{"id":205,"date":"2008-01-14T22:47:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/2008\/01\/14\/iran-iraq-link\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:41","slug":"iran-iraq-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/iran-iraq-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran &#8211; Iraq link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Railways Africa<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/railwaysafrica.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2095\">reports<\/a> that a 15km line between Khorramshahr and Shalamcheh is nearing completion<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMonday, 07 January 2008<br \/>\nAccording to an Iraqi transportation ministry announcement, the Baghdad government &#8220;\u2019strongly supports&#8221; the implementation of a proposed rail project linking Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Alam TV network quoted Iraq Railways Javad Al-Khorrasan saying: &#8220;During the first phase of the project, a railway will cross from Basra and head to Iran via Shalamcheh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of a second plan, a line is envisaged from Baghdad via the north west of Iraq to Monzariyah and thence into Iran.<br \/>\n&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railways Africa reports that a 15km line between Khorramshahr and Shalamcheh is nearing completion Monday, 07 January 2008 According to an Iraqi transportation ministry announcement, the Baghdad government &#8220;\u2019strongly supports&#8221; the implementation of a proposed rail project linking Iran and Iraq. The Al-Alam TV network quoted Iraq Railways Javad Al-Khorrasan saying: &#8220;During the first phase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[20,36,37,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}