{"id":16014,"date":"2020-01-03T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=16014"},"modified":"2020-01-03T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:17:13","slug":"how-was-qasim-soleimani-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/01\/03\/how-was-qasim-soleimani-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"How was Qasim Soleimani assassinated?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump ordered for the US airstrike in Iraq that killed General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guards, in a &#8220;decisive defensive action&#8221; to protect US personnel abroad and deter future attacks being planned by Iran, the Pentagon said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss Charge affairs to Tehran, the US interest section in Iran, to convey protest the US terrorist act in martyring the glorious IRGC commander Qasem Soleiman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media reported that the Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier General Esmail Qaani (Ghaani) as commander of Qods force less than 12 hours after the killing of Qassem Soleimani<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States of America has called on its citizens to leave Iraq immediately, after Qassem Soleimani was killed in a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian media reported that the death toll in the American attack reached 12 people, including Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump ordered for the US airstrike in Iraq that killed General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guards, in a &#8220;decisive defensive action&#8221; to protect US personnel abroad and deter future attacks being planned by Iran, the Pentagon said Friday. Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss Charge affairs to Tehran, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16016,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions\/16016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}