{"id":49898,"date":"2026-04-03T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/experts-dispute-us-account-of-deadly-lamerd-sports-hall-strike-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:44:15","slug":"experts-dispute-us-account-of-deadly-lamerd-sports-hall-strike-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/experts-dispute-us-account-of-deadly-lamerd-sports-hall-strike-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts dispute US account of deadly Lamerd sports hall strike in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Lamerd, a town in southern Iran, came under attack on 28 February. CCTV footage published by Iranian state media &#8211; which was authenticated and geolocated by BBC Verify &#8211; showed a munition moments before it exploded above a residential area. Experts identified it as likely being a US missile, based on its appearance, the size of the blast and the distance from potential US launch sites in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gx8e1x5j3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamerd, a town in southern Iran, came under attack on 28 February. CCTV footage published by Iranian state media &#8211; which was authenticated and geolocated by BBC Verify &#8211; showed a munition moments before it exploded above a residential area. Experts identified it as likely being a US missile, based on its appearance, the size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[966,980,976,2479,672,4228,14476,2107,839],"class_list":["post-49898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-account","tag-deadly","tag-dispute","tag-experts","tag-hall","tag-iran","tag-lamerd","tag-sports","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49900,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49898\/revisions\/49900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}