{"id":13370,"date":"2010-04-29T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13370"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:28:54","slug":"matthew-cassell-responds-to-danny-postel-hamid-dabashi-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13370","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Cassel responds to Danny Postel, Hamid Dabashi, et al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Postel criticises Matthew Cassel&#8217;s article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/article\/5736\/an_american_in_tehran\/\">An American in Tehran<\/a>.\u201d  Scroll down for Matthew Cassel&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contrary to Danny Postel\u2019s claims, I did not intend to portray the Basij or Ahmadinejad government in a sympathetic light. Rather, my aim was to lend nuance to a complex reality in Iran that has been oversimplified by nearly all media outlets in the United States, from Fox News to commentators like Postel.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Postel, I do not attempt to make sweeping generalizations about the ideology of a diverse opposition movement that includes Iranians from all walks of life. Nor would I ever attempt to make such generalizations from the other side of the globe. I traveled to Iran to gain a better understanding of what was happening there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/article\/5900\/irans_green_movement_the_basij_and_the_question_of_violence\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Postel criticises Matthew Cassel&#8217;s article \u201cAn American in Tehran.\u201d Scroll down for Matthew Cassel&#8217;s response. Contrary to Danny Postel\u2019s claims, I did not intend to portray the Basij or Ahmadinejad government in a sympathetic light. Rather, my aim was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13370\">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-13370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3tE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370","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=13370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13380,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions\/13380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}