{"id":149755,"date":"2020-06-26T02:46:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/26\/iran-explosion-large-blast-seen-near-military-base-outside-tehran\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T02:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:46:52","slug":"iran-explosion-large-blast-seen-near-military-base-outside-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149755","title":{"rendered":"Iran explosion: large blast seen near military base outside Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage emerges of huge bright light illuminating sky over the capital, near a military site Iranian authorities are investigating a large explosion just east of the capital, Tehran, near a military base thought to have played a role in the country\u2019s past nuclear testing activities.Videos and pictures posted on social media that were picked up by local news outlets showed a bright light flaring out across the sky over the city early on Friday, followed by a large plume of smoke. Witnesses said the blast came from the direction of Parchin, a major military site. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/iran-authorities-investigate-large-explosion-near-tehran\" target=\"_blank\">Iran explosion: large blast seen near military base outside Tehran<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage emerges of huge bright light illuminating sky over the capital, near a military site Iranian authorities are investigating a large explosion just east of the capital, Tehran, near a military base thought to have played a role in the country\u2019s past nuclear testing activities.Videos and pictures posted on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}