{"id":2574,"date":"2017-08-15T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/15\/iran-freezes-assets-of-bbc-persian-staff-in-crackdown-on-journalists\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:00:10","slug":"iran-freezes-assets-of-bbc-persian-staff-in-crackdown-on-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Iran freezes assets of BBC Persian staff in crackdown on journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster condemns Tehran\u2019s block on Iranian employees\u2019 financial transactions after re-election of Hassan Rouhani The BBC has criticised Iran for imposing an asset freeze on staff at its London-based Persian-service, the latest crackdown against the corporation\u2019s Iranian employees. Tehran\u2019s judicial authorities have issued a court order listing more than 150 BBC Persian journalists and former contributors, preventing them from conducting financial transactions or selling properties in their homeland because of their affiliation with the British media organisation. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/15\/iran-freezes-assets-bbc-persian-staff-crackdown-journalists\" target=\"_blank\">Iran freezes assets of BBC Persian staff in crackdown on journalists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster condemns Tehran\u2019s block on Iranian employees\u2019 financial transactions after re-election of Hassan Rouhani The BBC has criticised Iran for imposing an asset freeze on staff at its London-based Persian-service, the latest crackdown against the corporation\u2019s Iranian employees. Tehran\u2019s judicial authorities have issued a court order listing more than 150 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}