{"id":27970,"date":"2025-04-02T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27970"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:41:13","slug":"iran-plans-to-open-consulate-in-farah-to-boost-relations-with-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/04\/iran-plans-to-open-consulate-in-farah-to-boost-relations-with-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plans to open consulate in Farah to boost relations with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TEHRAN (SW) &#8211; Mohammad Reza Hashemi, the governor of South Khorasan province in Iran, has stated that his country is working to establish a consulate in Farah province to strengthen its relations with Afghanistan in the current solar year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the news agency IRNA, Hashemi made this announcement on Tuesday, adding that Iran is also looking to establish an Afghan consulate in Birjand, Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;South Khorasan, with the longest shared border with Afghanistan and four border markets, has immense potential for expanding trade exchanges with this country,&#8221; Hashemi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The governor emphasized that this initiative aims to promote trade, cultural relations, and facilitate easier movement for citizens of both countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iran is one of Afghanistan&#8217;s key trade partners, and according to Iranian officials, Afghanistan has now become the fifth-largest destination for Iran\u2019s exported goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on data provided by Iran, the two countries exchanged goods worth 3.197 billion dollars in 2024, marking an 84% increase compared to 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative aims to promote trade, cultural relations, and facilitate easier movement for citizens of both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,179,233,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy-business","category-iran","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":108,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27975,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions\/27975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}