{"id":56200,"date":"2026-04-04T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56200"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:09:54","slug":"iraq-closes-shalamcheh-crossing-with-iran-after-airstrikes-kill-iraqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56200","title":{"rendered":"Iraq closes Shalamcheh crossing with Iran after airstrikes kill Iraqi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 4  &#8211; Iraq \u200bclosed the Shalamcheh \u200cborder crossing with Iran after airstrikes on the \u200bIranian side killed \u200ban Iraqi citizen, security \u2060sources said on \u200bSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sources said at \u200bleast five Iraqis were seriously wounded in the strikes, \u200bwhich hit a \u200bpassenger reception area on the \u200cIranian \u2060side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraqi police recovered the body of a man, while the \u200bwounded \u200bwere \u2060taken to hospital, most in critical \u200bcondition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s border authorities \u200bordered \u2060the crossing closed to trade and travellers, \u2060the \u200bauthorities said \u200bin a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) April 4 &#8211; Iraq \u200bclosed the Shalamcheh \u200cborder crossing with Iran after airstrikes on the \u200bIranian side killed \u200ban Iraqi citizen, security \u2060sources said on \u200bSaturday. The sources said at \u200bleast five Iraqis were seriously wounded in the strikes, \u200bwhich hit a \u200bpassenger reception area on the \u200cIranian \u2060side. Iraqi police recovered the body of a man, while the \u200bwounded \u200bwere \u2060taken to hospital, most in critical \u200bcondition. Iraq&#8217;s border authorities \u200bordered \u2060the crossing closed to trade and travellers, \u2060the \u200bauthorities said \u200bin a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56202,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56200\/revisions\/56202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}