{"id":937,"date":"2007-10-03T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T08:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrikaansenuus.co.za\/?p=937"},"modified":"2007-10-03T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T08:24:17","slug":"coalition-of-the-unwilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Coalition of the unwilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"first\">Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has ruled out Australian involvement in any United States-led military action in Iran.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has been writing about the possibility of a US strike on Iran for the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Mr Hersh says US President George W Bush is now focussing on getting support from allies, including Australia.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Mr Downer says he does not believe America is planning to invade Iran, but if the US did pursue that path, Australia would not follow.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;The American position is that they just don&#8217;t rule in or rule out the military option,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;That&#8217;s particularly in the context of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, which the whole of the international community is concerned about. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;We&#8217;re not planning to get involved with any military action against anybody.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--5960e87fc2d6a1499523199--><a style=\"display:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/pro100casino.com\">online casino<\/a><!--\/5960e87fc2d6a1499523199--><!--5a09856a5f4b41510573418--><a style=\"display:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/fakty.ua\/246431-prokuratura-harkovcshiny-podozrevaet-otca-v-ubijstve-trehletnego-syna\">\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443\u0440\u043e\u0440 \u0424\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0447\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0432<\/a><!--\/5a09856a5f4b41510573418--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has ruled out Australian involvement in any United States-led military action in Iran. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has been writing about the possibility of a US strike on Iran for the past 18 months. Mr Hersh says US President George W Bush is now focussing on getting support from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coalition of the unwilling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[926,21098,427],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c51-international-news","tag-coalition-of-the-unwilling","tag-s19-english","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}