{"id":51283,"date":"2026-04-04T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/51283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:20:09","slug":"iraq-closes-shalamcheh-crossing-with-iran-after-airstrikes-kill-iraqi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/51283\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq closes Shalamcheh crossing with Iran after airstrikes kill Iraqi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">April 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Iraq closed the Shalamcheh \u200cborder crossing with \u200cIran after airstrikes on the \u200bIranian side killed an Iraqi citizen, security sources said on \u200cSaturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sources \u2060said at least five Iraqis were \u2060seriously wounded in the strikes, which \u200bhit a \u200bpassenger \u200breception area on \u200cthe Iranian side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iraqi police recovered the body of a man, while the wounded were \u200ctaken to \u200bhospital, most \u200bin \u200bcritical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iraq&#8217;s border \u200cauthorities ordered the \u200bcrossing closed \u200bto trade and travellers, the authorities \u200bsaid \u200cin a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u200bAhmed Rasheed;Editing by \u200bAlison Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Iraq closed the Shalamcheh \u200cborder crossing with \u200cIran after airstrikes on the \u200bIranian side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2166,34,20763,94,20762,5541],"class_list":{"0":"post-51283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-border-crossing","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iranian-side","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraqi-police","13":"tag-security-sources"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116346173808700400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}