{"id":33319,"date":"2019-06-13T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=33319"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:17:12","slug":"sen-rand-paul-condemns-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-bahrain-and-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/sen-rand-paul-condemns-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-bahrain-and-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul Condemns Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul argues for stopping US arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/06\/13\/us-senate-upholds-arms-sales-to-bahrain-qatar\/\">the Senate voted down<\/a> bills to block these arm sales.   The bills were expected to pass, but following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/two-tankers-attacked-in-gulf-of-oman\/a-49170169\">unattributed attack<\/a> on two Oman oil tankers this morning, some senators switched sides to kill the bills.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g7jJWi521c0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul argues for stopping US arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar. Shortly after, the Senate voted down bills to block these arm sales. The bills were expected to pass, but following the unattributed attack on two Oman oil tankers this morning, some senators switched sides to kill the bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-33319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33321,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions\/33321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33319"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=33319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}