{"id":17281,"date":"2026-01-02T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/iran-protests-escalate-with-deadly-police-clashes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:21:19","slug":"iran-protests-escalate-with-deadly-police-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/iran-protests-escalate-with-deadly-police-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran protests escalate with deadly police clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The widening protests in Iran over the country&rsquo;s worsening economy escalated Thursday, with demonstrators clashing with police in multiple provinces, leaving several people dead.&nbsp; At least three protesters were killed and 17 others wounded during an attack on a police station in Iran&rsquo;s western province of Lorestan&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5669381-iran-protests-tehran\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widening protests in Iran over the country&rsquo;s worsening economy escalated Thursday, with demonstrators clashing with police in multiple provinces, leaving several people dead.&nbsp; At least three protesters were killed and 17 others wounded during an attack on a police station in Iran&rsquo;s western province of Lorestan&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}