{"id":11541,"date":"2012-08-07T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2012-08-07T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:28:48","slug":"us-backed-syria-terrorist-group-murders-three-iranian-citizens-scores-more-held-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11541","title":{"rendered":"US backed Syria “terrorist group” murders Three Iranian Citizens – scores more held hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Iranians abducted by armed gangs in Syria killed<\/strong>
\nshiapost – 6 August, 2012 <\/p>\n

Three of the Iranian pilgrims, who were kidnapped by armed insurgents near the Syrian capital of Damascus, have been killed, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n

The so-called Free Syrian army has threatened to kill the rest of the pilgrims if the Syrian military does not stop attacking them.<\/p>\n

Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims, who were traveling on a bus from Damascus International Airport to the shrine of Hazrat Zainab (AS) on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, were abducted by insurgents on August 4.
\nThe insurgents who have abducted the Iranian pilgrims had claimed that the hostages are members of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) by simply referring to their military discharge cards.<\/p>\n

An informed official at Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Sunday vehemently dismissed the reports by certain Arabic-language news networks that the Iranian pilgrims were military members.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called his Turkish and Qatari counterparts Ahmet Davutoglu and Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabir Al Thani and asked for their assistance in securing the release of the hostages. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Three Iranians abducted by armed gangs in Syria killed shiapost – 6 August, 2012 Three of the Iranian pilgrims, who were kidnapped by armed insurgents near the Syrian capital of Damascus, have been killed, Reuters reports. The so-called Free Syrian army has threatened to kill the rest of the pilgrims if the Syrian military does more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3322],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11543,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions\/11543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}