{"id":230658,"date":"2026-01-10T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230658\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:27:07","slug":"iran-protests-fears-and-hopes-for-londoners-families-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230658\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran protests: Fears and hopes for Londoners&#8217; families at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/clyzjn0w9l2t\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As more anti-government demonstrations erupted<\/a>, there were reports of violence against protestors by security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Alimardani does not know if any of her relatives have been caught up in the protests &#8211; she been unable to contact them since the internet was cut off in Iran late on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s been a &#8220;constant blackout,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The messages on WhatsApp still just have one check mark. They haven&#8217;t delivered yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very anxiety inducing, not having access to information, not knowing if your loved ones participated [in the protests] or if they&#8217;re okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s indications that it has been quite violent and there is a significant death toll  so it&#8217;s scary knowing that everyone was excited to be out on the streets, everyone was extremely courageous but that courage often comes with a massive price and that is very worrying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But for those of us who are outside of Iran, we are physically safe and privileged but our hearts are in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As more anti-government demonstrations erupted, there were reports of violence against protestors by security forces. But Alimardani does&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-230658","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}