{"id":19404,"date":"2026-03-14T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19404\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:45:07","slug":"israel-targeting-irans-security-forces-may-aim-to-encourage-uprising-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19404\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Israel targeting Iran\u2019s security forces may aim to encourage uprising\u2019 | Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/quotable\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quotable<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute, says Israeli strikes on Iranian security forces may be aimed at weakening the regime\u2019s ability to suppress protests, though the broader goal remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quotable Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute, says Israeli strikes on Iranian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34,37,49,87,4308,88,51,57,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-19404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-newsfeed","12":"tag-protests","13":"tag-show-types","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us-canada","16":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116228779048275172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}