{"id":32552,"date":"2023-05-03T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/syria-iran-sign-strategic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:12:06","slug":"syria-iran-sign-strategic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/syria-iran-sign-strategic\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Iran sign strategic cooperation accord, including oil MoU &#8211; news agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT (Reuters) &#8211;     The presidents of Iran and Syria on Wednesday signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement, including a memorandum of understanding on oil industry cooperation, the Syrian state news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The signing came during a visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Damascus for talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, in the first such visit by an Iranian head of state since war broke out in Syria in 2011.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Maya Gebeily; Writing by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/syria-iran-sign-strategic\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-stands-with-iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420I0-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420I0-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/syria-iran-sign-strategic\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-meets-with-iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420L5-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420L5-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/syria-iran-sign-strategic\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-and-iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-are\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420L6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420L6-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT (Reuters) &#8211; The presidents of Iran and Syria on Wednesday signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement, including a memorandum of understanding on oil industry cooperation, the Syrian state news agency reported. The signing came during a visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Damascus for talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-32552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420I0-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32687,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions\/32687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}