{"id":10880,"date":"2018-07-02T07:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=10880"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:29:18","slug":"talibans-best-fighters-being-trained-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/10880\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s best fighters being trained by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"FullNameGroup\" style=\"color: #666699;\">The Times of London July 2, 2018:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Taliban fighters are receiving advanced training from special forces at military academies in Iran as part of a significant escalation of support for the insurgents, Taliban and Afghan officials have told<i>\u00a0The Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The scale, quality and length of the training is unprecedented and marks not only a shift in the proxy conflict between the US and Iran inside Afghanistan, but also a potential change in Iran\u2019s ability and will to affect the outcome of the Afghan war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Times of London July 2, 2018: Hundreds of Taliban fighters are receiving advanced training from special forces at military academies in Iran as part <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/10880\/\" title=\"Taliban\u2019s best fighters being trained by Iran\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[466,82,483],"class_list":["post-10880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-terrorism-fundamentalism","tag-irans-irgc","tag-irgc","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10883,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions\/10883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}