{"id":1931613,"date":"2026-09-07T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931613"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:14:07","slug":"iranian-soccer-players-who-sought-asylum-in-australia-say-anthem-silence-was-protest-against-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931613","title":{"rendered":"Iranian soccer players who sought asylum in Australia say anthem silence was protest against Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Two members of the Iranian women\u2019s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia have confirmed their pivotal refusal to sing the national anthem during the Women\u2019s Asian Cup in March was a protest against Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/35666-iranian-soccer-players-who-sought-asylum-in-australia-say-anthem-silence-was-protest-against-tehran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Two members of the Iranian women\u2019s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia have confirmed their pivotal refusal to sing the national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1931614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1931613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931615,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931613\/revisions\/1931615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}