{"id":24599,"date":"2026-08-22T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24599"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:21:11","slug":"trump-says-iran-could-be-bombed-a-little-bit-more-as-us-shifts-to-economic-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24599","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran could be bombed \u2018a little bit more\u2019 as US shifts to economic crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>An Iranian Shiite cleric said the smell of &#8220;burned flesh&#8221; still lingers near the compound of Iran&#8217;s late supreme leader, according to video circulated by Iranian media and shared Friday by Iran International.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;Someone told me that when you go near the Supreme Leader\u2019s compound, you can still smell burned flesh. I went there myself and found it was true \u2014 you can still smell burned flesh,&#8221; the cleric told a nighttime gathering of Islamic Republic supporters in Tehran&#8217;s Tajrish Square.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The cleric also disputed previous accounts of the scale of the attack on the compound.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cOur leader had a frail body, but contrary to reports that seven or eight bombs were dropped on the site, they hit the Supreme Leader\u2019s compound with 110 bombs and missiles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Iran International did not identify the cleric in its X post or provide independent confirmation of his account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian Shiite cleric said the smell of &#8220;burned flesh&#8221; still lingers near the compound&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}