{"id":540986,"date":"2022-12-05T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=540986"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:53:27","slug":"construction-begins-on-iran-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/construction-begins-on-iran-nuclear-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on Iran nuclear plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country&#8217;s southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the US over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington pulled out of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s nuclear deal with world powers.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also comes as Iran has been rocked by nationwide anti-government protests that began after the death of a young woman in police custody and have challenged the country&#8217;s theocratic government.<\/p>\n<p>The new 300-megawatt plant, known as Karoon, will take eight years to build and cost around USD 2 billion, the country&#8217;s state television and radio agency reported. The plant will be located in Iran&#8217;s oil-rich Khuzestan province, near its western border with Iraq, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country&#8217;s southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the US over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington pulled out of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s nuclear deal with world powers. The announcement also comes as Iran has been rocked by nationwide anti-government protests that began after the death of a young woman in police custody and have challenged the country&#8217;s theocratic government. The new 300-megawatt plant, known as Karoon, will take eight years to build and cost around USD 2 billion, the country&#8217;s state television and radio agency reported. [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540986","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=540986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}