{"id":126171,"date":"2011-09-12T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=126171"},"modified":"2011-09-12T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:19:24","slug":"football-fans-in-iran-demand-a-united-azerbaijan-with-capital-in-tabriz-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/12\/football-fans-in-iran-demand-a-united-azerbaijan-with-capital-in-tabriz-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Football Fans in Iran Demand a United Azerbaijan with Capital in Tabriz (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football match between Esteghlal Tehran FC and Tractor Sazi FC from Tabriz has caused political tensions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the match, thousands of Azerbaijani fans began to chant slogans outside the stadium: &#8220;Long live united Azerbaijan with its capital in Tabriz&#8221; and &#8220;Long live Azerbaijan, and those who do not want it let them go blind!&#8221; among others.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioazadlyg.org\/content\/article\/24324504.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azeri service<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> (Azadliq), police used force against participants of the spontaneous demonstration. Some were injured, while others were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Major clashes between security forces and citizens celebrating Tractor&#8217;s victory also took place in Tabriz.<\/p>\n<p>Famous activist, former political prisoner Abbas Lisani is also reported to be arrested, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.az\/articles\/iran\/44198\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports the Baku-based News.az<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, citing 1news.az.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_yoxEfSsXmQ?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A football match between Esteghlal Tehran FC and Tractor Sazi FC from Tabriz has caused political tensions.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31779,10297,31781,15565,31780,31782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}