{"id":3869,"date":"2010-02-11T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T08:51:19","slug":"iran-braced-for-anniversary-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/iran-braced-for-anniversary-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran braced for anniversary unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/iran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3870\" title=\"Iran braced for anniversary unrest \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/iran-280x175.jpg\" alt=\"Iran braced for anniversary unrest \" width=\"280\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/iran-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/iran.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution amid heavy security to prevent opposition protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaders of Iran&#8217;s so-called Green Movement have called for its supporters to take part in Thursday&#8217;s events, but it was not immediately clear if there would be any anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Mehdi Karroubi, one of the defeated reformist candidates in last year&#8217;s disputed presidential poll, told Al Jazeera that this father&#8217;s car had been attacked by security forces on his way to a rally.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition Jaras website reported that Karroubi was not seriously hurt when the windows of his car were smashed. Mohammed Khatami, a former president, was also reportedly attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Police said before the anniversary that a number of opposition figures had been arrested and security forces were ready to prevent any incidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fully prepared for holding a safe and glorious rally,&#8221; Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Iran&#8217;s national police chief, told the semi-official Fars news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are closely watching the activities of the sedition movement and several people who were preparing to disrupt the February 11 rallies were arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 15)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution amid heavy security to prevent opposition protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,37],"tags":[4914,3769,4928,4926,1142],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-middle-east","tag-esmail-ahmadi-moghaddam","tag-green-movement","tag-iran-anniversary","tag-mehdi-karroubi","tag-mohammed-khatami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}