{"id":310507,"date":"2020-01-15T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310507"},"modified":"2020-01-15T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:31:00","slug":"iran-says-it-has-made-arrests-over-plane-disaster-as-protests-rage-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-says-it-has-made-arrests-over-plane-disaster-as-protests-rage-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it has made arrests over plane disaster as protests rage on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested an undisclosed number of suspects accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, as anti-government demonstrations triggered by the disaster entered a fourth day.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752, killing all 176 people on board, has led to one of the greatest public challenges to Iran&#8217;s clerical rulers since they came to power in the Islamic Revolution of 1979.<\/p>\n<p>After days of denying blame, Iran acknowledged on Saturday it had shot the plane down during a state of high alert, hours after it had fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq to retaliate for the killing of Iran&#8217;s most powerful military commander.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters, with students at the forefront, have held demonstrations against the establishment since Saturday, some met by a violent police crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested an undisclosed number of suspects accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, as anti-government demonstrations triggered by the disaster entered a fourth day. Wednesday&#8217;s shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752, killing all 176 people on board, has led to one of the greatest public challenges to Iran&#8217;s clerical rulers since they came to power in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. After days of denying blame, Iran acknowledged on Saturday it had shot the plane down during a state of high alert, hours after it had fired missiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}