{"id":374873,"date":"2026-01-17T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:29:07","slug":"bbc-reports-from-iranian-armenian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374873\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC reports from Iranian-Armenian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For over two weeks, demonstrations rocked Iran and, according to a human rights group, more than 2,600 protesters have been killed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Protesters have been met with deadly force by authorities, masked by a near total shutdown of the internet and communication services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reporting from the Iranian-Armenian border, the BBC&#8217;s Middle East correspondent, Hugo Bachega, described the &#8220;anger and frustration&#8221; of Iranians and their concerns over the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are simply terrified to join the demonstrations,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Iranian government has called the protests &#8220;riots&#8221; backed by Iran&#8217;s enemies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The demonstrations started over the economy on 28 December and turned into calls for the end of the rule of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For over two weeks, demonstrations rocked Iran and, according to a human rights group, more than 2,600 protesters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-374873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374873","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=374873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}