{"id":34524,"date":"2018-12-17T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34524"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:33:26","slug":"esteghlal-persepolis-to-be-ceded-to-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/17\/esteghlal-persepolis-to-be-ceded-to-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal, Persepolis to be ceded to private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar has confirmed that the country\u2019s most popular football teams Esteghlal and Persepolis will be ceded to the private sector by auction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government cabinet has agreed abandoning the two big cultural-sport companies to the private sector, Soltanifar said.<\/p>\n<p>The long awaited privatization of the clubs will be done before the next Iranian calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>Soltanifar said the enactment of the order has been confirmed by the government cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing procedure of the two clubs should be conducted within the next two months, Soltanifar said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran President Hassan Rouhani had already said that the government cannot get involved in business and manufacturing sector so that they back economic privatization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar has confirmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis"],"views":618,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524","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=34524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34526,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524\/revisions\/34526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}