{"id":12283,"date":"2025-06-11T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:25:06","slug":"kabul-has-changed-into-irans-competitor-in-global-market-iranian-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/06\/11\/kabul-has-changed-into-irans-competitor-in-global-market-iranian-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul has changed into Iran&#8217;s competitor in global market, Iranian official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Mahmoud Najafi Arab, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture, has claimed that Afghanistan has become a competitor to Iran in the global carpet market, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Najafi highlighted Afghanistan, along with China and Turkey, as countries that are impacting Iran&#8217;s carpet exports due to Western sanctions. He alleged that these countries employ Iranian weavers to produce carpets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks were made during Iran\u2019s National Handwoven Carpet Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Najafi Arab&#8217;s remarks come amid growing recognition of Afghan carpets in European and American markets, which have been capturing attention for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, Iranian officials have made similar statements regarding Afghan saffron, which is renowned for its flavor and has been recognized as a top competitor&nbsp;globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Mahmoud Najafi Arab, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture, has claimed that Afghanistan has become a competitor to Iran in the global carpet market, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. Najafi highlighted Afghanistan, along with China and Turkey, as countries that are impacting Iran&#8217;s carpet exports due to Western sanctions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12285,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions\/12285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}