{"id":386,"date":"2004-11-29T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=386"},"modified":"2004-11-29T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T15:23:47","slug":"iran-offers-to-train-iraqi-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Iran Offers to Train Iraqi Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq must find it refreshing to have such <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=736&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/ap\/20041129\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iran_iraq\">helpful neighbors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran offered to train Iraqi police and border guards two days before it was scheduled to host a meeting of security chiefs from Iraq&#8217;s neighboring states, the official news agency reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> It was unclear how Iraq would respond to the Iranian offer. The countries fought a war from 1980-88 that killed or wounded nearly one million people on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Islamic Republic is ready to train Iraqi police and border guards and even equip them as well as help with the country&#8217;s reconstruction,&#8221; said Ali Asghar Ahmadi, Iran&#8217;s deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ummm &#8230; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea to have a country helping train Iraq&#8217;s security when that country is blatantly <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.com\/index.php?p=385\">working to undermine<\/a> Iraqi security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq must find it refreshing to have such helpful neighbors. Iran offered to train Iraqi police and border guards two days before it was scheduled to host a meeting of security chiefs from Iraq&#8217;s neighboring states, the official news agency reported Sunday. It was unclear how Iraq would respond to the Iranian offer. The countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}