{"id":239547,"date":"2026-03-01T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=239547"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:51:24","slug":"iran-sees-retaliation-for-khameneis-killing-as-its-duty-pezeshkian-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/239547\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sees retaliation for Khamenei\u2019s killing as its duty, Pezeshkian says"},"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>Iran considers it both its duty and legal right to seek revenge for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/26597655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its duty and legal right to punish those responsible for this crime,&rdquo; Pezeshkian said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the president, the assassination of Iran&rsquo;s supreme leader and a prominent Shiite figure constitutes &ldquo;an open declaration of war&rdquo; against Muslims, particularly Shiites worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran considers it both its duty and legal right to seek revenge for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, according to TASS. &ldquo;The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its duty and legal right to punish those responsible for this crime,&rdquo; Pezeshkian said. According to the president, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":239234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239547","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=239547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239548,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239547\/revisions\/239548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}