{"id":316873,"date":"2026-03-01T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:38:08","slug":"report-former-iranian-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316873\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-dcc8cc80=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">According to Iranian reports, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed together with his bodyguard during an Israeli airstrike on the country, while under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-v-dcc8cc80=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Serving as Iran&#8217;s sixth president between 2005 and 2013, Ahmadinejad is remembered as one of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s most extreme and antisemitic voices. He was open about his aspiration to destroy Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-v-dcc8cc80=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">In 2009, his controversial reelection set off the largest protests in post-revolution Iran&#8217;s history until that point. The regime under his lead responded with a bloodbath, killing dozens and sending hundreds to prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Iranian reports, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed together with his bodyguard during an Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,87,46,114447,43,157487],"class_list":{"0":"post-316873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-roaring-lion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}