{"id":20306,"date":"2019-11-17T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2019-11-17T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:48:05","slug":"statement-from-the-press-secretary-regarding-protests-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20306","title":{"rendered":"Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Protests in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main id=\"main-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"page-header page-header--small-title\">\n<div class=\"page-header__wrap\">\n<div class=\"meta meta--mobile-wrap\">\n<p class=\"meta__date\">\u00a0<span class=\"meta__label\">Issued on:<\/span>\u00a0<time>November 17, 2019<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<div class=\"page-content__wrap\">\n<div class=\"page-content__content editor\">\n<p>The United States supports the Iranian people in their peaceful protests against the regime\u00a0that is supposed to lead them. \u00a0We condemn the lethal force\u00a0and\u00a0severe\u00a0communications restrictions\u00a0used against demonstrators. \u00a0Tehran\u00a0has\u00a0fanatically pursued nuclear weapons\u00a0and missile programs,\u00a0and supported terrorism, turning\u00a0a proud nation into another cautionary tale of what happens when a ruling class abandons its people and embarks on a crusade for personal power and riches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<footer class=\"footer\">\n<div class=\"footer__wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Issued on:\u00a0November 17, 2019 The United&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20307,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions\/20307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}