{"id":85167,"date":"2026-02-19T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85167"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:55:02","slug":"british-couple-held-in-iran-are-given-totally-unjustifiable-10-year-jail-sentence-for-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/british-couple-held-in-iran-are-given-totally-unjustifiable-10-year-jail-sentence-for-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple held in Iran are given &#8216;totally unjustifiable&#8217; 10-year jail sentence for spying"},"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\/AA1WEd6x.img?w=534&amp;h=493&amp;m=6&amp;x=362&amp;y=236&amp;s=164&amp;d=164\" alt=\"Craig and Lindsay Foreman are a British couple being held in Iran on 'spying' charges - and have now been given a ten-year jail sentence\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A British couple being held in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" 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<\/a>\u00a0have been given a 10-year jail sentence for &#8216;spying&#8217;, in a move labelled &#8216;totally unjustifiable&#8217; by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/dominic-raab\/index.html\" 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}\">Foreign Secretary<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/british-couple-held-in-iran-are-given-totally-unjustifiable-10-year-jail-sentence-for-spying\/ar-AA1WDVGC?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6996c14d6db4461aa9cd6e16203881f9&amp;ei=18\"> 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>A British couple being held in\u00a0Iran\u00a0have been given a 10-year jail sentence for &#8216;spying&#8217;, in a move labelled &#8216;totally unjustifiable&#8217; by the\u00a0Foreign&#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-85167","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\/85167","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=85167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85168,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85167\/revisions\/85168"}],"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=85167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}