{"id":530422,"date":"2026-03-10T06:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530422\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:09:08","slug":"iranian-womens-football-players-have-asylum-in-australia-but-what-now-full-story-podcast-womens-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530422\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian women\u2019s football players have asylum in Australia, but what now? \u2013 Full Story podcast | Women&#8217;s football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After days of speculation, five players from the Iranian women\u2019s football team were formally granted protection in Australia by home affairs minister Tony Burke early on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the rest of the team remains under surveillance by minders as they travel to the airport and potentially back to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s football journalist Samantha Lewis speaks to Nour Haydar about what went on behind the scenes to keep the women in Australia, whether more players could do so too and what happens next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After days of speculation, five players from the Iranian women\u2019s football team were formally granted protection in Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-530422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}