{"id":93936,"date":"2020-01-03T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-military-kills-head-of-irans-irgc\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T04:02:31","slug":"u-s-military-kills-head-of-irans-irgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-military-kills-head-of-irans-irgc\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military kills head of Iran\u2019s IRGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"528\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/03\/\u0642\u0627\u0633\u0645-\u0633\u0644\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646\u06cc.jpg\" width=\"757\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; At the direction of the President Donald Trump, the U.S. military has killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, Pentagon said on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It added Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.&nbsp;&lsquo;General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more&rsquo;, read the statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It added he had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months &ndash; including the attack on December 27th &ndash; culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel.&nbsp;General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pentagon, this strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.&nbsp;The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran&#39;s Supreme Leader, has declared 3 days of mourning. In a series of tweets, he has warned &lsquo;&lsquo;severe revenge&rsquo; awaits the criminals who have stained their hands with his &amp; the other martyrs&rsquo; blood last night&rsquo;&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 At the direction of the President Donald Trump, the U.S. military has killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, Pentagon said on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}