{"id":16285,"date":"2020-01-03T12:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=16285"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:26:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:26:23","slug":"iran-vows-severe-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/iran-vows-severe-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Vows &#8220;Severe Revenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A General in the Quds Force was killed by the USA in an airstrike at Baghdad&#8217;s international airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has vowed \u201csevere revenge\u201d for the killing. The Pentagon said &#8220;President Trump ordered the killing because the general was developing plans to attack Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The General has been named as Qasem Soleimani, and the US Embassy in Baghdad has urged American citizens to &#8220;depart Iraq immediately&#8221; following the strike.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"rtl\">\u062a\u0646\u0628\u064a\u0647 \u0623\u0645\u0646\u064a &#8211; \u0633\u0641\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0644\u0627\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0628\u063a\u062f\u0627\u062f\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u060c 3 \u0643\u0627\u0646\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0627\u0646\u064a  2020<br \/>Security Alert \u2013 U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Cd1N4x6b9\">https:\/\/t.co\/3Cd1N4x6b9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Embassy Baghdad (@USEmbBaghdad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEmbBaghdad\/status\/1213016084107923456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden described the attack as a &#8220;hugely escalatory move in an already dangerous region&#8221; and said President Donald Trump had &#8220;tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could be on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My statement on the killing of Qassem Soleimani. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Q9tlLAYFB\">pic.twitter.com\/4Q9tlLAYFB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1212954848666234880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A General in the Quds Force was killed by the USA in an airstrike at Baghdad&#8217;s international airport. 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The Pentagon said &#8220;President Trump ordered the killing because the general was developing plans to attack Americans.&#8221; The General has been named as Qasem Soleimani, and the US Embassy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":16286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,6,8],"tags":[1191,1791,71,179,156,1229],"class_list":["post-16285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-news","category-middle-east","category-us-canada-news","category-worldwide-news","tag-iran","tag-iran-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16287,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions\/16287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}