{"id":29405,"date":"2021-03-07T21:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/07\/myanmar-hires-pr-agent-to-explain-real-situation-to-western-leaders"},"modified":"2021-03-07T21:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:13:37","slug":"myanmar-military-hires-pr-agent-to-explain-real-situation-to-west-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29405","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military hires PR agent to explain &#8216;real situation&#8217; to west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli spy says generals have been \u2018misunderstood\u2019 as police continue to fire on protesters<\/p>\n<p>Accused of crimes against humanity, an illegal government takeover and gunning down protesters, Myanmar\u2019s military is seeking to rebrand itself in foreign capitals, recruiting a former Israeli military intelligence official turned lobbyist with a record defending controversial clients.<\/p>\n<p>Ari Ben-Menashe, a Tehran-born, Israeli-Canadian lobbyist, was hired by the Tatmadaw this week to \u201cassist in explaining the real situation in the country\u201d, according to a consultancy agreement reported by Foreign Lobby, an outlet that tracks foreign government influence operations in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/07\/myanmar-hires-pr-agent-to-explain-real-situation-to-western-leaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli spy says generals have been \u2018misunderstood\u2019 as police continue to fire on protestersAccused of crimes against humanity, an illegal government takeover and gunning down protesters, Myanmar\u2019s military is seeking to rebrand itself in foreig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions\/29407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}