{"id":182815,"date":"2020-01-08T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=182815"},"modified":"2020-01-08T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:22:39","slug":"us-reacts-as-plane-crashes-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=182815","title":{"rendered":"US reacts as plane crashes in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The United States has expressed sadness over the crash of Ukrainian plane in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard went down near an airport in the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran\u2019s Imam Khomeini airport.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was reportedly en route to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is suspected to have been caused by mechanical issues.<\/p>\n<p>In its reaction, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said the world power was ready to assist in an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted: \u201cSaddened by the news of the crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752. I extend my deepest condolences to the families &amp; friends of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand ready to assist Ukraine in the aftermath of this tragic crash and call for full cooperation with any investigation.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has expressed sadness over the crash of Ukrainian plane in Iran. The Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard went down near an airport in the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday. The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran\u2019s Imam Khomeini airport. The plane was reportedly en route to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[1021,13945,3607],"class_list":["post-182815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-uk","tag-ukraine-kyiv","tag-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}