{"id":13045,"date":"2010-04-01T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13045"},"modified":"2011-05-21T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:54:41","slug":"eric-a-brill-did-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-steal-the-2009-iran-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13045","title":{"rendered":"Eric A. Brill: Did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Steal the 2009 Iran Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Eric A. Brill<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Westerners have insisted that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole Iran&#8217;s 2009 presidential election from Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The post-election battle has been cast as courageous Truth confronting arrogant Power. Yet no one has come forward with a credible, evidence-backed account of electoral fraud. What if, on this narrow but important question, it turns out to have been courage confronting Power and Truth \u2013 the election was valid and fair? <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/brillwebsite.com\/writings\/iran2009election.html\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric A. Brill Introduction Many Westerners have insisted that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole Iran&#8217;s 2009 presidential election from Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The post-election battle has been cast as courageous Truth confronting arrogant Power. Yet no one has come forward with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}