{"id":2844,"date":"2009-12-28T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T08:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2009-12-28T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T08:31:42","slug":"tehran-street-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/tehran-street-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran street battles: At least 15 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tehran-street.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2845\" title=\"At least 15 dead in Tehran street battles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tehran-street-280x167.jpg\" alt=\"At least 15 dead in Tehran street battles\" width=\"280\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tehran-street-280x167.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tehran-street.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>At least fifteen anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran\u2019s opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the regime and the so-called Green Movement finally erupted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early reports put the number of dead at five, but as clashes continued late into the night, Iranian state television reported that the number of dead had risen to 15. The Ministry of Intelligence said more than 10 were members of &#8220;anti-revolutionary terrorist&#8221; groups.<\/p>\n<p>The other five who died during the bitter clashes in the Iranian capital were killed by &#8220;terrorist groups,&#8221; Iranian TV claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts heralded the start of what could be a bloody endgame as hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters poured on to the streets of Tehran and other cities and fought running battles with the security forces. Opposition websites claimed that some policemen had refused to fire on demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign journalists have been banned from Iran but Western newsrooms were inundated with mobile telephone footage of astonishing scenes: jubilant demonstrators attacking riot police and Basij militiamen, protesters gleefully setting light to a police station, Basiji building and motorbikes being captured from the security forces, detained protesters being freed from a police van while colleagues are carried away with blood pouring from gunshot wounds. Dozens were injured and more than 300 arrested. \u201cThe gloves are off. There is no question about that,\u201d said one analyst. Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, said: \u201cNo one can now doubt that change is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least fifteen anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran\u2019s opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the regime and the so-called Green Movement finally erupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118],"tags":[3769,3767,3772,3773,3771],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-green-movement","tag-hossein-mousavi","tag-tehran-15-dead","tag-tehran-street-battles","tag-the-ministry-of-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}