{"id":60137,"date":"2026-09-05T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-investigating-if-missile-hit-iran-wedding-vance-says\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:27:40","slug":"us-investigating-if-missile-hit-iran-wedding-vance-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-investigating-if-missile-hit-iran-wedding-vance-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what&#8217;s happened in the conflict thus far. So I&#8217;m extremely sceptical of this,&#8221; Vance told a White House briefing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know that we&#8217;re investigating.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran has launched fresh attacks on US bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in response to the alleged strike. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IRCS said 67 people were hurt when shrapnel from the missile hit a family wedding ceremony, killing at least four people. Iranian state media said a fifth person, a woman aged 22, had died in hospital shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four people killed were named locally as Zarkhatoon Taheri, 50; Kolsum Mallahi Nazhdnia, 43; Mohammad Mallahi, 16; and Amirali Karimi, four.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4zvk3z2k1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what&#8217;s happened in the conflict thus far. So I&#8217;m extremely sceptical of this,&#8221; Vance told a White House briefing. &#8220;I know that we&#8217;re investigating.&#8221; Iran has launched fresh attacks on US bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137","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=60137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60139,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions\/60139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}