{"id":24262,"date":"2011-01-29T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm-egypts_crackdown_on_protesters_evokes_irans_heavy_hand_in_2009_unrest\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:00:07","slug":"csm-egypts_crackdown_on_protesters_evokes_irans_heavy_hand_in_2009_unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24262","title":{"rendered":"CSM&#8211;Egypt&#39;s crackdown on protesters evokes Iran&#39;s heavy hand in 2009 unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptians say their growing protest against the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak was sparked by the Tunisia uprising that toppled another veteran authoritarian leader two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>But while ordinary Egyptians have been inspired by the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the forceful response of Mr. Mubarak\u2019s regime more resembles how Iran successfully \u201d\u201c if mercilessly \u201d\u201c dealt with widespread protests in 2009 after the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who followed Iran&#8217;s violent crackdown then may feel a twinge of d\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vu as they watched rows of Egyptian riot police and plainclothes security agents battle Egyptians with batons, tear gas, and water cannons in their bid to halt five days of unprecedented protest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2011\/0129\/Egypt-s-crackdown-on-protesters-evokes-Iran-s-heavy-hand-in-2009-unrest\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptians say their growing protest against the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak was sparked by the Tunisia uprising that toppled another veteran authoritarian leader two weeks ago. But while ordinary Egyptians have been inspired by the ouster of Zine El<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24262\">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":[39,40,50,560,114,203,151,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262","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=24262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}