{"id":3138,"date":"2016-09-06T19:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/3138-britain-is-now-the-second-biggest-arms-dealer-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:25:55","slug":"britain-is-now-the-second-biggest-arms-dealer-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/3138-britain-is-now-the-second-biggest-arms-dealer-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world, official government figures show \u2013 with most of the weapons fuelling deadly conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world, official government figures show \u2013 with most of the weapons fuelling deadly conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">A full two-thirds of UK weapons over this period were sold to Middle Eastern countries, where instability has fed into increased risk of terror threats to Britain and across the West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cThe UK is one of the world\u2019s most successful defense exporters, averaging second place in the global rankings on a rolling ten-year basis, making it Europe\u2019s leading defense exporter in the period,\u201d the body boasted in a report released this summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Both the European Parliament and the House of Commons International Development Committee have called for exports to the autocracy to stop, but the Government blinds its eyes over the evidences of Saudi war crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world, official government figures show \u2013 with most of the weapons fuelling deadly conflicts in the Middle East. \u00a0 \u00a0 Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world, official government figures show \u2013 with most of the weapons fuelling deadly conflicts in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[121,38,307],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-britain","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-weapons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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