{"id":5555,"date":"2019-05-29T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2019-05-29T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:38:51","slug":"mr-bolton-provided-no-evidence-to-support-the-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5555","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bolton provided no evidence to support the allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-48443454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US National Security Adviser John Bolton has said &#8222;naval mines almost certainly from Iran&#8220; were to blame for the damage to oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bolton provided no evidence to support the allegation, which Iran said was &#8222;laughable&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, US Vice Admiral Michael Gilday said he believed &#8222;with a high degree of confidence that this [attack] stems back to the leadership of Iran at the highest levels&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bolton, a long-standing advocate for regime change in Iran, echoed the admiral&#8217;s words during a visit to the UAE on Wednesday, telling reporters it was &#8222;clear that Iran is behind&#8220; the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;There&#8217;s no doubt in anybody&#8217;s mind in Washington who&#8217;s responsible for this,&#8220; he said. &#8222;Who else would you think is doing it?&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: US National Security Adviser John Bolton has said &#8222;naval mines almost certainly from Iran&#8220; were to blame for the damage to oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month. Mr Bolton provided no evidence to support the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5555\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}