{"id":87,"date":"2003-08-10T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2003-08-10T19:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=87"},"modified":"2003-08-10T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2003-08-10T19:29:59","slug":"make-iran-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Make Iran Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1015689,00.html\">read this article<\/a> in <i>The Observer<\/i> be sure to follow it up with this post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2003_08_01_juancole_archive.html#106050008982069625\">Juan Cole *Informed Comment*.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have I ever posted a link to this site?  Forgive me if it&#8217;s a repeat but I found it accidentally one day and it&#8217;s a great place to find observations of day-to-day goings on in Iran and elsewhere from <a href=\"http:\/\/thorntree.lonelyplanet.com\/search.cfm\">first-hand sources.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course the big news is Douglas Feith and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/ny-usiran0808,0,432543.story\"><i>Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian middleman in U.S. arms-for-hostage shipments to Iran in the mid-1980s&#8230; <\/i><\/a> which no doubt has been covered by lots of bloggers.  And all I can say on it has likely been said often by now as well.  There&#8217;s no surprise in it.  The proof of it, great.  What will come of it?  Gee I don&#8217;t know.  Ask George laughing it up with his &#8216;rangers&#8217; down in Texas.  Probably not a damn thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to read this article in The Observer be sure to follow it up with this post at Juan Cole *Informed Comment*. Have I ever posted a link to this site? Forgive me if it&#8217;s a repeat but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=87\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}