{"id":225673,"date":"2026-01-14T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=225673"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:21:02","slug":"iran-warns-neighbors-it-will-hit-american-bases-in-case-of-us-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/225673\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns neighbors it will hit American bases in case of US strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Tehran has warned neighbors hosting U.S. troops that it would hit American bases if Washington strikes, a senior Iranian official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/death-toll-iran-approaches-2600-rights-group-reports-2026-01-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some personnel have been advised to leave the U.S. military&rsquo;s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar &mdash; one of the main U.S. air bases in the region &mdash; by Wednesday evening, three diplomats told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomats said, however, that there were still no signs of the large-scale troop withdrawal seen hours before the Iranian missile attack last year.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, an American human rights group reported that about 2,600 people were killed during anti-government protests in Iran. Reza Pahlavi, a descendant of the last Shah of Iran, reported that the death toll was more than 12,000.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters notes that the main U.S. bases in the Middle East are located in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>To remind, Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene in support of protesters in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran has warned neighbors hosting U.S. troops that it would hit American bases if Washington strikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. Some personnel have been advised to leave the U.S. military&rsquo;s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar &mdash; one of the main U.S. air bases in the region &mdash; by Wednesday evening, three diplomats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":225667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225677,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225673\/revisions\/225677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}