{"id":31185,"date":"2013-03-28T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/03\/28\/295518\/ahmadinejad-launches-tallest-dam-project\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T09:02:26","slug":"ahmadinejad-opens-major-dam-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ahmadinejad-opens-major-dam-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad opens major dam project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Iran\u2019s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated a major construction project to build the world\u2019s tallest double-curved concrete arch dam in Iran\u2019s western Lorestan Province.<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday ceremony in the city of Khorramabad, the president expressed gladness over launching the major project, which will be carried out entirely by Iranian experts and construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>The 315-meter-tall (1,033 feet) dam has been designed to construct a hydroelectric power plant that will generate 1,500 megawatt electricity.<\/p>\n<p>President Ahmadinejad described the Bakhtiari Dam project as a turning point in the path towards the development, progress and improvement of Lorestan Province.<\/p>\n<p>The president added during the inauguration ceremony that the world\u2019s tallest double-curved concrete dam is being built here by the \u201cable hands and expertise of committed Iranian scientists and workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dam will be built over Lorestan\u2019s Bakhtiari River.<\/p>\n<p>MFB\/HJL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iran&rsquo;s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated a major construction project to build the world&rsquo;s tallest double-curved concrete arch dam in Iran&rsquo;s western Lorestan Province.<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday ceremony in the city of Khorramabad, the president expressed gladness over launching the major project, which will be carried out entirely by Iranian experts and construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>The 315-meter-tall (1,033 feet) dam has been designed to construct a hydroelectric power plant that will generate 1,500 megawatt electricity.<\/p>\n<p>President Ahmadinejad described the Bakhtiari Dam project as a turning point in the path towards the development, progress and improvement of Lorestan Province.<\/p>\n<p>The president added during the inauguration ceremony that the world&rsquo;s tallest double-curved concrete dam is being built here by the &ldquo;able hands and expertise of committed Iranian scientists and workforce.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The dam will be built over Lorestan&rsquo;s Bakhtiari River.<\/p>\n<p>MFB\/HJL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}