{"id":9764,"date":"2018-04-20T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2018-04-20T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:40:35","slug":"iran-thousands-protest-in-kazerun-chanting-anti-regime-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/04\/20\/iran-thousands-protest-in-kazerun-chanting-anti-regime-slogans\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Thousands Protest In Kazerun Chanting Anti-Regime Slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of residents of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests\/uprising-of-thousands-of-people-in-kazerun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kazerun<\/a>, especially the brave youths, continued their\u00a0 protests on Friday, April 20, for the fifth consecutive day and chanted anti-regime slogans. According to reports, women extensively participated in the protests. People also gathered in the city&#8217;s grand mosque and denounced the regime&#8217;s plan to divide the city.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was held while the city&#8217;s so-called city council, Friday prayers\u2019 leader and state media had announced that all gatherings were banned until the Kazerun city separation plan is determined.<\/p>\n<p>The angry protesters chanted: &#8220;Honorable Iranians, support us,&#8221; and &#8220;Honorable Kazerun, hail to your dignity,&#8221; and &#8220;The state TV is a disgrace,&#8221; and \u201cBeware of the day when we arm ourselves. If we are betrayed, hell will be raised against the regime&#8221; and \u201cWe are ready to defend Kazerun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the courageous demonstration of the people of Kazerun, some local authorities announced on Wednesday that the plan for the separation of Kazerun was being paused. However, people did not pay any attention to the regime\u2019s promises and demanded the governor respond.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dGiotEYIrg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Thousands of residents of\u00a0Kazerun, especially the brave youths, continued their\u00a0 protests on Friday, April 20, for the fifth consecutive day and chanted anti-regime slogans. According <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/04\/20\/iran-thousands-protest-in-kazerun-chanting-anti-regime-slogans\/\" title=\"Iran: Thousands Protest In Kazerun Chanting Anti-Regime Slogans\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[433,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}