{"id":1947,"date":"2015-04-20T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-04-20T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T09:11:02","slug":"egypts-president-sisi-meets-cia-director-john-brennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/egypts-president-sisi-meets-cia-director-john-brennan\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s President Sisi meets CIA director John Brennan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has held talks with CIA Director John Brennan<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>amid Cairo\u2019s heavy-handed clampdown on opponents of the country\u2019s military-backed\u00a0government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement released by the Egyptian government, Sisi and Brennan discussed regional issues, terrorism and &#8220;ways of enhancing bilateral relations&#8221; in their Sunday meeting in the Egyptian capital\u00a0Cairo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two sides agreed to continue &#8220;consultation and coordination on issues of mutual interest,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announced visit by the CIA chief to the North African country came less than two weeks after the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced plans to sell air-to-surface missiles worth of $57 million to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt\u2019s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted in July 2013 in a military coup led by Sisi, the then army commander.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since Morsi\u2019s ouster, Egypt has been the scene of massive anti-government protests, with continuous clashes between security forces and the supporters of the former president, backed by the\u00a0Muslim Brotherhood movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new rulers in Egypt have come under pressure from human rights groups over their harsh crackdown on Brotherhood members and supporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Egyptian administration&#8217;s\u00a0suppression\u00a0has led to the deaths of more than 1,400 people and the arrest of 22,000 others, including some 200 people who have been sentenced to death in mass trials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Egypt\u2019s former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, and a few of his senior officials have been acquitted of all charges leveled against them over the killing of protesters in the country\u2019s 2011 revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SSM\/NT\/AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has held talks with CIA Director John Brennan\u00a0amid Cairo\u2019s heavy-handed clampdown on opponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1,125],"tags":[131,78,356,7],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-united-states","tag-cia","tag-egypt","tag-middle-east","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sisi-John-Brennan.jpg?fit=650%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}