{"id":21885,"date":"2020-08-18T05:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/17\/iran-bounties-us-troops-afghanistan-taliban"},"modified":"2020-08-18T05:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:18:25","slug":"iran-reportedly-paid-bounties-to-afghan-group-for-attacks-on-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21885","title":{"rendered":"Iran reportedly paid bounties to Afghan group for attacks on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Haqqani network responsible for six attacks, CNN reports<\/li>\n<li>Pentagon refrained from retaliation in bid to save peace deal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran is reported to have paid bounties to a Taliban faction for killing US and coalition troops in Afghanistan, leading to six attacks last year including a suicide bombing at the US airbase in Bagram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/17\/politics\/iran-taliban-bounties-us-intelligence\/index.html\">According to CNN<\/a>, US intelligence assessed that Iran paid the bounties to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/sep\/07\/haqqani-network-blacklisted-terrorist-us\">Haqqani network<\/a>, for the Bagram attack on 11 December, which killed two civilians and injured more than 70 others, including two Americans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/17\/iran-bounties-us-troops-afghanistan-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haqqani network responsible for six attacks, CNN reportsPentagon refrained from retaliation in bid to save peace dealIran is reported to have paid bounties to a Taliban faction for killing US and coalition troops in Afghanistan, leading to six attacks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,448,419,61,473,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-iran","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21885\/revisions\/21886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}