{"id":36824,"date":"2021-09-14T03:53:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-is-an-earthquake-for-middle-east"},"modified":"2021-09-14T03:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:53:28","slug":"taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-will-reshape-middle-east-official-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36824","title":{"rendered":"Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will reshape Middle East, official warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf states are having to reconsider their alliances and especially whether they can still trust the US, says senior source<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s takeover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanista<\/a>n is a shattering earthquake that will shape the Middle East for many years, a senior Gulf official has said, warning that \u2013 despite the group\u2019s promises of moderation \u2013 the militant group is \u201cessentially the same\u201d as last time it was in power.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official also said that the rapid and chaotic US withdrawal also raises serious questions for Gulf states about the value of US promises of security over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-is-an-earthquake-for-middle-east\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf states are having to reconsider their alliances and especially whether they can still trust the US, says senior sourceThe Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan is a shattering earthquake that will shape the Middle East for many years, a senior Gulf of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,50,319,448,447,1005,212,60,4,371,419,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-iran","category-islam","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-religion","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36825,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions\/36825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}