{"id":33509,"date":"2014-12-03T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33509"},"modified":"2014-12-03T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T10:40:13","slug":"yemen-car-bomb-near-home-of-iranian-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/03\/yemen-car-bomb-near-home-of-iranian-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen: Car bomb near home of Iranian ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10573\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sanaa-Yemen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10573\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sanaa-Yemen.jpg\" alt=\"Sanaa, Yemen. (Sunsinger \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sanaa-Yemen.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sanaa-Yemen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanaa, Yemen. (Sunsinger \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SANAA, Yemen &#8212; A massive car bomb exploded Wednesday morning in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, apparently targeting the home of the Iranian ambassador, Yemeni security officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The blast heavily damaged several buildings in the area. At least two people were killed, both security guards at the ambassador&#8217;s residence, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief the media.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s ambassador to Yemen, Hossein Niknam, is new to the post and presented his credentials to the Yemeni Foreign Ministry within the last week, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that the ambassador was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sanaa explosion didn&#8217;t harm any Iranian diplomats. Only material damage was inflicted,&#8221; Tasnim quoted Abdollahian as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA, Yemen &#8212; A massive car bomb exploded Wednesday morning in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, apparently targeting the home of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-ahmed-al-haj","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}