{"id":26251,"date":"2026-01-02T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26251"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:55:44","slug":"death-to-the-dictator-iranians-defy-regime-for-fourth-consecutive-day-amid-economic-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/death-to-the-dictator-iranians-defy-regime-for-fourth-consecutive-day-amid-economic-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death To The Dictator:\u2019 Iranians Defy Regime For Fourth Consecutive Day Amid Economic Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Iranians closed out 2025 on Wednesday with a fourth consecutive day of protests, as demonstrations sparked by the country\u2019s collapsing economy escalated into open anti-regime unrest.<\/p>\n<p>The protests, beginning in Tehran, have engulfed university campuses and led to merchants shutting down their stores to join in all over the country,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/31\/we-want-the-mullahs-gone-economic-crisis-sparks-biggest-protests-in-iran-since-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian reported.<\/a>\u00a0Videos posted to social media show protesters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlirezaNader\/status\/2005640183526686805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chanting<\/a>\u00a0\u2018Freedom\u201d and \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/death-to-the-dictator-iranians-defy-regime-for-fourth-consecutive-day-amid-economic-turmoil?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=19&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98Death+To+The+Dictator%3A%E2%80%99+Iranians+Defy+Regime+For+Fourth+Consecutive+Day+Amid+Economic+Turmoil\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Iranians closed out 2025 on Wednesday with a fourth consecutive day of protests, as demonstrations sparked by the country\u2019s collapsing economy escalated into open anti-regime unrest. The protests, beginning in Tehran, have engulfed university campuses and led to merchants shutting down their stores to join in all over the country,\u00a0The Guardian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/death-to-the-dictator-iranians-defy-regime-for-fourth-consecutive-day-amid-economic-turmoil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Death To The Dictator:\u2019 Iranians Defy Regime For Fourth Consecutive Day Amid Economic Turmoil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26252,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251\/revisions\/26252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}