{"id":4871,"date":"2026-01-09T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/iran-internet-cuts-a-classic-ploy-by-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:36:01","slug":"iran-internet-cuts-a-classic-ploy-by-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/iran-internet-cuts-a-classic-ploy-by-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran internet cuts a \u201cclassic ploy\u201d by leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class>\n<header><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/quotable\/\"><span>Quotable<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n<p>Sina Azodi on Iran\u2019s escalating protests and the use of internet shutdowns to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Sina Azod, a professor of Middle East Politics at George Washington University, talks about the escalating protests in Iran and the use of internet shutdowns to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Published On 9 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotable Sina Azodi on Iran\u2019s escalating protests and the use of internet shutdowns to silence dissent. Sina Azod, a professor of Middle East Politics at George Washington University, talks about the escalating protests in Iran and the use of internet shutdowns to silence dissent. Published On 9 Jan 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}