{"id":78670,"date":"2020-01-14T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=78670"},"modified":"2020-04-05T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T18:54:09","slug":"iranian-police-in-riot-gear-confront-hundreds-of-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/01\/14\/iranian-police-in-riot-gear-confront-hundreds-of-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Police, in Riot Gear, Confront Hundreds of Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VOA -The streets of Tehran turned bloody Monday, as police in riot gear confronted hundreds of protesters denouncing the government\u2019s admission of shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all 176 people on board, most of them Iranian citizens. The protests entered a third day in several cities across the country, as anger shifted from the United States for the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3, to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which admitted its role in the downed airliner after days of denial.<\/p>\n

Video taken by several citizen journalists across Iran showed peaceful demonstrations, as well as a bloody escalation of violence.<\/p>\n

At Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, students demand answers. \u201cWe want clarity,\u201d they said. \u201cThis country is suffering from a lack of transparency. They lied to us for all these years. \u2026 They treat us as donkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA -The streets of Tehran turned bloody Monday, as police in riot gear confronted hundreds of protesters denouncing the government\u2019s admission of shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all 176 people on board, most of them Iranian citizens. The protests entered a third day in several cities across the country, as anger shifted from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}