{"id":1603,"date":"2009-06-24T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2009-06-24T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:05:09","slug":"culling-the-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/culling-the-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Culling the Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you think Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad and former Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Mousavi<\/a> can remember 30 years ago?<\/p>\n

That was a generation ago.<\/p>\n

That was when the Shah of Iran was toppled and the US Embassy taken over for 444 days by the student radicals and protesters and revolutionaries of that day.<\/p>\n

That was their<\/i> heydey…and I’m sure they remember it well.<\/p>\n

I suspect they would like to keep the new generation from doing to their power as they themselves did to the Shah’s power.<\/p>\n

But how do you bring out into daylight the new generation of student radicals and protesters and revolutionaries…where you can ID them and\/or arrest them and\/or demoralize them and\/or eliminate them?<\/p>\n

And how do you increase the odds that in the process you might snag some agent provocateurs of the foreign sort — especially Israeli and American?<\/p>\n

You stage a fraudulent election!<\/b> \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

So those three men (Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, and Mousavi) got together with other Iranian power brokers and planned the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Is that my belief, my accusation? \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n

Oh, don’t be silly!<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I do not find such a scenario to be impossible or even improbable.<\/p>\n

I just don’t know. And neither do you.<\/p>\n

But I read it here first. And so did you (I suppose).<\/p>\n

Now we’ll see if it develops legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you think Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad and former Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Mousavi can remember 30 years ago? That was a generation ago. That was when the Shah of Iran was toppled and the US Embassy taken over for 444 days by the student radicals and protesters … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[668,89],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-elections","tag-iran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}