{"id":249146,"date":"2026-04-01T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249146"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:59:16","slug":"rubio-says-irans-leaders-believe-it-is-their-calling-and-their-purpose-in-life-to-usher-in-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249146\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio says Iran\u2019s leaders believe \u2018it is their calling and their purpose in life to usher in the end of the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that the United States may need to reexamine the value of NATO for the country, Fox News<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

“If we can’t use those bases when we need them, then NATO becomes a one-way street. Why are we in NATO if, in our time of need, we can’t use those bases?” Rubio stated.<\/p>\n

Referring to the Iranian leadership, the US secretary of state stated that “this is a regime led by people who believe it is their calling and their purpose in life to usher in the end of the world.<\/p>\n

“They were aiming to become the next North Korea — not a North Korea run by a regime that is troublesome and hard to understand, but an Iran run by radical Shia clerics with intercontinental missiles,” Rubio noted.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that the United States may need to reexamine the value of NATO for the country, Fox News writes. “If we can’t use those bases when we need them, then NATO becomes a one-way street. Why are we in NATO if, in our time of need, we can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249147,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249146\/revisions\/249147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}