{"id":32786,"date":"2012-11-11T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32786"},"modified":"2012-11-11T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:28:50","slug":"heat-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32786","title":{"rendered":"Heat in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran warned the US that they intend to step up shooting at and missing our drones over international air space if it happens again, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/nov\/11\/iran-warns-us-over-drone-incident\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYes, we opened fire, and it was with warning shots. If they do it again, they can expect an even stronger response,\u201d said Gen. Amir-Ali Hadjizadeh, adding that the drone entered Iranian airspace and \u201chad to turn around because of the immediate reaction by fighters of the Revolutionary Guards.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John McCain questions the fact that the Administration took almost a week to disclose the details of the engagement;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. McCain drew parallels with the administration\u2019s slowness to answer congressional queries about the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/nov\/11\/israel-drawn-syria-fighting-first-time\/\">Israel fired back at Syria<\/a> went errant mortar rounds landed near an Israeli military base;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe understand this was a mistake and was not meant to target Israel, and then that is why we fired a warning shot in retaliation,\u201d said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman. Defense officials said an anti-tank missile was fired, and there were no reports of casualties in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military also said it filed a complaint through United Nations forces operating in the area, stating that \u201cfire emanating from Syria into Israel will not be tolerated and shall be responded to with severity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran warned the US that they intend to step up shooting at and missing our drones &hellip; <a title=\"Heat in the Middle East\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32786\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heat in the Middle East<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}