{"id":61075,"date":"2012-12-16T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=61075"},"modified":"2012-12-16T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T22:00:56","slug":"patriot-missiles-in-turkey-threaten-world-war-iran-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/12\/16\/patriot-missiles-in-turkey-threaten-world-war-iran-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot missiles in Turkey threaten &#8220;world war:&#8221; Iran army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patriot missiles in Turkey threaten &#8220;world war:&#8221; Iran army chief<\/p>\n<p>DEBKAfile December 15, 2012, 6:58 PM (GMT+02:00)<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s chief of staff Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said Saturday that deploying NATO Patriot missiles along Turkey\u2019s border with Syria could lead to a &#8220;world war&#8221; that would threaten Europe as well. Turkey asked NATO for the Patriot systemto help bolster its border security after repeated episodes of gunfire from war-torn Syria spilling into Turkish territory. &#8220;Each one of these Patriots is a black mark on the world map, and is meant to cause a world war,&#8221; Firouzabadi said, according to the Iranian Students&#8217; News Agency. &#8220;They are making plans for a world war, and this is very dangerous for the future of humanity and for the future of Europe itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order to send two Patriot missile batteries to Turkey along with 400 US crew personnel.<\/p>\n<p>via Patriot missiles in Turkey threaten &#8220;world war:&#8221; Iran army chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriot missiles in Turkey threaten &#8220;world war:&#8221; Iran army chief DEBKAfile December 15, 2012, 6:58 PM (GMT+02:00) Iran\u2019s chief of staff Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said Saturday that deploying NATO Patriot missiles along Turkey\u2019s border with Syria could lead to a &#8220;world war&#8221; that would threaten Europe as well. Turkey asked NATO for the Patriot systemto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[8629],"class_list":["post-61075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","tag-world-war-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}