{"id":4889,"date":"2020-01-04T06:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2020-01-04T06:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:43:31","slug":"world-leaders-largely-condemn-the-deadly-us-drone-strike-on-an-iranian-general-as-a-dangerous-escalation-while-the-un-says-the-move-is-likely-unlawful-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/04\/world-leaders-largely-condemn-the-deadly-us-drone-strike-on-an-iranian-general-as-a-dangerous-escalation-while-the-un-says-the-move-is-likely-unlawful-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"World leaders largely condemn the deadly US drone strike on an Iranian general as a &#8216;dangerous escalation,&#8217; while the UN says the move is likely unlawful | Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A host of world leaders, including from Russia, Turkey, and several European countries, condemned the US drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful leader of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard, late Thursday. Iranian leaders promised \u201cforceful revenge\u201d against the US, and Iraqi leaders said the strike violated the country\u2019s sovereignty and international laws. The United Nations\u2019 special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings said the attack \u201cmost likely\u201d violated international law in part because the US hadn\u2019t faced an \u201cimminent threat\u201d and the strike killed at least six other people. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long treated Iran as an existential threat to Israel, praised President Donald Trump\u2019s move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/world-leaders-condemn-deadly-us-drone-strike-on-the-iranian-general-2020-1\">World leaders largely condemn the deadly US drone strike on an Iranian general as a &#8216;dangerous escalation,&#8217; while the UN says the move is likely unlawful | Business Insider<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A host of world leaders, including from Russia, Turkey, and several European countries, condemned the US drone strike that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}