{"id":228777,"date":"2021-03-02T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228777"},"modified":"2021-03-05T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:36:34","slug":"iranian-missiles-rain-down-on-us-base-in-iraq-following-soleimani-assassination-in-newly-declassified-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228777","title":{"rendered":"Iranian missiles rain down on US base in Iraq following Soleimani assassination in newly declassified VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">US soldiers clear rubble at the Ain al-Asad military airbase in Anbar province after the Iranian missile strike.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>News Brief \u2013 March 2, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4>Newly declassified footage show Iranian missiles striking a U.S. base in Iraq following the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.<\/h4>\n<h4>The missile strikes were seen as retaliation for Soleimani\u2019s assassination. Yet despite the obvious accuracy U.S. casualties were minimal.<\/h4>\n<h4>Did Iran secretly notify the U.S. in advance of the strikes so as to give its troops time to take shelter? Observers have noted that the U.S. didn\u2019t respond militarily to the strike. Was the Iranian warning meant the U.S. give the leeway so as to avoid the situation escalating uncontrollably?<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/516935-iranian-missiles-us-base-iraq\/video\/603dc40485f540048b53c3da\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released video shows Iranian missiles striking U.S. base in Iraq. Despite the accuracy of the strikes U.S. casualties were surprisingly low. Did Iran give the U.S. advance warning so its military personnel could take shelter? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":201288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Iraq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228782,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228777\/revisions\/228782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}