{"id":389,"date":"2007-10-13T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=389"},"modified":"2007-10-13T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T21:21:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"On The Line: Iran&#8217;s Revolution &#8211; 25 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Reformist law makers in Iran called the controlled February 20th elections there a \u201csham\u201d that \u201cDeprived the people there of the most basic right &#8212; the right to choose and be chosen.\u201d More than two thousand reform candidates were blocked from running for Parliament by the twelve-member Guardian Council, an unelected group that wields enormous power in Iran\u2019s theocratic system. Parliamentary leaders wrote a six-page open letter to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that said bluntly: \u201cYou lead a system in which legitimate freedoms and the rights of the people are being trampled on in the name of Islam.\u201d The lawmakers called the election \u201cunfair\u201d and \u201cvastly illegal\u201d. Many others announced a boycott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/uspolicy\/archive\/2004-02\/a-2004-02-27-4-1.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reformist law makers in Iran called the controlled February 20th elections there a \u201csham\u201d that \u201cDeprived the people there of the most basic right &#8212; the right to choose and be chosen.\u201d More than two thousand reform candidates were blocked from running for Parliament by the twelve-member Guardian Council, an unelected group that wields enormous [&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-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politiks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}