{"id":56726,"date":"2019-12-30T07:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56726"},"modified":"2019-12-30T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:49:34","slug":"iranian-navy-chief-urges-u-s-forces-to-leave-regional-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56726","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Navy Chief Urges U.S. Forces To Leave Regional Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Iran, Dec 30 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; The Iranian navy commander said on Sunday that, the U.S. naval forces should leave regional waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The era of American free action in the region is over, and they (the U.S. naval forces) must leave the region gradually,&#8221; Hossein Khanzadi said, on the sidelines of a joint naval exercise with Russia and China, which is underway in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We believe regional security does not require the presence of those (foreign) countries, and that regional countries themselves can ensure security together,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khanzadi urged regional states to join Iran, in the efforts to ensure security as &#8220;maritime security definitely needs collective action.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Russia, Iran and China began a four-day joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman.&#8211; NNN-TASNIM  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran, Dec 30 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; The Iranian navy commander said on Sunday that, the U.S. naval forces should leave regional waters. &#8220;The era of American free action in the region is over, and they (the U.S. naval forces) must leave the region gradually,&#8221; Hossein Khanzadi said, on the sidelines of a joint naval exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,209,194,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56726"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}