Anti-government forces took to the streets of Tehran today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They were using the anniversary of the Islamic revolution as an excuse to vent their anger.\u00a0\u00a0 But Iranian authorities were ready for them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Arrests were reportedly made,opposition leaders were attacked, and the internet was blocked.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A journalist whose identity was withheld for safety reasons put it this way : \u201cThis time they were serious.\u00a0 This time they meant business.\u201d<\/p>\n
This as the government \u201cturned out\u201d hundreds of thousands for a state-organized commemoration of the date.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They heard Iranian President Ahmadinejad declare Iran a \u201cnuclear state\u201d by enriching a batch of uranium to 20 per cent.<\/p>\n
He went further :<\/p>\n
\u201cOur nation has the courage to say if it wanted to build a nuclear bomb it could built it\u2026and not fear the west.\u201d<\/p>\n
An official from a member state of the UN nuclear watchdog agency the IAEA told Fox News he was skeptical about the claim.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s just \u2018speech-ifying,\u2019\u201d he noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for the state of the opposition movement, this was supposed to be a make or break day.\u00a0\u00a0 The Iranian journalist told Fox News many activists were intimidated and stayed in their homes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Supporters hope the critics were not \u201cbroken\u201d today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anti-government forces took to the streets of Tehran today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They were using the anniversary of the Islamic revolution as an excuse to vent their anger.\u00a0\u00a0 But Iranian authorities were ready for them.\u00a0\u00a0 Arrests were reportedly made,opposition leaders were attacked, and the internet was blocked.\u00a0\u00a0 A journalist whose identity was withheld for safety reasons put it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}