{"id":53182,"date":"2014-07-05T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53182"},"modified":"2014-07-05T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:45:54","slug":"iran-pilot-killed-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53182","title":{"rendered":"Iran: pilot killed in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iranian-pilot-killed-fighting-iraq-state-media-102648954.html\">Associated Press<\/a> reports a rather sketchy story about what is being presented as the first Iranian casualty of the latest war in Iraq. It&#8217;s not clear if he was flying or fighting on the ground;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fars news agency appeared to confirm the IRNA report, publishing photos of a funeral service for the pilot on Friday in his home province of Fars, in southern Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Fars did not give any details, but hinted that Alamdari Mourjani was a member of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard, whose elite Quds Force is believed to be on the ground and assisting Iraqi forces, despite Tehran&#8217;s denials.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, the Iraqi defence ministry said it had taken delivery of five Sukhoi Su-25 warplanes and released video footage of them being unloaded from a cargo plane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Iran is mostly Shi&#8217;ite and the government has vowed to defend Shia holy sites from the Sunni &#8220;Islamic Nation&#8221;, formerly the ISIS, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports a rather sketchy story about what is being presented as the first Iranian &hellip; <a title=\"Iran: pilot killed in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53182\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran: pilot killed in Iraq<\/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-53182","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\/53182","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=53182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}