{"id":18110,"date":"2026-01-23T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/voice-of-americas-persian-service-blacks-out-irans-exiled-crown-prince\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:22:19","slug":"voice-of-americas-persian-service-blacks-out-irans-exiled-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/voice-of-americas-persian-service-blacks-out-irans-exiled-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of America\u2019s Persian service blacks out Iran\u2019s exiled crown prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Persian service for President Trump&rsquo;s overhauled Voice of America (VOA) is censoring coverage of Iran&rsquo;s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who played a central role in stirring up antigovernment protests that rocked the country earlier this month.&nbsp; Three staff members at VOA told Blue Light News that the adviser overseeing VOA&rsquo;s Persian-language service&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5701358-voa-persian-censors-iran-crown-prince\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Persian service for President Trump&rsquo;s overhauled Voice of America (VOA) is censoring coverage of Iran&rsquo;s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who played a central role in stirring up antigovernment protests that rocked the country earlier this month.&nbsp; Three staff members at VOA told Blue Light News that the adviser overseeing VOA&rsquo;s Persian-language service&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18110","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\/18110","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=18110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}