{"id":3234,"date":"2020-01-12T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:11:18","slug":"protesters-in-iran-condemn-lies-on-downed-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2020\/01\/12\/protesters-in-iran-condemn-lies-on-downed-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters in Iran condemn &#8216;lies&#8217; on downed jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Iran&#8217;s capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials, calling them liars for having denied shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane.<\/p>\n<p>Protests took place outside at least two universities, with tear gas reportedly fired.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump tweeted support for the &#8220;inspiring&#8221; protests.<\/p>\n<p>Iran on Saturday admitted downing the jet &#8220;unintentionally&#8221;, three days after the crash that killed 176 people.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, en route to Kyiv, was shot down on Wednesday near Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran shortly after take-off, and only hours after Iran had fired missiles at two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Those attacks were Iran&#8217;s response to the US killing of senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on 3 January.<br \/>\nDozens of Iranians and Canadians, as well as nationals from Ukraine, the UK, Afghanistan, and Germany died on the plane.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: BBC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Iran&#8217;s capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials, calling them liars for having denied shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane. Protests took place outside at least two universities, with tear gas reportedly fired. US President Donald Trump tweeted support for the &#8220;inspiring&#8221; protests. Iran on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}