{"id":17873,"date":"2010-02-12T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/iran_crushes_opposition_protests_with_violence\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:04:09","slug":"iran_crushes_opposition_protests_with_violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17873","title":{"rendered":"Iran crushes opposition protests with violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s regime thwarted the opposition\u2019s hopes of turning the 31st anniversary celebrations of the Islamic revolution into another massive protest today.<\/p>\n<p>It out-manoeuvred the so-called Green movement by swamping the official proceedings with huge numbers of its own supporters, preventing the media from covering anything else and blanketing the rest of the capital with security forces who forcefully suppressed the opposition\u2019s relatively muted demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>President Ahmadinejad also sought to grab the headlines and divert attention from the protests by announcing that Iran had produced its first stock of 20 per cent-enriched uranium. He declared that Iran was now a \u201cnuclear state\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article7023684.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s regime thwarted the opposition\u2019s hopes of turning the 31st anniversary celebrations of the Islamic revolution into another massive protest today. It out-manoeuvred the so-called Green movement by swamping the official proceedings with huge numbers of its own supporters, preventing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17873\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,564,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-iran","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}