{"id":185208,"date":"2026-05-06T10:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:17:40","slug":"fire-at-a-shopping-center-in-iran-kills-8-people-and-injures-dozens-ap-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185208\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at a shopping center in Iran kills 8 people and injures dozens | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 A fire in a shopping center near Iran&#8217;s capital killed eight people and injured 40, Tehran\u2019s emergency service department said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started Tuesday in the Arghavan shopping center in Andisheh town in Tehran province. It was not clear what caused the blaze. Iran&#8217;s state television IRIB said authorities were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed firefighters battling the flames as large plumes of black smoke billowed from the multistory building.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication the blaze was linked to the U.S. war against Iran. A shaky ceasefire with the United States has been holding for around three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 A fire in a shopping center near Iran&#8217;s capital killed eight people and injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[79618,153,155,154,60,35,38,82641,59042,17767,301],"class_list":["post-185208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-iran-shopping-center-fire","tag-iran-war","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}