{"id":17247,"date":"2026-01-12T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:31:05","slug":"iran-says-its-ready-for-war-or-dialogue-as-state-violence-spins-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/12\/iran-says-its-ready-for-war-or-dialogue-as-state-violence-spins-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it\u2019s ready for &#8216;war&#8217; or dialogue as state violence spins out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not getting better. The <em>NY Times<\/em> reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/11\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-protests-economy-response.html\">news of a rise in deadly violence has emerged despite an internet blackout<\/a>, as protests spurred by economic woes have snowballed into a mass movement.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/01\/12\/iran-protests-trump-talks\/\">Some rights groups estimate hundreds of people have been killed in protests in Iran, per <em>WaPo<\/em><\/a>. President Donald Trump said the U.S. may have to \u201cact before a meeting\u201d with Iran. And the BBC is reporting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/cj691w2e840t\">Iranian mourners have been heard chanting &#8216;death to Khamenei&#8217; at one funeral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the regime be about to collapse after state forced reportedly killed hundreds of people during protests?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}