{"id":10825,"date":"2022-07-02T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2022-07-02T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T14:02:12","slug":"border-tensions-with-iran-leaves-traders-and-transporters-in-nimroz-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/07\/border-tensions-with-iran-leaves-traders-and-transporters-in-nimroz-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Border tensions with Iran leaves traders and transporters in Nimroz concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NIMROZ (SW) &#8211; Tension at the border between Afghanistan and Iran has left traders and transporters in Nimroz concerned.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the tensions between the border guards of Iran and Afghanistan in the border areas of Nimroz Province, the &#8220;Silk Bridge&#8221; crossing has been closed for more than a week. A number of passengers and drivers say that the prolonged blocking of this road has caused them to suffer.<\/p>\n<p>Shir Ahmad, one of the drivers of the Silk Bridge crossing, said the transit road&#8217;s closure has affected their livlihoodd. &#8220;We ask the authorities of the Islamic Emirate to follow up on this matter and solve the problem of our drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Expressing concern, passengers of this route say that they have been waiting for days for the opening of this crossing.<\/p>\n<p>However, Habibullah Elham, head of information and culture of Nimroz, says that they are trying to open this crossing as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Silk Bridge crossing has been closed to the movement of people and commercial goods as a result of tension and subsequent shooting between Iranian and Afghan border guards. An Iranian border guard and an Afghan child were killed and two children were injured in these clashes.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMROZ (SW) &#8211; Tension at the border between Afghanistan and Iran has left traders and transporters in Nimroz concerned.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,233,5,8,4,6],"tags":[12,66,254],"class_list":["post-10825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-iran","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-iran","tag-nimroz"],"views":375,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}