{"id":12010,"date":"2009-12-13T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12010"},"modified":"2009-12-13T05:58:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T10:58:44","slug":"clinton-warns-latin-america-think-twice-about-iran-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12010","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Warns Latin America: Think Twice about Iran Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Al-Manar TV<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.almanar.com.lb\/NewsSite\/NewsDetails.aspx?id=114974&#038;language=en\">12 December 2009<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Latin American countries on Friday not to get too close to Iran, calling it &#8220;a really bad idea&#8221; that could have consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said the United States was well aware Iran had stepped up its diplomatic activities in the region, citing Venezuela and Bolivia in particular. &#8220;We can only say that is a really bad idea for the countries involved,&#8221; Clinton told a State Department briefing on Latin American relations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the major supporter, promoter and exporter of terrorism in the world today,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;If people want to flirt with Iran, they should take a look at what the consequences might well be for them. And we hope that they will think twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.almanar.com.lb\/NewsSite\/NewsDetails.aspx?id=114974&#038;language=en\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Jim Lobe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/kristol-pivots-from-afghanistan-to-iran\/\">Kristol Pivots from Afghanistan to Iran<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Manar TV 12 December 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Latin American countries on Friday not to get too close to Iran, calling it &#8220;a really bad idea&#8221; that could have consequences. Clinton said the United States was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-37I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12014,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}