{"id":18820,"date":"2026-02-23T04:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:38:28","slug":"two-afghan-traders-rescued-after-25-days-of-kidnapping-from-a-deep-well-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/23\/two-afghan-traders-rescued-after-25-days-of-kidnapping-from-a-deep-well-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Afghan traders rescued after 25 days of kidnapping from a deep well in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Two Afghan traders were rescued by police after 25 days of kidnapping from a frightening well in Iran, media reported.<br>The Hamshahri media outlet reported on Sunday night, that the kidnappers kidnapped the Afghan traders from different locations in Tehran (Afsariyeh and the city center) and demanded a ransom of $600,000 by sending horrifying images of their torture to their families.<br>Family members of the two Afghan traders revealed that the kidnappers subjected them to horrific conditions, including torture while semi-naked and burning their bodies with hot irons.<br>Despite receiving warnings from the kidnappers not to inform the police, the families sought help from Iranian security forces, and by tracking the phone numbers used by the kidnappers, police obtained their first lead.<br>The reports indicate that after extensive investigations, police arrested the leader of a six-member kidnapping gang with a similar criminal background and ultimately rescued both Afghan traders from a three-meter deep well located in a garden in a village known as Mortaza.<br>This incident occurred in Iran at a time when officials of the Islamic Emirate have repeatedly urged Afghan traders to invest by transferring their capital back into the country during available opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Two Afghan traders were rescued by police after 25 days of kidnapping from a frightening well in Iran, media reported.The Hamshahri media outlet reported on Sunday night, that the kidnappers kidnapped the Afghan traders from different locations in Tehran (Afsariyeh and the city center) and demanded a ransom of $600,000 by sending horrifying images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18822,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}