{"id":11781,"date":"2019-03-03T20:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2019-03-03T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T12:40:15","slug":"iran-warns-us-allies-of-humiliated-citizens-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11781","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns US allies of &#8216;humiliated citizens&#8217; uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iran-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iran-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iran-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iran-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iran-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iran.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council,\u00a0said US officials &#8220;ridicule and humiliate&#8221; countries such as Saudi Arabia<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>TEHRAN, Iran, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;  US allies in the Middle East risk an uprising by their &#8220;humiliated citizens&#8221; if they continue to rely on Washington, a top Iranian security official warned Sunday (Mar 3) in comments carried by state media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;(US President) Trump and even his underlings ridicule and humiliate Saudi Arabia and the (United Arab) Emirates day and night, saying that you&#8217;re nothing without us and cannot last a day without America&#8217;s support,&#8221; said Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council.<\/p><cite>Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, said US officials &#8220;ridicule and humiliate&#8221; countries such as Saudi Arabia<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in October, Trump said that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s 83-year-old King Salman &#8220;might not be there for two weeks&#8221; without US military support. The comments were mostly shrugged off by Riyadh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our prediction about America&#8217;s allies in the region is that if they continue the policy of relying on Islam&#8217;s enemies, they will face the uprising of their humiliated citizens,&#8221; said Shamkhani, whose comments were published by the official IRNA news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s relations with its Gulf neighbours have soured in recent years and tensions escalated last month when the Islamic Republic accused Riyadh and Abu Dhabi of being complicit in a suicide bombing that killed 27 Iranian troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Islamic Republic&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards blasted the &#8220;traitorous governments of Saudi Arabia and (the) Emirates&#8221; and said Iran will no longer tolerate their &#8220;hidden support for anti-Islam thugs and Takfiri (Sunni extremist) groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Feb 13 bombing targeted a busload of Guards in the volatile southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan and was claimed by Jaish al-Adl, a Pakistan-based extremist group blacklisted by Iran as terrorists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; US allies in the Middle East risk an uprising by their &#8220;humiliated citizens&#8221; if they continue to rely on Washington, a top Iranian security official warned Sunday (Mar 3) in comments carried by state media. &#8220;(US President) Trump and even his underlings ridicule and humiliate Saudi Arabia and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}