{"id":38906,"date":"2021-07-25T23:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38906"},"modified":"2021-07-25T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:06:22","slug":"deadly-street-protests-over-iran-water-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38906","title":{"rendered":"Deadly street protests over Iran water shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Security forces in Iran&#8217;s southwest Khuzestan province have been firing bullets at people protesting due to severe water shortages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The shortages are happening in one of the country&#8217;s hottest regions, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Iran has called claims of a crackdown on protesters, by the UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet, &#8220;false accusations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But the protests have developed into dissent against the government, the country&#8217;s Supreme Leader and have spread to different cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC Persian&#8217;s Rana Rahimpour explains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-57948717\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces in Iran&#8217;s southwest Khuzestan province have been firing bullets at people protesting due to severe water shortages. The shortages are happening in one of the country&#8217;s hottest regions, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius. Iran has called claims of a crackdown on protesters, by the UN rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119567991_p09qdfg2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}