{"id":11013,"date":"2017-11-06T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:19:15","slug":"irgc-commander-hits-back-at-trump-for-anti-iran-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/irgc-commander-hits-back-at-trump-for-anti-iran-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC Commander Hits Back at Trump for Anti-Iran Allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"lead\">TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari dismissed as \u201cbaseless\u201d US President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that Tehran is responsible for a Yemeni missile launch against Riyadh.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>\u201cThe claim that the missile was delivered to Yemen by Iran is baseless,\u201d Major General Jafari told reporters on the sidelines of a memorial service held in Tehran on Sunday for the late father of senior Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations are unfounded because, basically, the Islamic Republic does not have access to Yemen to transfer such missiles, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese missiles have been manufactured by the Yemenis and their military industries,\u201d the commander stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Saturday, a Riyadh-based media outlet reported that Saudi Arabia\u2019s air force had intercepted a ballistic missile that had been launched from Yemen over the Saudi capital.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, responding to the attack, expressed his support for the Saudi-led coalition and put the blame on Iran, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni ballistic missile attack came in retaliation for the continued massacre of civilians and destruction of Yemen\u2019s infrastructure by the coalition led by the Riyadh regime.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than two years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.<\/p>\n<p>Over 12,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari dismissed as \u201cbaseless\u201d US President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that Tehran is responsible for a Yemeni missile launch against Riyadh. \u201cThe claim that the missile was delivered to Yemen by Iran is baseless,\u201d Major General Jafari told reporters on the sidelines of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}