{"id":4595,"date":"2023-02-28T18:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:13:12","slug":"iranian-seminary-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/02\/28\/iranian-seminary-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Seminary Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newlinesmag.com\/first-person\/how-two-months-at-an-iranian-seminary-changed-my-life\/\">Anwar Luz, New Lines, How Two Months at an Iranian Seminary Changed My Life, 28 Feb 2023<\/a> &#8220;I was in this isolated and authoritarian institution because I had been invited by the Iranian government as part of a delegation of Latin American religious students. It was not a shady deal, nor was it secret in any way: Iran has good relationships with several Latin American governments and operates openly in these countries. The course even had a Facebook page, where Iranian teachers promoted the regime\u2019s ideology through hundreds of videos and daily reminders in excellent Spanish, directed mostly toward Muslim converts native to South America, like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar Luz, New Lines, How Two Months at an Iranian Seminary Changed My Life, 28 Feb 2023 &#8220;I was in this isolated and authoritarian institution because I had been invited by the Iranian government as part of a delegation of Latin American religious students. It was not a shady deal, nor was it secret in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,10,169,176,202,206],"tags":[205,201,204],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-converts","category-education","category-facebook","category-iranian-internet","category-latin-america","category-shii-muslims","tag-converts","tag-iran","tag-shiism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}