{"id":98408,"date":"2019-06-21T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/21\/trump-says-he-stopped-airstrike-on-iran-because-150-would-die\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:41:07","slug":"trump-says-he-stopped-airstrike-on-iran-because-150-would-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98408","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he stopped airstrike on Iran because 150 would die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president tweets that he intervened 10 minutes before planned retaliatory attackDonald Trump has said he cancelled an airstrike on Iran with 10 minutes to go because it would not have been proportionate to have killed 150 people in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned US drone.\u201cWe were cocked &amp; loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die,\u201d the US president tweeted on Friday. \u201c150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not \u2026 proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/21\/donald-trump-retaliatory-iran-airstrike-cancelled-10-minutes-before\" target=\"_blank\">Trump says he stopped airstrike on Iran because 150 would die<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president tweets that he intervened 10 minutes before planned retaliatory attackDonald Trump has said he cancelled an airstrike on Iran with 10 minutes to go because it would not have been proportionate to have killed 150 people in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned US drone.\u201cWe were cocked [&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-98408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98408","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=98408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}