{"id":59,"date":"2010-03-10T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/?p=59"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:20:27","slug":"ahmadinejad-kabul-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/ahmadinejad-kabul-visit.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad Kabul visit delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has postponed a trip to Afghanistan devoted to providing &#8220;solutions for settling the problems&#8221; in Iran&#8217;s eastern neighbor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The one-day visit, originally scheduled for Monday, would be the President&#8217;s first visit to Afghanistan since both he and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai were re-elected last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Ahmadinejad won&#8217;t be coming to Kabul,&#8221; an informed source at the Karzai&#8217;s office told on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, has, however, arrived in Afghanistan on Monday morning on an unannounced visit.<\/p>\n<p>Iran blames Afghanistan&#8217;s insurgency and the rising Taliban-linked extremism on the West&#8217;s interference in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>The US-led war in Afghanistan has killed more than 1,440 civilians this year &#8211; a figure almost equal to the US-led coalition&#8217;s overall death toll in over eight years of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to figures released by the Washington Post, around 5,372 American servicemen have been killed since 2001 in the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has postponed a trip to Afghanistan devoted to providing &#8220;solutions for settling the problems&#8221; in Iran&#8217;s eastern neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,38],"tags":[103,104,106,107,108,109,110,111,218],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-daily","category-politics","tag-ahmadinejad","tag-ahmadinejad-kabul-visit","tag-iran-president-ahmadinejad","tag-iran-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","tag-kabul-visit","tag-kabul-visit-news","tag-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","tag-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}