{"id":100429,"date":"2020-01-03T06:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/us-launched-baghdad-airstrike-that-killed-iranian-military-leader-qasem-soleimani"},"modified":"2020-01-03T06:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:42:43","slug":"us-launched-baghdad-airstrike-that-killed-iranian-military-leader-qasem-soleimani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/us-launched-baghdad-airstrike-that-killed-iranian-military-leader-qasem-soleimani","title":{"rendered":"US launched Baghdad airstrike that killed Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-launched-baghdad-airstrike-that-killed-iranian-military-leader-qasem-soleimani.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon launched an airstrike Thursday night that killed a powerful Iranian military leader, <a href=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2018\/07\/26\/after-trump-threats-iran-general-says-his-forces-ready-confront-u-s\/839964002\/ target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=|inline|intext|n\/a class=gnt_ar_b_a>Gen. Qasem Soleimani<\/a>, at Baghdad\u2019s international airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department said it conducted the attack at President Donald Trump\u2019s direction as a \u201cdefensive action\u201d against Soleimani, who it said was planning further attacks on American diplomats and service members.<\/p>\n<p>Soleimani is an extremely influential figure inside Iran, heading <a href=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2019\/04\/08\/trump-designates-irans-revolutionary-guards-corps-foreign-terror-group\/3397906002\/ target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=|inline|intext|n\/a class=gnt_ar_b_a>Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force<\/a>, part of the country\u2019s hard-line paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon launched an airstrike Thursday night that killed a powerful Iranian military leader, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, at Baghdad\u2019s international airport. The Defense Department said it conducted the attack at President Donald Trump\u2019s direction as a \u201cdefensive action\u201d against Soleimani, who it said was planning further attacks on American diplomats and service members. Soleimani is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}