{"id":89401,"date":"2014-06-03T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=89401"},"modified":"2014-06-03T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:23:35","slug":"apocalypse-tehran-moment-iranian-capital-was-hit-by-150kmh-dust-wall-which-blacked-out-sun-killed-five-and-injured-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=89401","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Tehran: Moment Iranian capital was hit by 150km\/h dust wall which blacked out sun, killed five and injured 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Iranian-Tehran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-89399\" alt=\"\u0569\u0565\u0570\u0580\u0561\u0576, \u0583\u0578\u0569\u0578\u0580\u056b\u056f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Iranian-Tehran.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Iranian-Tehran.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Iranian-Tehran-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Iranian-Tehran-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These astonishing photographs show the apocalyptic scene of an 80mph dust storm which killed five people and injured 30 more.<\/p>\n<p>The storm struck yesterday in Iran&#8217;s capital Tehran, blacking out the sun in a swirling cloud for several minutes and tearing down trees.<\/p>\n<p>It also caused a chain-reaction crash involving 20 vehicles on a highway south of the capital &#8211; and international flights were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Children and the elderly, as well as those with heart problems, were told to remain indoors &#8211; but some 50,000 homes suffered power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>While sandstorms are common in many parts of the Middle East, &#8216;haboob&#8217; storms like yesterday&#8217;s are unusual in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These astonishing photographs show the apocalyptic scene of an 80mph dust storm which killed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[10783],"class_list":["post-89401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","tag-apocalypse-tehran","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}