{"id":40933,"date":"2019-09-23T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40933"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:22:43","slug":"iran-commemorates-war-with-parade-of-tanks-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40933","title":{"rendered":"Iran commemorates war with parade of tanks, missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH:\u00a0As Saudi Arabia prepared to celebrate its National Day with entertainment events, firework displays and cultural events, Iran staged a military parade in Tehran on Sunday with tanks, missiles and armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Hassan Rouhani and Iranian military leaders saluted as ranks of soldiers marched past them in tight unison, followed by an array of military hardware.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong the weapons on display in the parade, held to mark the anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, was an upgraded warhead for the Khorramshahr ballistic missile, said to have a range of 2,000km, and the Kaman 12 drone with a range of 1,000km. Speedboats and warships were shown in video footage on state TV.<\/p>\n<p>\nSaudi Arabia and the US have accused Iran of a Sept. 14 drone and missile attack on oil facilities in the east of the Kingdom. After the attack the Pentagon ordered US troops to reinforce Saudi air and missile defenses.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a speech at Monday\u2019s parade, Rouhani denounced the US presence. \u201cForeign forces can cause problems and insecurity for our people and for our region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf they\u2019re sincere, then they should not make our region the site of an arms race.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cTheir presence has always brought pain and misery &#8230; the farther they keep themselves from our region and our nations, the more security there will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US aims to avoid war with Iran and the additional troops are for \u201cdeterrence and defense,\u201d US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf that deterrence should continue to fail, I am also confident that President Trump would continue to take the actions that are necessary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH:\u00a0As Saudi Arabia prepared to celebrate its National Day with entertainment events, firework displays and cultural events, Iran staged a military parade in Tehran on Sunday with tanks, missiles and armored vehicles. President Hassan Rouhani and Iranian military leaders saluted as ranks of soldiers marched past them in tight unison, followed by an array of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40933","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\/40933","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=40933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}