{"id":225889,"date":"2026-03-03T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-iran-protest-in-lagos-sokoto-gombe-others\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:54:50","slug":"nigeria-iran-protest-in-lagos-sokoto-gombe-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-iran-protest-in-lagos-sokoto-gombe-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Iran &#8211; Protest in Lagos, Sokoto, Gombe, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shi&#8217;ites, on Monday, continued their protest against the United States and Israel attacks on Iran and the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader since 1989, was killed in the opening salvo of a massive US and Israeli attack, sparking a new wave of retaliatory missile strikes from Tehran on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Iranian state television confirmed Khamenei&#8217;s death early Sunday, hours after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603030373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shi&#8217;ites, on Monday, continued their protest against the United States and Israel attacks on Iran and the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader since 1989, was killed in the opening salvo of a massive US and Israeli attack, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,364,7539,2477,257,4687,393,2194,8447,254],"class_list":["post-225889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gombe","tag-iran","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-protest","tag-sokoto","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}