{"id":2745,"date":"2010-08-15T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2010-08-15T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:00:18","slug":"iran-offered-to-fund-1970s-rail-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/iran-offered-to-fund-1970s-rail-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran offered to fund 1970s rail project"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Although relations between Iran and the Soviet Union are at present friendly [&#8230;] the opportunities for the Russians to make difficulties through Kabul are thus abundant, though Kabul&#8217;s rulers would have to forego the $2,00m (\u00a31,111m) which the Shah has offered for the building of Afghanistan&#8217;s first railway line. <\/p>\n<p><cite>Hostile neighbours fuel Shah&#8217;s defence fears,  David Watts, The Times, 22 May 1978, p5 (Issue 60307; col D)<\/cite><br \/>\n.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although relations between Iran and the Soviet Union are at present friendly [&#8230;] the opportunities for the Russians to make difficulties through Kabul are thus abundant, though Kabul&#8217;s rulers would have to forego the $2,00m (\u00a31,111m) which the Shah has offered for the building of Afghanistan&#8217;s first railway line. Hostile neighbours fuel Shah&#8217;s defence fears, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[85,175],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-iran","tag-the-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}