{"id":5763,"date":"2016-10-04T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2016-10-04T23:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:59:46","slug":"american-officials-russian-and-syrian-forces-committing-mass-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5763\/","title":{"rendered":"American officials: Russian and Syrian forces committing mass atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5764\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/201610417313178452131_A-child-is-pulled-from-the-rubble-of-a-building-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5764 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/201610417313178452131_A-child-is-pulled-from-the-rubble-of-a-building--300x171.jpg\" alt=\"201610417313178452131_a-child-is-pulled-from-the-rubble-of-a-building\" width=\"644\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/201610417313178452131_A-child-is-pulled-from-the-rubble-of-a-building--300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/201610417313178452131_A-child-is-pulled-from-the-rubble-of-a-building-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>A child is pulled from the rubble of a building after airstrikes in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American intelligence officials on Monday pointedly accused Russian and Syrian forces of mass atrocities during their advance on the city, describing a horrific bombing campaign in recent days that has killed women and children at an increasing rate.<br \/>\n&#8216;The regime and Russia&#8217;s use of incendiary weapons have contributed to the unconscionable civilian deaths and suffering,&#8217; a U.S. intelligence official said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/images\/2016\/2016104173131784521351.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;[F]OUR PEOPLE &#8230; ARGUED FOR USE OF FORCE, AND I LOST THE ARGUMENT.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nIf Aleppo were to fall, it would put the lives of tens of thousands of additional Syrian civilians at risk, in a war that has already killed more than 400,000 and spawned a massive refugee crisis. Obama might be able to save the city for the rebels if he ordered U.S. air strikes against Assad&#8217;s forces, but those would carry a significant risk of escalation with Russia, which backs the Assad regime and is bombing rebel positions.<br \/>\nOn an audio recording released over the weekend, Secretary Kerry could be heard saying he had argued unsuccessfully for military action.<br \/>\n&#8216;I think you&#8217;re looking at three people, four people in the administration who have all argued for use of force, and I lost the argument,&#8217; Kerry told a group of Syrians on the tape first reported by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: NBC News, 04 Oct. 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>American intelligence officials on Monday pointedly accused Russian and Syrian forces of mass atrocities during their advance on the city, describing a horrific bombing campaign <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5763\/\" title=\"American officials: Russian and Syrian forces committing mass atrocities\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-rights","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}