{"id":533245,"date":"2026-03-19T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533245\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:14:10","slug":"for-iranian-americans-nowruz-brings-hope-and-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533245\/","title":{"rendered":"For Iranian Americans, Nowruz brings hope \u2014 and worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian exile communities in Washington, D.C., are marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with traditional spring rituals \u2014 even as celebrations feel subdued amid the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-israel-war-with-iran\/t-76168615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US\u2011Israeli war with Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With limited contact to relatives back home, many here gather to keep their traditions alive, share hopes for peace, and reflect on a difficult start to the new year.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian exile communities in Washington, D.C., are marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with traditional spring rituals \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-533245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}