{"id":17323,"date":"2026-01-13T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17323"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:27:23","slug":"inside-irans-brutal-crackdown-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/13\/inside-irans-brutal-crackdown-on-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Iran&#8217;s Brutal Crackdown on Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/jan\/13\/iran-protest-crackdown-regime-crisis-us-donald-trump-tariffs-latest-updates\">the &#8220;cycle of horrific violence&#8221; in Iran must end<\/a> as one official says that 2,000 have been killed in the Islamofascist regime&#8217;s crackdown on protests over economic chaos. <a href=\"https:\/\/sundayguardianlive.com\/world\/2000-official-deaths-or-12000-claimed-by-opposition-iran-protest-death-toll-dispute-raises-alarming-questions-amid-media-blackout-164434\/\">Other reports suggest the toll is much higher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regime has informed the family of activist Erfan Soltani <a href=\"https:\/\/sundayguardianlive.com\/world\/denied-a-lawyer-denied-a-trial-who-is-erfan-soltani-iranian-protester-to-face-first-reported-hanging-in-48-hours-164352\/\">that they intend to execute him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t stop the truth: Iranian authorities may have imposed an information blackout as they try to quell protests, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/13\/world\/middleeast\/iran-protester-deaths.html\">eyewitness testimony and videos conveying the deadly toll have made their way out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamofascist regime isn&#8217;t letting up \u2013 as protesters continue to demand change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17323","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\/17323","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=17323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17332,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17323\/revisions\/17332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}