{"id":31571,"date":"2026-06-13T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/?p=31571"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:18:09","slug":"iran-reports-blasts-air-defense-activity-after-us-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/?p=31571&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Iran reports blasts, air defense activity after US threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explosions were reported in the southern Iranian cities of Minab and Sirik, according to Mehr news agency. Air defense systems were also active in western Tehran. These reports emerge following a statement from United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who warned that Iran would be &#8216;hit with full force.&#8217; Hegseth&#8217;s threat echoes earlier remarks from US President Donald Trump, who on Wednesday claimed Washington had struck Iran &#8216;hard&#8217; the previous day and vowed further action. #Iran #USATensions #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #AirDefense #Minab #Sirik #Tehran #PeteHegseth #DonaldTrump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosions were reported in the southern Iranian cities of Minab and Sirik, according to Mehr news agency. Air defense systems were also active in western Tehran. These reports emerge following a statement from United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who warned that Iran would be &#8216;hit with full force.&#8217; Hegseth&#8217;s threat echoes earlier remarks from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fajr.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}