{"id":67645,"date":"2026-02-28T18:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/protesters-rally-across-us-after-iran-strikes-and-reports-of-khamenei-killing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:56:44","slug":"protesters-rally-across-us-after-iran-strikes-and-reports-of-khamenei-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/protesters-rally-across-us-after-iran-strikes-and-reports-of-khamenei-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters rally across US after Iran strikes and reports of Khamenei killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds gather in DC, New York and beyond to denounce Trump\u2019s Iran strikes as an illegal act of war<\/p>\n<p>As news reports circulated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a>\u2019s supreme leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ayatollah-ali-khamenei\">Ali Khamenei<\/a>, had been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, anti-war protesters gathered across the United States, including outside the White House and in New York\u2019s Times Square to voice opposition to US military involvement in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t sanctioned by Congress, so what Trump is doing is on his own terms, it\u2019s making him a fascist and it\u2019s making the country into a fascist state,\u201d said Sue Johnson, a protester.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/khamenei-killing-protests-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds gather in DC, New York and beyond to denounce Trump\u2019s Iran strikes as an illegal act of war As news reports circulated that Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, anti-war protesters gathered across the United States, including outside the White House and in New York\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Protesters rally across US after Iran strikes and reports of Khamenei killing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/protesters-rally-across-us-after-iran-strikes-and-reports-of-khamenei-killing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Protesters rally across US after Iran strikes and reports of Khamenei killing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}