{"id":15964,"date":"2020-03-17T23:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/iranian-police-shrines-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-17T23:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:08:57","slug":"iranian-police-disperse-crowds-from-shrines-after-covid-19-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15964","title":{"rendered":"Iranian police disperse crowds from shrines after Covid-19 closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religious authorities around the world limit contact and close places of worship<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iranian police have dispersed crowds who forced their way into two popular shrines soon after they were closed because of the threat from the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Shia Muslims entered the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad and the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom on Monday night, protesting at the closures announced earlier in the day on Iranian state television.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/iranian-police-shrines-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious authorities around the world limit contact and close places of worshipCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIranian police have dispersed crowds who forced their way into two popular shrines soon after they were closed b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,368,370,1069,914,448,447,70,212,754,371,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-islam","category-malaysia","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pope-francis","category-religion","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15965,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964\/revisions\/15965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}