{"id":321945,"date":"2026-01-12T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=321945"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:20:38","slug":"iran-declared-three-days-of-national-mourning-for-martyrs-killed-in-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=321945","title":{"rendered":"Iran Declares Three Days Of National Mourning For &#8220;Martyrs&#8221; Killed In Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Jan 12 (NNN-IRNA) &#8211; The Iranian government declared yesterday, three days of national mourning, for &#8220;martyrs&#8221; killed in recent protests, state broadcaster reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move came amid rising fatalities from two weeks of nationwide unrest, which Iran has blamed on the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that, at least 111 members of Iran&#8217;s security forces have been killed in clashes, since the protests initially erupted, over a sharp depreciation of the rial and sweeping subsidy reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the unrest, the government, yesterday, called for nationwide protests in support of the Islamic Republic, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a televised interview with the state broadcaster IRIB, yesterday, Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian stated that, his government is prepared to address the economic grievances driving the protests, but warned that &#8220;rioters&#8221; will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pezeshkian also detailed the government&#8217;s plans to implement a major subsidy reform programme, aimed at stabilising markets, boosting production, and increasing purchasing power, providing an update on its current progress.&#8211; NNN-IRNA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Jan 12 (NNN-IRNA) &#8211; The Iranian government declared yesterday, three days of national mourning, for &#8220;martyrs&#8221; killed in recent protests, state broadcaster reported. The move came amid rising fatalities from two weeks of nationwide unrest, which Iran has blamed on the United States and Israel. Semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that, at least 111 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":321955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321953,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321945\/revisions\/321953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}