{"id":274673,"date":"2025-09-03T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-happened-to-musa-al-sadr-new-evidence-about-the-disappearance-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:05:14","slug":"what-happened-to-musa-al-sadr-new-evidence-about-the-disappearance-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-happened-to-musa-al-sadr-new-evidence-about-the-disappearance-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Musa al-Sadr? New evidence about the disappearance | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/q8JR9a-evEk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"What happened to Musa al-Sadr? 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