{"id":349074,"date":"2026-03-20T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/349074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:11:06","slug":"iranian-diaspora-marks-nowruz-with-heavy-hearts-as-war-cuts-contact-with-loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/349074\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian diaspora marks Nowruz with heavy hearts as war cuts contact with loved ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WUBUEJOI6ZFE3BMERVIRLC6VAY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PARIS \u2014 When Iran erupted in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-protests-us-israel-war-economy-d5da3b5f56449dd3871c9438c07f069f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nationwide protests<\/a> at the end of 2025, Shayan Ghadimi\u2019s mother returned to the country from Paris to see the uprising for herself.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3LMVHEZFABC2PJHXYFWMBL3ZE4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Her absence \u2014 and the struggle to stay in touch through the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-protests-crackdown-hospitals-326f127b5fef610a89f89e5c164b473c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bloody crackdown<\/a> that followed and now the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a> \u2014 hang over the family. Like many Iranians outside the country, they will mark the normally festive Persian new year, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nowruz-persian-new-year-7b81f9d00aa591b115b7abad4c631d72\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known as Nowruz<\/a> , with heavy hearts \u2014 or not at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 When Iran erupted in nationwide protests at the end of 2025, Shayan Ghadimi\u2019s mother returned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,42,170161,117780,43,7319,40,38,41,39,121,126],"class_list":["post-349074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-iran-somber-persian-new-year","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}