{"id":25141,"date":"2011-03-17T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kingdom_greeting_gulf_soldiers_is_seen_as_new_front_on_sunni-shiite_divide\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:40:42","slug":"kingdom_greeting_gulf_soldiers_is_seen_as_new_front_on_sunni-shiite_divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25141","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom, Greeting Gulf Soldiers, Is Seen as New Front on Sunni-Shiite Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny Island of Bahrain could become a battleground for regional influence between two historical rivals\u201d\u201dwith Saudi Arabia backing Bahrain&#8217;s Sunni monarchy, and Iran supporting the Shiite opposition.<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of about 2,000 soldiers deployed by Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf states, part of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, rolled into Bahrain&#8217;s capital Monday to help restore order and save a government challenged by an opposition seeking an end to the monarchy. It was the first time Gulf countries deployed troops to an Arab nation to settle an internal dispute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703566504576202971554841248.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny Island of Bahrain could become a battleground for regional influence between two historical rivals\u201d\u201dwith Saudi Arabia backing Bahrain&#8217;s Sunni monarchy, and Iran supporting the Shiite opposition. A coalition of about 2,000 soldiers deployed by Saudi Arabia and Persian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25141\">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":[39,40,50,201,491,143,144,564,203,108,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-bahrain","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-religion-culture","category-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141","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=25141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}