{"id":89638,"date":"2014-06-04T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=89638"},"modified":"2014-06-04T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:30:20","slug":"kerry-calls-syrian-presidential-vote-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=89638","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Calls Syrian Presidential Vote &#8216;Meaningless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jhon-kerry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-89636\" alt=\"\u0554\u0565\u0580\u056b\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jhon-kerry.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jhon-kerry.jpg 620w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jhon-kerry-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jhon-kerry-465x300.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Syria&#8217;s presidential elections this week were &#8220;a great big zero&#8221; that won&#8217;t change anything.<\/p>\n<p>He said Wednesday the vote was &#8220;meaningless, because you can&#8217;t have an election where millions of your people don&#8217;t even have an ability to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry, who spoke during a one-day visit to the Lebanese capital, insisted that after the Syrian election, &#8220;the conflict is the same, the terror is the same, the killing is the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Syrians in government-controlled areas voted Tuesday in a presidential poll all but guaranteed to hand President Bashar Assad another seven-year term. Voting did not take place in opposition-held areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Syria&#8217;s presidential elections this week were &#8220;a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,143,137],"tags":[8995,10829],"class_list":["post-89638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-kerry","tag-syrian-presidential-vote","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}