{"id":145087,"date":"2026-01-22T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145087\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:30:08","slug":"how-iranians-in-fresno-feel-about-the-countrys-civil-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145087\/","title":{"rendered":"How Iranians In Fresno Feel About The Country\u2019s Civil Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians began protesting against their government in December, when the country\u2019s currency went into a freefall. In response, the country\u2019s leaders cracked down on protesters, killing thousands by some estimates. On today\u2019s episode, Fresno physician Dr. Mehdi Ghajar explains the conflict through the eyes of Iranian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the latest news headlines: The Trump administration challenges California\u2019s buffer zones around oil and gas wells, and Fresno County expands a local jobs assistance program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranians began protesting against their government in December, when the country\u2019s currency went into a freefall. In response,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8274,512,37810,37811,2174,72481,71306,37812,72482,57654,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-145087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-hospitals","tag-central-valley","tag-central-valley-daily","tag-central-valley-journalism-collaborative","tag-civil","tag-civilians","tag-cvd","tag-cvjc","tag-dr-mehdi-ghajar","tag-elizabeth-arakelian","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}