{"id":229101,"date":"2026-01-12T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229101\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:15:09","slug":"truck-ploughs-into-crowd-of-protesters-gathered-in-los-angeles-for-demonstration-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229101\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck ploughs into crowd of protesters gathered in Los Angeles for demonstration on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV0ZMK_AFP__20260109__928G8UY__v1__HighRes__BritainIranUsIsraelConflict_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"An anti-Iranian regime protester holds up a \" free=\"\" iran=\"\" placard=\"\" during=\"\" a=\"\" gathering=\"\" outside=\"\" the=\"\" iranian=\"\" embassy=\"\" central=\"\" london=\"\" on=\"\" january=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThere have been protests around the world to show support for protesters in Iran. (File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n<p>A truck ploughed into a crowd gathered in Los Angeles to show support for Iranian protesters, the KNBC news outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that hundreds of people marched in Westwood, a Los Angeles suburb. It was not clear if there were any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department said two people had been evaluated at the scene but did not want treatment or transport to a medical centre.<\/p>\n<p>It said firefighters and paramedics were responding to reports of a third person in the general area needing help.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the size of the crowd it said there were delays in making contact with the third person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reuters\/RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been protests around the world to show support for protesters in Iran. (File photo) Photo: AFP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-229101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}