{"id":15870,"date":"2018-09-21T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15870"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T09:30:11","slug":"iran-launches-air-maneuvers-near-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15870","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches air maneuvers near Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1375536\/middle-east\" readability=\"40\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN, Iran: Iran\u2019s official IRNA news agency says the country\u2019s air force is carrying out a drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea.<br \/>Friday\u2019s report says the drill involves the military\u2019s and Revolutionary Guard fighter jets, including US-made F-4, French Mirage and Russian Sukhoi-22 planes. Five logistics and combat helicopters are also taking part in the exercise over the Arabian Gulf waters and the Sea of Oman.<br \/>It says the maneuver is a warning to Iran\u2019s enemies that they face a quick, \u201cstern response\u201d in case of force toward Iran.<br \/>The exercise is part of annual manifestations on the anniversary of the start of the eight-year war Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched against Iran in 1980.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran: Iran\u2019s official IRNA news agency says the country\u2019s air force is carrying out a drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea.Friday\u2019s report says the drill involves the military\u2019s and Revolutionary Guard fighter jets, including US-made F-4, French&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}