{"id":239575,"date":"2024-07-16T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=239575"},"modified":"2024-07-16T06:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:51:49","slug":"zionist-terrorism-prominent-syrian-businessman-assassinated-by-israeli-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=239575","title":{"rendered":"<h2>ZIONIST TERRORISM! Prominent Syrian Businessman Assassinated By Israeli Drone Strike<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A prominent Syrian businessman who has long been close to the government of Bashar al-Assad has been<strong>\u00a0killed by an Israeli drone near the border with Lebanon<\/strong>\u00a0on Monday, Lebanese media and the\u00a0<em>Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p>The man, Baraa Katerji, was traveling in his car near the Syrian-Lebanese border Monday evening when it was struck by a missile, instantly killing him and his bodyguard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/katerjifile.jpg?itok=g-rwAh3l\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0424bd59-4d1e-423e-b6f9-4de317569e08\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>President Bashar al-Assad and business tycoon Baraa Katerji<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was likely targeted due to his being\u00a0<strong>under US-led sanctions<\/strong>\u00a0and a facilitator of so-called &#8216;illicit&#8217; shipments of Iranian oil into Syria. Katerji oversaw a business empire based on oil, transport, logistics, and construction.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/prominent-syrian-businessman-assassinated-israeli-drone\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/prominent-syrian-businessman-assassinated-israeli-drone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}