{"id":45889,"date":"2025-04-06T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45889"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:18:22","slug":"iran-president-fires-deputy-over-pricey-antarctica-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/iran-president-fires-deputy-over-pricey-antarctica-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran President Fires Deputy Over Pricey Antarctica Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday dismissed his deputy for parliamentary affairs over a costly trip to Antarctica, as the country grapples with hyperinflation amid a biting economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A photo shared on social media in recent days showed the now former vice-president, Shahram Dabiri, alongside a woman identified as his wife, posing near the Plancius cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch-flagged vessel has offered luxury expeditions to Antarctica since 2009, with one agency pricing an eight-day trip at 3,885 euros per person, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a context where economic pressure on the population remains high&#8230; expensive leisure trips by officials, even if paid out of their own pocket, are neither defensible nor justifiable,&#8221; the Iranian president wrote in a letter published Saturday by the official IRNA news agency, which noted that Dabiri was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Dabiri, a 64-year-old physician by profession and a close confidant of Pezeshkian, had been appointed to the post in August.<\/p>\n<p>The government faced strong criticism after the photo was published, and several of Pezeshkian&#8217;s supporters urged him to remove the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday dismissed his deputy for parliamentary affairs over a costly trip to Antarctica, as the country grapples with hyperinflation amid a biting economic crisis. A photo shared on social media in recent days showed the now former vice-president, Shahram Dabiri, alongside a woman identified as his wife, posing near the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45890,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45889\/revisions\/45890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}