{"id":563601,"date":"2026-03-25T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563601\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:32:09","slug":"australia-blocks-entry-for-7000-iranian-visa-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563601\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia blocks entry for 7000 Iranian visa holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 7000 Iranian temporary visa holders will be blocked from entering Australia over concerns they might be unable or unwilling to return home amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/topic\/middle-east-conflict-6h14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced the change, affecting subclass 600 visa holders, on Wednesday stating the measure gives the government time to assess the situation properly while still allowing flexibility in limited cases.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 7000 Iranian temporary visa holders will be blocked from entering Australia over concerns they might be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-563601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563601","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=563601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}