{"id":8038,"date":"2014-02-26T10:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2014-03-31T01:55:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:55:20","slug":"russia-warns-saudi-arabia-against-giving-syria-terrorists-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/russia-warns-saudi-arabia-against-giving-syria-terrorists-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns Saudi Arabia against giving Syria terrorists missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia on Tuesday warned Saudi Arabia against supplying Syrian rebels with shoulder-launched missile launchers, saying such a move would endanger security across the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; by news reports that Saudi Arabia was planning to buy Pakistani-made shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank systems for armed Syrian terrorists based in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the aim was to alter the balance of power in a planned war by terrorists on the Syrian government, army and people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this sensitive weapon falls into the hands of extremists and terrorists who have flooded Syria, there is a great probability that in the end it will be used far from the borders of this Middle Eastern country,&#8221; the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Long-existing tensions between Russia and Saudi Arabia have intensified further as a result of the Syria crisis, with Moscow standing by government but Riyadh offering open support for the terrorist groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia on Tuesday warned Saudi Arabia against supplying Syrian rebels with shoulder-launched missile launchers, saying such a move would endanger security across the Middle East and beyond. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; by news reports that Saudi Arabia was planning to buy Pakistani-made shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208,22,167,163,209],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","tag-russia","tag-takfiri","tag-terrorist","tag-ticker","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}