{"id":25774,"date":"2018-12-16T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25774"},"modified":"2018-12-16T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:23:00","slug":"australia-reaffirms-israel-decision-despite-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25774","title":{"rendered":"Australia reaffirms Israel decision despite backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: The appointment of President Hassan Rouhani&#8217;s son-in-law as head of Iran&#8217;s geological survey has renewed accusations of nepotism and led on Sunday to the resignation of a senior official, according to conservative media.<br \/>The appointment of Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and reportedly married to Rouhani&#8217;s daughter in a low-key wedding this August, was widely criticised by Iranians on social media.<br \/>It also triggered the resignation of Jafar Sargheyni, head of the mining section in the industries ministry, who criticised &#8220;unprofessional appointments&#8221; without directly naming Mehdizadeh, the conservative Tasnim news agency reported.<br \/>Mehdizadeh is a PhD student in petroleum engineering, who has also served as an advisor to Iran&#8217;s oil ministry, taekwando federation and national youth organisation, Tasnim said.<br \/>Iranians on social media renewed criticism of nepotism that had spread last year with the hashtag &#8220;#good-genes&#8221; &#8212; a reference to the son of a prominent reformist politician who attributed his business success to inheriting &#8220;good genes&#8221; from his parents.<br \/>&#8220;I had no idea even sons-in-law could inherit #good_genes!,&#8221; wrote one Twitter user on Sunday in reference to Mehdizadeh&#8217;s appointment.<br \/>Another online campaign this summer called on senior officials to come clean about the privileges their children enjoy, particularly those studying in the United States and other Western countries.<br \/>The &#8220;#Where_is_your_kid&#8221; campaign pressured several government figures to respond, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who said his children had returned to Iran after studying abroad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: The appointment of President Hassan Rouhani&#8217;s son-in-law as head of Iran&#8217;s geological survey has renewed accusations of nepotism and led on Sunday to the resignation of a senior official, according to conservative media.The appointment of Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and reportedly married to Rouhani&#8217;s daughter in a low-key wedding this August, was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}