{"id":48664,"date":"2019-11-02T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48664"},"modified":"2019-11-02T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T03:31:00","slug":"iran-iraq-connect-power-grids-to-increase-electricity-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48664","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Iraq Connect Power Grids To Increase Electricity Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Nov 2 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; Iran connected its national power grid to that of Iraq on Friday, a news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The power grids of the neighbouring countries were synchronised in a ceremony, with the participation of Iranian energy minister and the Iraqi deputy minister of electricity, the report said, without further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is aimed at helping Iraq reduce its power outages, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement to connect the two countries&#8217; power grids was reached earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the synchronisation of the national grids, the two countries would witness the increase of electricity exchanges, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister, Homayoun Ha&#8217;eri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is an exporter of electricity to neighbouring countries.&#8211; NNN-TASNIM  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Nov 2 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; Iran connected its national power grid to that of Iraq on Friday, a news agency reported. The power grids of the neighbouring countries were synchronised in a ceremony, with the participation of Iranian energy minister and the Iraqi deputy minister of electricity, the report said, without further details. The move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}