{"id":83548,"date":"2018-12-18T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83548"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:02","slug":"report-iranian-general-fatally-shoots-himself-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83548","title":{"rendered":"Report: Iranian general fatally shoots himself by accident."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-elm-loc=\"0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghodratollahmansouri.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-83549\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghodratollahmansouri.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghodratollahmansouri.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghodratollahmansouri.jpg?resize=500%2C282&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghodratollahmansouri.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"0\">What a tragic loss, I know many of you join me in sorrow over this.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"0\">TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 The website of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard is reporting that a general who fought in Syria and Iraq has allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri allegedly shot himself in the head by accident while cleaning his pistol, according to the Sunday report.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">The report added that Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a \u201cdefender of the shrine,\u201d a reference to Iranians who fight against the extremist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">Since 2014, Mansouri was a regional commander of the Guard\u2019s ground forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers east of the capital Tehran.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">Hundreds of Iranian forces have been killed fighting IS in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">Hearts and minds people, its all about winning their hearts and minds.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iranian-general-fatally-shoots-himself-by-accident\/2018\/12\/16\/e69fc182-0153-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html\">Report: Iranian general fatally shoots himself by accident &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a tragic loss, I know many of you join me in sorrow over this. TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 The website of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard is reporting that a general who fought in Syria and Iraq has allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun. Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri allegedly shot himself in the head by accident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-lJy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}