{"id":25902,"date":"2026-04-09T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=25902"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:28:31","slug":"where-is-iran-in-the-bible-heres-the-biblical-backstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=25902","title":{"rendered":"Where is Iran in the Bible?: Here&#039;s the biblical backstory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>The word \u201cIran\u201d doesn&#039;t appear in the Bible, but the names of the peoples and empires that occupied that land are written into the biblical narrative. #Iran #theBible #Persians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201cIran\u201d doesn&#039;t appear in the Bible, but the names of the peoples and empires that occupied that land are written into the biblical narrative. #Iran #theBible #Persians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8104,45,434,7497,3825],"class_list":["post-25902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-living","tag-backstory","tag-bible","tag-biblical","tag-here039s","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}