{"id":73776,"date":"2017-08-03T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73776"},"modified":"2017-08-03T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:14:56","slug":"quds-commander-boasts-of-us-troops-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73776","title":{"rendered":"Quds commander boasts of US troops killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ismail-Ghaani-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ismail-Ghaani-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ismail-Ghaani-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ismail-Ghaani-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ismail-Ghaani.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/aug\/2\/ismail-ghaani-iranian-general-boasts-of-quds-force\/\">Washington Times<\/a> reports that Iran&#8217;s Quds Force deputy commander, Brigadier General Ismail Ghaani bragged about killing US troops during their intervention in the Iraq War. Of course, this isn&#8217;t news, we&#8217;ve known all along that Iran supplied Shi&#8217;ite militiamen in Iraq with improved explosive devices with which they attacked US convoys and set ambushes against US troops, but this is the first time they&#8217;ve admitted to it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAmericans have suffered more losses from us then we have suffered losses from them,\u201d Gen. Ghaani said, according to an article by Admad Majidyar, director of the Iran Observed Project at the Middle East Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Majidyar wrote that the boasting came at a ceremony honoring the \u201cmartyred of the defenders of shrines\u201d \u2014 Iran\u2019s term for the militias it financed and trained in Iraq to fight the Islamic State and in Syria to support President Bashar Assad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Iranians worked closely with the militiamen fighting in the name of Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shia cleric who hid out in Tehran while his acolytes died in the streets. <\/p>\n<p>Ghanni looks very drone-worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Iran&#8217;s Quds Force deputy commander, Brigadier General Ismail Ghaani bragged about &hellip; <a title=\"Quds commander boasts of US troops killed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73776\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quds commander boasts of US troops killed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tuesdays-with-claymore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73776","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=73776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}