{"id":53007,"date":"2022-10-01T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53007"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:16:55","slug":"irans-lifting-of-travel-ban-on-baquer-namazi-and-granting-of-humanitarian-furlough-to-siamak-namazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53007","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Lifting of Travel Ban on Baquer Namazi and Granting of Humanitarian Furlough to Siamak Namazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>10\/01\/2022 09:53 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>We were deeply gratified to learn from the UN Secretary-General today that Iran has lifted the travel ban imposed on Baquer Namazi.\u00a0 Namazi is an 85-year-old American citizen who was unjustly detained in Iran and who, since his release from custody, has not been permitted to leave Iran, including for urgent medical treatment.\u00a0 We are also grateful that Siamak Namazi, his son who was also unjustly detained, has been granted a humanitarian furlough in order to be with his father.<\/p>\n<p>We express our appreciation to the U.S. allies and partners who have worked tirelessly to help the Namazis, including the UN Secretary-General, Switzerland, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Our efforts are far from over. \u00a0We remain committed and determined to securing the freedom of all Americans unjustly detained in Iran and elsewhere. \u00a0They should be reunited with their loved ones as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/01\/2022 09:53 PM EDT &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53008,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions\/53008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}