{"id":110414,"date":"2020-07-24T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/iran-renews-threat-of-counter-blow-against-u-s-for-soleimani-killing"},"modified":"2020-08-03T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:48:00","slug":"iran-renews-threat-of-counter-blow-against-u-s-for-soleimani-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/iran-renews-threat-of-counter-blow-against-u-s-for-soleimani-killing","title":{"rendered":"Iran renews threat of \u201ccounter blow\u201d against U.S. for Soleimani killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iran-renews-threat-of-counter-blow-against-u-s-for-soleimani-killing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khamenei said Tehran expects Beghdad to follow through on expelling American forces, claiming their presence \u201cbegets insecurity.\u201d He added that while the U.S. seeks to undermine Iran-Iraq ties, Washington \u201cshould not be feared at all because it cannot do a damn thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iraqis have also demanded the departure of U.S. forces from the country, and in December\u2014alongside Iranian-backed militias\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/whats-happening-iraq-us-iran-conflict-1480119\" target=\"_blank\">stormed and ransacked<\/a> the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>After Soleimani\u2019s death, Iraqi lawmakers backed a non-binding resolution calling on the government to expel U.S. troops from the country, though the vote was boycotted by most Sunni and Kurdish politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khamenei said Tehran expects Beghdad to follow through on expelling American forces, claiming their presence \u201cbegets insecurity.\u201d He added that while the U.S. seeks to undermine Iran-Iraq ties, Washington \u201cshould not be feared at all because it cannot do a damn thing.\u201d Iraqis have also demanded the departure of U.S. forces from the country, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110414","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110781,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110414\/revisions\/110781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}