{"id":10884,"date":"2022-07-06T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:18:30","slug":"the-silk-bridge-border-crossing-with-iran-temporarily-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/07\/the-silk-bridge-border-crossing-with-iran-temporarily-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Silk Bridge&#8221; border crossing with Iran temporarily opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NIMROZ (SW) &#8211; The &#8220;Silk Bridge&#8221; border crossing with Iran has been temporarily opened, confirmed an official statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The press office of Nimroz Province has announced that the &#8220;Silk Bridge&#8221; crossing between Iran and Afghanistan has been temporarily opened for passengers and transit vehicles this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The newsletter stated that travelers who have legal documents and transit vehicles located on both sides of the border can travel until 9:00 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>In the newsletter, it is emphasized that passengers and transit vehicles cannot pass through smuggling and irregular remote routes.<\/p>\n<p>Following the tensions between the border guards of Iran and Afghanistan in the border areas of Nimroz Province, the \u201cSilk Bridge\u201d crossing was closed for more than a week. A number of passengers and drivers said that the prolonged blocking of this road has caused them to suffer.<\/p>\n<p>The Silk Bridge crossing was 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMROZ (SW) &#8211; The &#8220;Silk Bridge&#8221; border crossing with Iran has been temporarily opened, confirmed an official statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,5,8,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":384,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","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=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}