{"id":7759,"date":"2023-12-14T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=7759"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:42:50","slug":"iran-us-faces-problems-with-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/iran-us-faces-problems-with-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: US faces \u201cProblems\u2019 with Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has warned that a planned United States-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face \u201cextraordinary problems\u201d.<br \/>\nAshtiani\u2019s comments came after the US said last week it was in talks with other countries to set up a task force following a spate of attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen on ships in the Red Sea, Iranian state media reported on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cIf they make such an irrational move, they will be faced with extraordinary problems,\u201d Ashtiani told the official Iranian Students\u2019 News Agency (ISNA).<br \/>\n\u201cNobody can make a move in a region where we have predominance,\u201d he said, referring to the Red Sea.<br \/>\nUS National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters last week that Washington was in talks with \u201cother countries\u201d over forming a \u201cmaritime task force \u2026 to ensure safe passage of ships in the Red Sea\u201d but did not give further details.<br \/>\nWashington\u2019s 12-nation coalition task force would reportedly involve warships from at least four countries\u2019 navies: the US, France, the United Kingdom and Israel.<br \/>\nWith a coalition, the number of warships would increase and they could attack targets inside Yemen like launch sites, command facilities and missile storage sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Iran\u2019s Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has warned that a planned United States-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face \u201cextraordinary problems\u201d. Ashtiani\u2019s comments came after the US said last week it was in talks with other countries to set up a task force following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7761,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759\/revisions\/7761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}