{"id":3523,"date":"2018-05-17T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2018-05-17T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:07:25","slug":"why-iran-and-israel-are-clashing-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/17\/why-iran-and-israel-are-clashing-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY IRAN AND ISRAEL ARE CLASHING IN SYRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2804\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-560x336.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-260x156.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY-160x96.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/ISRAELI-ARMY.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NY Times<\/p>\n<p>By Sewell Chan<\/p>\n<p>A simmering conflict between Israel and Iran escalated overnight when Israeli jets struck dozens of Iranian targets in neighboring Syria. The strikes came after what the Israeli military described as an Iranian rocket attack against its forces in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis said it was Iran\u2019s first direct rocket attack against Israeli targets.<\/p>\n<p>By Thursday morning, the Israeli Air Force had destroyed \u201cnearly all\u201d of Iran\u2019s military infrastructure in Syria, according to Israel\u2019s defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/10\/world\/middleeast\/israel-iran-syria-explainer.html?mc=adintl&amp;mcid=facebook&amp;mccr=mc12&amp;ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&amp;subid1=TAFI&amp;dclid=CMzd9a7gjdsCFc2Ydwod0F4OSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: NY Times By Sewell Chan A simmering conflict between Israel and Iran escalated overnight when Israeli jets struck dozens of Iranian targets in neighboring Syria. The strikes came after what the Israeli military described as an Iranian rocket attack against its forces in the Golan Heights. The Israelis said it was Iran\u2019s first direct&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/17\/why-iran-and-israel-are-clashing-in-syria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHY IRAN AND ISRAEL ARE CLASHING IN SYRIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[178,467],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-iran","tag-israel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}