{"id":93367,"date":"2026-05-01T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93367\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:44:08","slug":"grenade-attack-near-syrian-capital-kills-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93367\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenade attack near Syrian capital kills preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A preacher at a mosque was killed on Friday in a grenade explosion south of Damascus. <\/p>\n<p>The preacher, who served at the Sayyida Zaynab Mosque in the city of the same name, a satellite city some 10 km (6.2 miles) south of Damascus, was identified as Farhan al-Mansour, according to Syria Alikhbaria TV, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a security source told the channel that Interior Ministry forces were deployed to secure the site of the blast and prevent civilians from approaching.<\/p>\n<p>Specialized teams have launched an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent reports clarified that the blast was caused by a grenade thrown at a civilian vehicle, not an improvised explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>No group had claimed responsibility for the incident as of 1500GMT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A preacher at a mosque was killed on Friday in a grenade explosion south of Damascus. The preacher,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[670,1985,32922,32921,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-93367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-damascus","9":"tag-explosion","10":"tag-grenade-attack","11":"tag-preacher","12":"tag-syria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116501037884035734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}