{"id":86256,"date":"2026-03-11T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86256"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:04:02","slug":"seven-defected-but-the-rest-reluctantly-boarded-a-plane-what-horror-awaits-irans-brave-women-footballers-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/11\/seven-defected-but-the-rest-reluctantly-boarded-a-plane-what-horror-awaits-irans-brave-women-footballers-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven defected, but the rest reluctantly boarded a plane. What horror awaits Iran&#8217;s brave women footballers at home?"},"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:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/03\/11\/01\/107034771-0-image-a-9_1773192587730.jpg\" alt=\"Seven defected, but the rest reluctantly boarded a plane. What horror awaits Iran's brave\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long way from downtown Tehran to Surfer&#8217;s Paradise, a gaudy tourist metropolis on Australia&#8217;s sun-drenched\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-eebd8030-1cde-11f1-8a57-b75f3ec02257\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/gold-coast\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Gold Coast<\/a><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15633685\/Iran-women-footballers-australia-horror-tehran.html\">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>It&#8217;s a long way from downtown Tehran to Surfer&#8217;s Paradise, a gaudy tourist metropolis on Australia&#8217;s sun-drenched\u00a0Gold Coast. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86256","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\/2026\/03\/Iran-female-footballers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86256","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=86256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86257,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86256\/revisions\/86257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}