{"id":24057,"date":"2011-01-18T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_amin_saikal_the_similarities_between_iranian_and_tunisian_revolts_canno\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:00:37","slug":"smh_amin_saikal_the_similarities_between_iranian_and_tunisian_revolts_canno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24057","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Amin Saikal: The Similarities between Iranian and Tunisian revolts cannot be ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and the EU seem to have abandoned their goal of bringing democracy to the Arab world &#8211; which was once promoted fervently as a core issue in their Middle East policy &#8211; in favour of what is called security and development. Yet this is unlikely to halt people&#8217;s quest for democratic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisian uprising may fail to achieve its goals but the struggle between the forces of authoritarianism and democracy will be a dominant factor in the Muslim Middle East in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/similarities-between-iranian-and-tunisian-revolts-cannot-be-ignored-20110116-19seo.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and the EU seem to have abandoned their goal of bringing democracy to the Arab world &#8211; which was once promoted fervently as a core issue in their Middle East policy &#8211; in favour of what is called<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24057\">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":[39,40,50,202,143,564,203,151,534,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-tunisia","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057","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=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}