{"id":21210,"date":"2026-01-22T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:35:45","slug":"why-the-protests-in-iran-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21210","title":{"rendered":"Why the Protests in Iran Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iran brutally slaughtered its protestors. Up to 20,000 were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s revolutionary guards are stronger than its regular military and they are loyal to the supreme leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump literally said that &#8220;help is on its way&#8221;, and many protesters said they expected Trump to help. When he didn&#8217;t, the ones that were still alive, felt betrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A US intervention would likely cause a retaliatory strike, and the US wasn&#8217;t prepared for such attacks because it was using resources around Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local partner countries warned against a US intervention, fearing a regional conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why the Protests in Iran Failed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Bt6K0Jo0xo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran brutally slaughtered its protestors. Up to 20,000 were killed. <\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s revolutionary guards are stronger than its regular military and they are loyal to the supreme leader. <\/p>\n<p>Trump literally said that &#8220;help is on its way&#8221;, and many protesters said they expected Trump to help. When he didn&#8217;t, the ones that were still alive, felt betrayed. <\/p>\n<p>A US intervention would likely cause a retaliatory strike, and the US wasn&#8217;t prepared for such attacks because it was using resources around Venezuela. <\/p>\n<p>Local partner countries warned against a US intervention, fearing a regional conflict. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Bt6K0Jo0xo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,660,156,391,972,941,942,362,1983,661],"class_list":["post-21210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-murder","tag-protest","tag-protesting","tag-protests","tag-slaughter","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21211,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions\/21211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}