{"id":6364,"date":"2009-02-05T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2009-02-05T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:00:20","slug":"iran-did-not-lose-the-provincial-elections-vote-fraud-claims-in-iraq-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6364","title":{"rendered":"Iran did not Lose the Provincial Elections | Vote fraud claims in Iraq ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Juan Cole, Informed Comment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2009\/02\/iran-did-not-lose-provincial-elections.html\">5 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is being alleged by US pundits that the outcome of the provincial elections in Iraq, as far as it is known, indicates a defeat for the religious parties and for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This allegation is not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2009\/02\/iran-did-not-lose-provincial-elections.html\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vote fraud claims in Iraq ballot<br \/>\nBBC \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7871938.stm\">5 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Claims of election fraud in Iraq are being investigated, as the counting from the weekend&#8217;s election continues.<\/p>\n<p>Sunni Arab tribal leaders in western Anbar province say they have hundreds of documents proving irregularities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7871938.stm\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/04\/AR2009020403744.html\">Sudarsan Raghavan: As Anbar Counts Votes, Sheiks Voice Defiance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Cole, Informed Comment, 5 February 2009 It is being alleged by US pundits that the outcome of the provincial elections in Iraq, as far as it is known, indicates a defeat for the religious parties and for Iran. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6364\">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-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1EE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","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=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}