{"id":263700,"date":"2019-03-12T06:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263700"},"modified":"2019-03-12T06:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:23:38","slug":"irans-rouhani-signs-trade-pacts-in-iraq-to-help-offset-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irans-rouhani-signs-trade-pacts-in-iraq-to-help-offset-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Rouhani signs trade pacts in Iraq to help offset US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq and Iran signed several preliminary trade deals on Monday, Iraqi officials said, as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began his first visit seeking to bolster Tehran&#8217;s influence and expand commercial ties to help offset renewed US sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>The deals, among them a plan to build a railway linking the neighbours, emerged soon after the start of Rouhani&#8217;s visit, meant to underline that Tehran still plays a dominant role in Iraq despite US efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic. <\/p>\n<p>Iran and Iraq fought a devastating 1980-88 war but the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein prompted a long Sunni Islamist insurgency during which Iran&#8217;s regional sway rose at the expense of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq and Iran signed several preliminary trade deals on Monday, Iraqi officials said, as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began his first visit seeking to bolster Tehran&#8217;s influence and expand commercial ties to help offset renewed US sanctions. The deals, among them a plan to build a railway linking the neighbours, emerged soon after the start of Rouhani&#8217;s visit, meant to underline that Tehran still plays a dominant role in Iraq despite US efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic. Iran and Iraq fought a devastating 1980-88 war but the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein prompted a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}