{"id":45612,"date":"2026-01-11T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=45612"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:39","slug":"iran-security-forces-reportedly-suffer-heavy-losses-in-isfahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=45612","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Security Forces Reportedly Suffer Heavy Losses in Isfahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Isfahan, Iran<\/strong> \u2013 Thirty members of Iranian security forces and police have reportedly been killed in the province of Isfahan amid ongoing protests, according to state television reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian state broadcaster cited sources indicating the deaths occurred during the recent unrest. Separately, the commander of Iran&#8217;s special police forces confirmed the deaths of eight officers during what he described as \u201criots\u201d on Thursday and Friday of last week.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the reported casualties, the Iranian Red Crescent stated that one of its members was killed during an attack on relief buildings in the northern city of Gorgan.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these reports, Iran&#8217;s Interior Minister has asserted that the \u201criots are gradually subsiding.\u201d However, details remain scarce due to widespread internet disruptions across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The protests, now in their fifteenth consecutive day, are reportedly driven by public discontent over the country&#8217;s economic conditions. The internet blackout has severely limited the flow of information, making independent verification of events on the ground extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch<\/em> continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=44\">More News articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isfahan, Iran \u2013 Thirty members of Iranian security forces and police have reportedly been killed in the province of Isfahan amid ongoing protests, according to state television reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian state broadcaster cited sources indicating the deaths occurred during the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45614,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612\/revisions\/45614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}