{"id":195544,"date":"2025-10-14T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=195544"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:32:24","slug":"irans-foreign-minister-faces-backlash-over-family-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/195544\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s foreign minister faces backlash over family photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has come under public scrutiny after his wife, Arzu Ahmedvand, shared photos from their daughter’s birthday on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photos, which showed a cake and gifts decorated with American symbols, sparked heated debate on Iranian social media.<\/p>\n

Some users argued that an official representative of Tehran should not use such symbols, calling it “inappropriate.”<\/p>\n

Others, however, defended the family, saying the criticism was unfair.<\/p>\n

“Does Araghchi’s status as a minister mean his child can’t celebrate her birthday? Nearly all children’s cakes today feature foreign cartoon characters,” some commenters wrote.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has come under public scrutiny after his wife, Arzu Ahmedvand, shared photos from their daughter’s birthday on Instagram. The photos, which showed a cake and gifts decorated with American symbols, sparked heated debate on Iranian social media. Some users argued that an official representative of Tehran should not use such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":195518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195545,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195544\/revisions\/195545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}