{"id":79937,"date":"2025-07-09T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/british-couple-held-in-iran-arent-spies-son-says-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:44:17","slug":"british-couple-held-in-iran-arent-spies-son-says-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/british-couple-held-in-iran-arent-spies-son-says-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple held in Iran &#8216;aren&#8217;t spies&#8217;, son says | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The son of a British couple detained in Iran has said he broke down in tears when he learned of <!--more--> their arrest and has not heard from them in six months.<\/p>\n<p>Craig and Lindsay Foreman were on a &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime&#8221; motorbike trip around the world when they were arrested in January and later charged with espionage, which the family denies.<\/p>\n<p>Their son Joe Bennett told the BBC: &#8220;I want to be crystal clear, my parents aren&#8217;t spies, they&#8217;re not political players, they aren&#8217;t criminals. They&#8217;re Mum and Dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it was continuing to assist the family and raise the case directly with Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Iran #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of a British couple detained in Iran has said he broke down in tears when he learned of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}