{"id":427485,"date":"2026-02-15T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427485\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:33:09","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-join-iran-protests-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427485\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands join Iran protests around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Toronto, where an estimated 350,000 joined a demonstration, participants told BBC Persian they were there to speak out on behalf of friends and family inside Iran.<\/p>\n

Street protests broke out in Iran on 28 December, initially sparked by economic turmoil and fuelled by long-running discontent with the country’s leaders.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations spread to more than 100 cities and towns across all of Iran’s provinces. <\/p>\n

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has confirmed the deaths of 6,872 protesters, including more than 150 children.<\/p>\n

Iranian authorities have acknowledged that at least 3,000 people were killed<\/a>, but have claimed some were members of the country’s security forces.<\/p>\n

Many demonstrators in Iran have chanted Pahlavi’s name and called for his return to political leadership.<\/p>\n

Groomed from birth to inherit the throne, Pahlavi was 18 years old when the 1979 Islamic revolution swept away his father’s monarchy.<\/p>\n

Almost 50 years later, Pahlavi is once again seeking to shape his country’s future.<\/p>\n

But critics question whether his vision for Iran would ultimately lead to a democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Toronto, where an estimated 350,000 joined a demonstration, participants told BBC Persian they were there to speak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-427485","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\/427485","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=427485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}