{"id":7009,"date":"2017-02-08T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T03:14:14","slug":"america-is-a-paper-bear-says-irgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/america-is-a-paper-bear-says-irgc\/","title":{"rendered":"America is a \u201cpaper bear\u201d, says IRGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7010 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20172813402989175301_Western-media-said-Trumpu2019s-administration-is--300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20172813402989175301_Western-media-said-Trumpu2019s-administration-is--300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20172813402989175301_Western-media-said-Trumpu2019s-administration-is-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/>Trend- Tehran, Iran, 8 Feb. 2016- <\/strong>Tehran is in a position that it sees the United States as a \u201cpaper bear\u201d, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica has to forget about its being a half-superpower of the world,\u201d the Iranian commander said, Tasnim news agency reported February 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest achievement of the Islamic Revolution is to call the US the Great Satan,\u201d Jafari said.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from Tehran come the same way as Western media said US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is considering a proposal that could lead to potentially designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said several US government agencies have been consulted about such a proposal, which if implemented would add to measures the United States has already imposed on individuals and entities linked to the IRGC, Reuters said.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC is by far Iran\u2019s regime\u00a0most powerful security entity, which also has control over large stakes in Iran\u2019s economy and huge influence in its political system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Trend- Tehran, Iran, 8 Feb. 2016- Tehran is in a position that it sees the United States as a \u201cpaper bear\u201d, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/america-is-a-paper-bear-says-irgc\/\" title=\"America is a \u201cpaper bear\u201d, says IRGC\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009"}],"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=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7011,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}