{"id":541,"date":"2009-07-24T14:20:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2009-07-27T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T20:15:15","slug":"interesting-new-twist-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/07\/24\/interesting-new-twist-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting New Twist in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/8168202.stm\">BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian leader &#8216;orders dismissal&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis shows clearly who is pulling the strings (and what an asshole he is). But it also raises the possibility of finding some sympathy for Ahmadinejad as being forced into a higher level of extremism than he actually wants. Particularly interesting is the observation that &#8220;the rift between the ayatollah and Mr Ahmadinejad comes at a precarious time for the president ..(who).. needs hardline support against the reformist opposition who continue to maintain that his re-election was fraudulent&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is there any chance that this might drive Ahmanadinejad to an accommodation with Rasfanjani which might give him the strength to lead the whatsit council to dump the obnoxious SL?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian leader &#8216;orders dismissal&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,90],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-ahmadinejad","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}