{"id":25678,"date":"2020-01-02T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25678"},"modified":"2020-01-02T21:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:43:55","slug":"25678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25678","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2049534\/statement-by-the-department-of-defense\/\">Statement by the Department of Defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iran forgot that Barack Hussein Obammy is no longer President.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.<\/p>\n<p>General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.\u00a0General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.\u00a0He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months \u2013 including the attack on December 27th \u2013 culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel.\u00a0General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.<\/p>\n<p>This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.\u00a0The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by the Department of Defense Iran forgot that Barack Hussein Obammy is no longer President. At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. General Soleimani &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harsh-but-true","category-military","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25698,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions\/25698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}