{"id":21221,"date":"2018-11-05T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21221"},"modified":"2018-11-05T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:22:22","slug":"tough-talk-despair-divide-tehrans-streets-as-sanctions-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21221","title":{"rendered":"Tough talk, despair divide Tehran&#8217;s streets as sanctions strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Tehran, Iran (CNN)<\/cite>A sea of protesters gathers outside the former US embassy in Iran. Hardline supporters of Iran&#8217;s government, bused into the center of Tehran for the yearly rally, are marching past wall-sized graffiti of a skull-faced Statue of Liberty while chanting &#8220;down with the USA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The demonstration commemorates Iranian students&#8217; 1979 raiding of the embassy and their seizure of 54 American diplomats and citizens &#8212; an act that severed relations between the two countries just months after Iran deposed the US-backed Shah and established itself as an Islamic Republic.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Near the protest platform where Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards commander Mohamad Ali Jafari is about to deliver a speech, six men re-enact a hostage-taking scene. All except one is covered in silver paint. An actor wearing police glasses draws his pistol, pointing it at a man painted in gold, a portrait of US President Donald Trump held to his face.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Iran (CNN)A sea of protesters gathers outside the former US embassy in Iran. Hardline supporters of Iran&#8217;s government, bused into the center of Tehran for the yearly rally, are marching past wall-sized graffiti of a skull-faced Statue of Liberty while chanting &#8220;down with the USA.&#8221;The demonstration commemorates Iranian students&#8217; 1979 raiding of the embassy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}