{"id":696320,"date":"2026-01-14T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696320\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:34:08","slug":"iran-protests-bbc-hears-from-families-of-demonstrators-killed-in-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696320\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran protests: BBC hears from families of demonstrators killed in crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of death and injury<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Heading home after joining a protest in Tehran on 8 January, Reza put his arms around his wife Maryam to protect her. &#8220;Suddenly, I felt my arm go light \u2013 there was only her jacket in my hands,&#8221; he told a family member, who later spoke to BBC Persian. Maryam had been fatally shot &#8211; and they had no idea where the bullet had come from.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reza carried Maryam&#8217;s body for an hour and a half. Exhausted, he sat down in an alley. After a short time, the door of a nearby house opened. The people who lived there took them into their garage, brought a white sheet and wrapped Maryam&#8217;s body in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Days before Maryam headed out to the protests, she had told her children &#8211; aged seven and 14 \u2013 about what was happening in their country. &#8220;Sometimes parents go to the protests and don&#8217;t come back,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My blood, and yours, is no more precious than anyone else&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reza and Maryam&#8217;s names have been changed for safety reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of death and injury Heading home after joining a protest in Tehran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-696320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115895839419183885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}