{"id":22101,"date":"2018-02-08T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/08\/no-free-smartphones-for-north-korean-iranian-athletes-at-winter-olympics\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:13:58","slug":"no-free-smartphones-for-north-korean-iranian-athletes-at-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/no-free-smartphones-for-north-korean-iranian-athletes-at-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"No Free Smartphones for North Korean &#038; Iranian Athletes at Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 08-02-2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organisers of the Winter Olympics say North Korean and Iranian athletes at the sporting event will not receive high-end smartphones being handed out to their fellow competitors because of UN sanctions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Games sponsor Samsung Electronics has donated 4,000 &#8220;Olympic edition&#8221; handsets of its flagship Galaxy Note 8 device to be distributed among athletes and IOC officials free of charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But a Pyeongchang organising committee spokeswoman told AFP, North Korean and Iranian athletes will be excluded because of existing UN sanctions&#8221; against the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The devices retail for around 1,000,000 South Korean won (R10,900) and so could fall foul of measures banning supplies of luxury goods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/faizie143\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 08-02-2018 Organisers of the Winter Olympics say North Korean and Iranian athletes at the sporting event will not receive high-end smartphones being handed out to their fellow competitors because of UN sanctions. Games sponsor Samsung Electronics has donated 4,000 &#8220;Olympic edition&#8221; handsets of its flagship Galaxy Note 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5Kt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 11:35:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}