{"id":17387,"date":"2026-01-14T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:37:11","slug":"the-death-toll-from-a-crackdown-on-protests-in-iran-jumps-to-over-2500-activists-say-and-trump-saber-rattles-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/14\/the-death-toll-from-a-crackdown-on-protests-in-iran-jumps-to-over-2500-activists-say-and-trump-saber-rattles-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The death toll from a crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to over 2,500, activists say, and Trump saber-rattles yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/14\/g-s1-105949\/death-toll-crackdown-protests-iran\">NPR<\/a> headline: The death toll from a crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to over 2,500, activists say&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/trump-iran-protest-execution-death-toll-crackdown-us-military-rcna253952\">NBC News<\/a> headline: &#8220;U.S. evacuating troops from airbase in Qatar ahead of possible Iran military action&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/TIRbC#selection-599.0-599.59\">BBC<\/a> headline: &#8220;Trump vows &#8216;very strong action&#8217; if Iran executes protesters&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/01\/14\/iran-reza-pahlavi-opposition-protests\/\"><em>WaPo<\/em><\/a> headline: &#8220;Iran\u2019s opposition is battling to oust the rulers but hobbled by divisions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis intensifies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17387","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\/17387","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=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17391,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions\/17391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}