{"id":388,"date":"2007-10-14T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=388"},"modified":"2007-10-14T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:20:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"What Was Once a Revolutionary Guard Is Now Just a Mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mohsen Sazegara.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in October 1978, none of us in exile with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imagined that victory for the Islamic Revolution would be attained only a few months later. It was during those days in Neuf-le-Chateau that the notion of starting a \u201cpeople\u2019s army\u201d first took hold, and expecting that our battle would be a long one, we took as models for our soon-to-be established army the forces in Algeria and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>But on February 1, 1979, we stepped off a plane from France into Tehran, and 10 days later we were in power. Suddenly we had a position to protect, and the model for our people\u2019s army changed dramatically. It seemed more appropriate to emulate such forces as the Swiss Armed Forces, United States National Guard or Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sazegara.net\/english\/archives\/2007\/03\/what_was_once_a_revolutionary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mohsen Sazegara. Back in October 1978, none of us in exile with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imagined that victory for the Islamic Revolution would be attained only a few months later. It was during those days in Neuf-le-Chateau that the notion of starting a \u201cpeople\u2019s army\u201d first took hold, and expecting that our battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politiks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}