{"id":149374,"date":"2026-03-02T02:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:07:39","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-im-terrified-iranian-american-mother-from-westport-worried-because-she-cant-reach-loved-ones-in-her-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149374\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | &#8216;I&#8217;m terrified.&#8221; Iranian American mother from Westport worried because she can&#8217;t reach loved ones in her homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian American mother from Westport says she hasn&#8217;t been able to reach her family in Iran since the military strikes by the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Kami Naraghi Evans says she&#8217;s been trying to reach her relatives in Iran since the airstrikes in the region were first reported around 2 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have about 40 relatives in Iran and I&#8217;m terrified at the moment because we have no idea if they&#8217;re living or dead,&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying and trying to get through, but no luck,&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Evans says there&#8217;s no embassy presence in Iran to provide emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>She says anybody who has family in Iran should register with the <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/en\/international-travel\/travel-advisories\/iran.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. State Department<\/a>, which is tracking the situation and working to connect Americans with family in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Iranian American mother from Westport says she hasn&#8217;t been able to reach her family in Iran since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,14670,661,9,24,63,15254,60184],"class_list":["post-149374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-strike","tag-westport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}