{"id":401959,"date":"2026-01-09T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:27:09","slug":"bbc-verify-live-tracking-spread-of-iran-protests-during-internet-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401959\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Tracking spread of Iran protests during internet blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday on BBC Verify Livepublished at 10:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Today we\u2019re tracking the spread of anti-government protests across Tehran and other cities in Iran during the internet blackout. We\u2019ve been working with our with our colleagues at BBC Persian to verify videos and images of both peaceful demonstrations and violent clashes with Iran\u2019s security forces. More than 30 protesters and eight security personnel have now been killed, according to US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA), and around 2,270 protesters arrested.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re also looking at the missile strike Russia made overnight on Kyiv. Russia&#8217;s defence ministry say it\u2019s a response to a drone attack on Vladimir Putin&#8217;s residence in December, which Kyiv denies carrying out. We\u2019re speaking to weapons experts to find out more about the Oreshnik missile which Moscow is reported to have used and which has only been deployed once before in this war. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by an ICE agent two days ago, we\u2019re looking into a shooting incident involving a Border Patrol agent in Portland, Oregon, that left two people wounded yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BBC Verify logo on a blue background\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4492b21c-4f90-48f9-b0d1-96abf23caa2c.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"315\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday on BBC Verify Livepublished at 10:43 GMT 10:43 GMT Thomas CopelandBBC Verify Live journalist Today we\u2019re tracking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-401959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}