{"id":6208,"date":"2024-01-04T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:00:14","slug":"iran-kerman-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/01\/04\/iran-kerman-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Kerman Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-67872281\">BBC News, Iran leader vows harsh response to deadly bombings that killed 84, 4 Jan 2024<\/a>. &#8220;Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed a &#8220;harsh response&#8221; to a bomb attack on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani&#8217;s assassination by the US.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twin explosions in Iran on Wednesday killed dozens of people near the tomb of Revolutionary Guards general Qassem Soleimani, on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the U.S. Iranian historian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arash_tehran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@arash_tehran<\/a> lays out what we know so far and who could be behind the attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WF5666aC3k\">pic.twitter.com\/WF5666aC3k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Democracy Now! (@democracynow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/democracynow\/status\/1742901289913114846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least 100 people were killed by an explosion on Wednesday near the tomb of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the former leader of Iran\u2019s Quds Force who was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike exactly four years ago, in what Iranian officials are calling a terrorist attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H04q7vHu8n\">pic.twitter.com\/H04q7vHu8n<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1742592653672227090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News, Iran leader vows harsh response to deadly bombings that killed 84, 4 Jan 2024. &#8220;Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed a &#8220;harsh response&#8221; to a bomb attack on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani&#8217;s assassination by the US.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-iran-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}