{"id":51336,"date":"2026-04-04T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/51336\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:09:09","slug":"iraq-closes-shalamcheh-border-crossing-with-iran-following-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/51336\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq closes Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran following airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq shut down the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran following airstrikes on the Iranian side that resulted in the death of an Iraqi citizen, according to security sources on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sources said at least five Iraqis \u200cwere seriously wounded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/pmf-blames-us-israel-after-iraq-air-strike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strikes<\/a>, which hit \u200ca passenger reception area on the Iranian side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq shut down the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran following airstrikes on the Iranian side that resulted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2166,34,94,15269,2081],"class_list":{"0":"post-51336","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-iraq","11":"tag-shalamcheh","12":"tag-strikes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116346366345177875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336","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=51336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}