{"id":77130,"date":"2019-10-01T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T22:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=77130"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T22:16:31","slug":"iranian-presidents-brother-sentenced-to-5-years-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/10\/01\/iranian-presidents-brother-sentenced-to-5-years-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President&#8217;s Brother Sentenced to 5 Years for Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77133\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FeridonWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"200\" width=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FeridonWEB.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FeridonWEB-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FeridonWEB-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FeridonWEB-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FeridonWEB-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VOA &#8211; The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption and bribery. Gholamhossein Esmaili, a spokesman for the judiciary, told reporters on Tuesday that Hossein Fereidoun, Rouhani&#8217;s brother, might face further charges in another case, though he gave no details. The semiofficial Fars news agency quoted &#8220;an informed source&#8221; as saying that &#8220;Fereidoun allegedly paid money to certain individuals in charge of bribing banks and other influential sectors of the economy for large sums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, more than 46 lawmakers called on Rouhani to present his brother to the judiciary to face &#8220;financial corruption charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">That demand echoed statements at the time by Rouhani&#8217;s rivals in which they accused Fereidoun &#8212; a member of the president&#8217;s inner circle who has been called his &#8220;eyes and ears&#8221; &#8212; of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption and bribery. Gholamhossein Esmaili, a spokesman for the judiciary, told reporters on Tuesday that Hossein Fereidoun, Rouhani&#8217;s brother, might face further charges in another case, though he gave no details. The semiofficial Fars news agency quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}