{"id":191862,"date":"2009-06-15T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/15\/iran-in-turmoil\/"},"modified":"2009-06-15T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:29:00","slug":"iran-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/15\/iran-in-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clemons, who knows about this stuff, has been talking to a number of his sources about what is going on in Iran, and that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/iran_there_will\/\">a real possibility of political assassination on both sides<\/a>, along with levels of violence not seen since the early days of the Islamic revolution there.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Guardian is reporting that there are over 100,000 protesting the election in Terhran, despite it being banned by the Interior Ministry and that Iran&#8217;s &#8220;Supreme Leader&#8221;, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jun\/15\/iran-opposition-rally-banned-mousavi\">now ordered an investigation into allegations of vote fraud<\/a>, which seems to be quite a climb down for him, as he certified Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s victory only hours after the polls closed, as opposed to the 3 day period normally required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clemons, who knows about this stuff, has been talking to a number of his sources about what is going on in Iran, and that there is a real possibility of political assassination on both sides, along with levels of violence not seen since the early days of the Islamic revolution there. Meanwhile, the Guardian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}