{"id":21624,"date":"2015-05-25T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21624"},"modified":"2015-05-25T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T23:10:21","slug":"saudi-authorities-reportedly-cause-delay-of-persepolis-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/25\/saudi-authorities-reportedly-cause-delay-of-persepolis-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Authorities Reportedly Cause Delay of Persepolis Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; RIYADH, <strong>Saudi Arabian authorities did not issue permission for the Iranian flight carrying the Persepolis squad on Sunday, causing the flight to be delayed by 5-hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expressing regret over the sabotage by Saudi officials in Riyadh airport, Persepolis football club vice-president Mohammad Hossein Nejad-Fallah said the country has spent millions of dollars to cause a delay of the flight carrying the Iranian football club, Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Saudis spent $15 million for some alleged maintenance problems in Riyadh airport which resulted in the delay of the flight of Persepolis football team which was scheduled to leave Tehran at 15:00.<\/p>\n<p>After the flight arrived in Riyadh, the Iranian club team was also delayed at the airport due to visa issuance problems for two and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach flight needs permission from the destination country, and Persepolis&#8217; team is boarding now after a five hour delay,\u201d Media Director of Persepolis Football Club Khomarlo told IRNA on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that all members of the team are present, except Masoud Homami, who has been issued a travel ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; RIYADH, Saudi Arabian authorities did not issue permission for the Iranian flight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2963,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21624","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}