{"id":16390,"date":"2013-11-17T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16390"},"modified":"2013-11-17T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:26:06","slug":"irans-new-minister-of-sports-and-youth-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/11\/17\/irans-new-minister-of-sports-and-youth-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s new minister of sports and youth confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mahmoud Goudarzi \u2013 the 4<sup>th<\/sup> person introduced by President Hassan Rouhani <em>(pictured)<\/em> &#8211; was confirmed as the new Minister of Sports and Youth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s legislators in the Majlis gave a vote of confidence to the current Faculty of Athletics at the University of Tehran head. Goudarzi received 199 votes in favor, 44 against, and 24 abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>Rouhani\u2019s three previous nominees for the position failed to receive parliamentary approval from the conservative-dominated parliament. Masoud Soltanifar, Seyed Reza Salehi Amiri and Hamid Sajadi had all failed to win the parliament\u2019s vote of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Goudarzi is a 58-year old Tehran University professor in physical education planning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Mahmoud Goudarzi \u2013 the 4th person introduced by President Hassan Rouhani (pictured)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3222,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}