{"id":84794,"date":"2026-02-12T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84794"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:20:14","slug":"british-couple-held-in-iran-starving-and-suffering-medical-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/british-couple-held-in-iran-starving-and-suffering-medical-neglect\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple held in Iran \u2018starving and suffering medical neglect\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Ulprm.img?w=534&amp;h=524&amp;m=6&amp;x=50&amp;y=221&amp;s=511&amp;d=271\" alt=\"Joe Bennett shared his concerns for his mother and Craig Foreman (Joe Bennett)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The son of a British couple detained in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Iran for more than 400 days<\/a> told MPs his parents have been subjected to inhumane conditions, starvation and psychological torment as he called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/british-couple-held-in-iran-starving-and-suffering-medical-neglect\/ar-AA1W9pQG?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=f79538a3c8a14539e420b72ce91447e0&amp;ei=11&amp;cvpid=698d8c261b7b49739032964b16747d35\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The son of a British couple detained in\u00a0Iran for more than 400 days told MPs his parents have been subjected to inhumane&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/British-couple-Iran.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84795,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84794\/revisions\/84795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}