{"id":2550,"date":"2021-02-06T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2021-02-07T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T02:59:47","slug":"2550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/02\/06\/2550\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persepolis is the most followed pro soccer team in Iran.\u00a0 \u201cMehrdad Minavand, 45, and Ali Ansarian, 43, played professionally in Iran&#8217;s Pro League for Persepolis Football Club and were cherished by fans across the country. The former teammates are believed to have contracted the coronavirus when they co-hosted an online television special on the derby match between Persepolis FC and Esteghlal FC, according to Iran&#8217;s state news agency, IRNA.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/06\/football\/mehrdad-minavand-ali-ansarian-iranian-world-cup-footballers-covid-19-spt-intl\/index.html\">\u201cTwo former Iranian national team footballers die from Covid-19 within a week of each other after appearing on a TV special aired online,\u201d<\/a> Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, February 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/06022021-iran-asks-madagascar-to-help-protect-its-fishermen-from-pirates\">\u201cIran Asks Madagascar To Help Protect Its Fishermen From Pirates,\u201d<\/a> Tasnim, February 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>76 died Friday, officially.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1101557154\/Iran-reveals-COVID-19-data-for-February-6&amp;source=246\">\u201cIran reveals COVID-19 data for February 6,\u201d<\/a> MENAFN, February 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persepolis is the most followed pro soccer team in Iran.\u00a0 \u201cMehrdad Minavand, 45, and Ali Ansarian, 43, played professionally in Iran&#8217;s Pro League for Persepolis Football Club and were cherished by fans across the country. The former teammates are believed to have contracted the coronavirus when they co-hosted an online television special on the derby &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/02\/06\/2550\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}