{"id":3987,"date":"2020-12-26T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=143775"},"modified":"2020-12-26T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T19:28:13","slug":"snowstorms-in-iran-leave-10-climbers-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/26\/snowstorms-in-iran-leave-10-climbers-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowstorms In Iran Leave 10 Climbers Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/854D0273-12EC-4B47-96F0-CBFFEFD147F8_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Snowstorms in Iran have left at least 10 mountain climbers dead and several others missing.<\/p>\n<p>State television reported the deaths on December 26, following several days of heavy snow and high winds that left roads closed in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Local news reports indicated that the death toll could be higher, as several climbers who were in the mountains north of Tehran remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue efforts have been halted for the night but are expected to resume on December 27.<\/p>\n<p>The casualties led weather-forecasting authorities to criticize citizens&#8217; failure to heed their warnings against traveling to the mountains, where avalanches, a blizzard, and heavy snow have been reported.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With reporting by Reuters<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/26\/snowstorms-in-iran-leave-10-climbers-dead\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowstorms in Iran have left at least 10 mountain climbers dead and several others missing. State television reported the deaths on December 26, following several days of heavy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}