{"id":85425,"date":"2026-01-09T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/irans-supreme-leader-vows-to-continue-protest-crackdown-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:43:51","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-vows-to-continue-protest-crackdown-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/irans-supreme-leader-vows-to-continue-protest-crackdown-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s supreme leader vows to continue protest crackdown | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has lashed out at anti-government protesters after almost two weeks of demonstrations across the <!--more--> country.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed protesters as &#8220;a bunch of vandals&#8221; trying to &#8220;please&#8221; US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by the collapse of the Iranian currency &#8211; since then human rights groups have said demonstrations have spread to dozens of other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Later, a monitoring group reported a nationwide internet blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has lashed out at anti-government protesters after almost two weeks of demonstrations across the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}