 hours after separate sanctions related to Tehran&#8217;s nuclear activities had been lifted under a landmark deal with world powers.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our main enemies, the Americans, who mutter about plans, have activated new missile sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran and are seeking to weaken the country\u2019s missile capability,&#8221; [Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh] said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Guards and other armed forces are defenders of the revolution and the country will not pay a toll to anyone&#8230; and will stand against their excessive demands.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republican Guard units that conducted the tests report directly to the mullahs, not the government of Iran. So far, they&#8217;ve violated nearly every aspect of the Kerry treaty since they got their money back and most of the sanctions were lifted &#8211; the sanctions that were designed to impede their nuclear program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that Iran conducted several missile tests today in contradiction to the agreement that John &hellip; <a title=\"Iran flexes missile muscle\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64741\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran flexes missile muscle<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}