{"id":27230,"date":"2011-07-12T21:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/panetta_to_take_on_irans_arming_of_iraq\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T21:20:14","slug":"panetta_to_take_on_irans_arming_of_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27230","title":{"rendered":"Panetta to &#39;take on&#39; Iran&#39;s arming of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will not &#8220;walk away&#8221; from the challenge of Iran&#8217;s stepped-up arming of Iraqi insurgents who are targeting and killing American troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very concerned about Iran and the weapons they&#8217;re providing to extremists in Iraq,&#8221; he told soldiers on his first visit to Iraq as Pentagon chief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot sit back and simply allow this to continue to happen&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is not something we&#8217;re going to walk away from. It&#8217;s something we&#8217;re going to take on head-on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-07-12-PanettaIraq_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will not &#8220;walk away&#8221; from the challenge of Iran&#8217;s stepped-up arming of Iraqi insurgents who are targeting and killing American troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday. &#8220;We&#8217;re very concerned about Iran and the weapons they&#8217;re providing to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27230\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,143,144,564,141,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-iraq-war","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}