{"id":342646,"date":"2026-01-04T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=342646"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:43:48","slug":"iran-protests-hit-eighth-day-with-deadly-clashes-and-monarchy-chants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=342646","title":{"rendered":"Iran Protests Hit Eighth Day with Deadly Clashes and Monarchy Chants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Protests sparked by soaring inflation have spread to over 100 sites across 22 Iranian provinces by January 3, with crowds chanting for Reza Pahlavi&#8217;s return and waving pre-1979 flags. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security forces cracked down hard, killing at least 10 to 37 people that day, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=saghar-etemadi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Saghar Etemadi\">Saghar Etemadi<\/a> (pictured), while raiding hospitals to arrest the wounded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"568\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 320 \/ 568;\" width=\"320\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pOQueDb7KH8sAyfH.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exiled Crown Prince Pahlavi urged troops to join protesters against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=ayatollah-ali-khamenei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\">Supreme Leader Khamenei<\/a>, who vowed to crush the riots, as unverified reports of seized cities circulate amid internet blackouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests sparked by soaring inflation have spread to over 100 sites across 22 Iranian provinces by January 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":342652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,790,4387],"tags":[19140,19141,19142],"class_list":["post-342646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-iran","category-protests","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-reza-pahlavi","tag-saghar-etemadi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342653,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342646\/revisions\/342653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}