{"id":46745,"date":"2026-02-15T03:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-in-tehran-sees-governments-political-reply-to-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:54:24","slug":"bbc-in-tehran-sees-governments-political-reply-to-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-in-tehran-sees-governments-political-reply-to-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC in Tehran sees government&#8217;s &#8216;political reply&#8217; to protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Authorities in Iran have put on a show of strength to mark the 47th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, weeks after they used unprecedented force to put down anti-government protests. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC is visiting Tehran for the first time since the crackdown, during which at least 6,490 protesters were killed across the country, according to human rights activists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC&#8217;s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says the bunting lining the capital&#8217;s streets and large crowds of government supporters embody the image of the nation the government wants to see on the streets: Iranians coming out to show their support for the Islamic Republic and the revolution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Our correspondent is reporting from Tehran on condition that none of her material is used on the BBC&#8217;s Persian Service. These restrictions apply to all international media organisations operating in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cewz2lxq2gvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Iran have put on a show of strength to mark the 47th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, weeks after they used unprecedented force to put down anti-government protests. The BBC is visiting Tehran for the first time since the crackdown, during which at least 6,490 protesters were killed across the country, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46747,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46745\/revisions\/46747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}