{"id":6639,"date":"2010-05-14T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:40:15","slug":"iran-and-iraq-exchange-border-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/iran-and-iraq-exchange-border-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Iraq exchange border fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries&#8217; border yesterday, the first major incident between the two since Iran took over a disputed oil well in December.<\/p>\n<p>An Iraqi officer was captured by the Islamic Republic&#8217;s forces in the 90-minute gunfight on the border with Iraq&#8217;s autonomous Kurdish region, which was apparently sparked when Iranian troops mistook Iraqi soldiers for a Kurdish rebel group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iranian forces thought that the border guards belonged to PJAK (the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan &#8211; an Iranian Kurdish rebel group) and started to open fire,&#8221; Brigadier General Ahmed Gharib Diskara, the head of Iraq&#8217;s border guards in Sulaimaniyah province, told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries&#8217; border yesterday, the first major incident between the two since Iran took over a disputed oil well in December. An Iraqi officer was captured by the Islamic Republic&#8217;s forces in the 90-minute gunfight on the border with Iraq&#8217;s autonomous Kurdish region, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-6639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-iran","8":"tag-iraq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}