{"id":86260,"date":"2026-03-11T08:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86260"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:10:31","slug":"iran-launches-unhinged-attack-on-australia-accusing-it-of-taking-soccer-team-hostage-and-comparing-it-to-bombing-of-school-where-160-girls-were-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-launches-unhinged-attack-on-australia-accusing-it-of-taking-soccer-team-hostage-and-comparing-it-to-bombing-of-school-where-160-girls-were-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches unhinged attack on Australia accusing it of taking soccer team HOSTAGE &#8211; and comparing it to bombing of school where 160 girls were killed"},"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\/03\/107031595-15634467-image-m-9_1773200325877.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured: Members of the Iranian women's team who accepted Australia's offer of asylum and were granted humanitarian visas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Senior Iranian government and football officials have accused Australia of taking asylum-seeking women&#8217;s players &#8216;hostage&#8217; after seven members of the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-15634467\/Iran-Australia-soccer-football-team-hostage-anthem-boycott-asylum-Asia-Cup.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>Senior Iranian government and football officials have accused Australia of taking asylum-seeking women&#8217;s players &#8216;hostage&#8217; after seven members of the team Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86260","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-football-team.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86260","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=86260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86261,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86260\/revisions\/86261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}