{"id":365992,"date":"2026-01-12T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365992\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:01:08","slug":"iran-trump-says-hes-considering-very-strong-options-in-iran-as-hundreds-of-protesters-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365992\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Trump says he&#8217;s considering &#8216;very strong options&#8217; in Iran as hundreds of protesters killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why it&#8217;s difficult to report on what&#8217;s happening in Iranpublished at 09:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The internet blackout in Iran has entered its 84th hour, according to internet tracking agency NetBlocks in its latest update at 04:36 GMT this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to web security firm Cloudflare, widespread service disruptions have been continuing since Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While internet blackouts aren\u2019t unusual in Iran, Amir Rashidi, director of internet security and digital rights at the non-profit Miaan Group, last week told the BBC he has never seen conditions like this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One internet researcher, Alireza Manafi, says the only likely way to connect to the outside world was via Starlink satellite, but warned users to be cautious as such connections could potentially be traced by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC and most other international news organisations are unable to report from inside Iran, and the blackout means gathering accurate, timely information about the unfolding situation in Iran has become difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A US-based organisation, the Human Rights Activist News Agency, has been providing updates on the death toll of both protesters and security forces, which is says it collects from &#8220;various sources&#8221; &#8211; while BBC Persian has spoken to the families of several people killed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A chart showing internet connectivity in Iran since 5 January. The line alternates between around 90% and 100% connectivity until the evening of Thursday 9 January when it suddenly plummets to around 1%, where it still remains. The source of the data is NetBlocks.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a0bd0f14-ef43-408e-bff1-f0c8d9a0c488.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"1226\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why it&#8217;s difficult to report on what&#8217;s happening in Iranpublished at 09:27 GMT 09:27 GMT The internet blackout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-365992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}