{"id":318462,"date":"2020-01-03T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318462"},"modified":"2020-01-03T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:50:12","slug":"iranian-military-commander-killed-in-airstrike-at-baghdad-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/iranian-military-commander-killed-in-airstrike-at-baghdad-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian military commander killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318463 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/qassem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/qassem.jpg 544w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/qassem-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/>General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force was killed, following an airstrike at Baghdad&#8217;s international airport early Friday, the officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq&#8217;s Hashed al-Shaabi military force, the officials added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF)\u00a0blamed the United States for an attack at Baghdad Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security sources said the rockets destroyed two vehicles carrying high profile guests, who had arrived at the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A security official confirmed that eight people including important figures were killed in the attack on an airport, describing it as an airstrike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deaths are a major turning point in Iraq and the entire Middle East, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force was killed, following an airstrike at Baghdad&#8217;s international airport early Friday, the officials said. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq&#8217;s Hashed al-Shaabi military force, the officials added. The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF)\u00a0blamed the United States for an attack at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12289,12288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318464,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318462\/revisions\/318464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}