{"id":2547,"date":"2014-09-11T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T09:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2014-09-11T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:01:18","slug":"iran-bigger-threat-than-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/iran-bigger-threat-than-islamic-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran \u2018bigger threat than Islamic State\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Henry-Kissinger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2548\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Henry-Kissinger.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Kissinger\" width=\"368\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Henry-Kissinger.jpg 368w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Henry-Kissinger-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a>Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said that Iran \u201cis a bigger problem than Islamic State,\u201d in an interview with Washington-based National Public Radio, reported alarabiya.net<br \/>\n\u201cThere has come into being a kind of a Shiite belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut,\u201d said the veteran former diplomat, 91, who served under disgraced President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. \u201cAnd this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire &#8230; in the rebuilding of the Middle East.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added: \u201cIS &#8230; has to conquer more and more territory before they can became a strategic, permanent reality. I think a conflict with IS \u2014 important as it is \u2014 is more manageable than a confrontation with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/iran-bigger-threat-than-islamic-state\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said that Iran \u201cis a bigger problem than Islamic State,\u201d in an interview with Washington-based National Public Radio, reported alarabiya.net \u201cThere has come into being a kind of a Shiite belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut,\u201d said the veteran former diplomat, 91, who served under disgraced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}