{"id":12916,"date":"2009-05-21T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/iran_announces_successful_missile_test\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T00:03:46","slug":"iran_announces_successful_missile_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12916","title":{"rendered":"Iran Announces Successful Missile Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that his country had successfully launched a medium-range missile, just two days after President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discussed the importance of halting Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The missile was test-fired in Semnan province, east of Tehran. Ahmadinejad visited the province Wednesday as part of a campaign tour in advance of national elections June 12.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-line Iranian leader told a crowd of several thousand that the missile &#8212; which according to previous descriptions by Iranian officials would be capable of striking Israel or U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf region &#8212; was an important scientific achievement. But he also described the launch in belligerent terms as a blow to those trying to thwart Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/20\/AR2009052000523_pf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that his country had successfully launched a medium-range missile, just two days after President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discussed the importance of halting Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions. The missile was test-fired in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12916\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,144,564,203,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}