{"id":1602,"date":"2003-07-09T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/iranian-demos\/"},"modified":"2003-07-09T17:43:44","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T00:43:44","slug":"iranian-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/09\/iranian-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian demos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/archives\/2003_07.html#004172\">Jeff Jarvis<\/a> reports that the Iranian demonstrations were cancelled by the leaders of the student movement in the face of government threats of violence, but world-wide they&#8217;re still on.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=JPost\/A\/JPArticle\/ShowFull%26cid=1057723800470\">Jerusalem Post<\/a> reports the Iranians demonstrated anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shrugging off death threats by government paramilitary forces, tens thousands of Iranian students took to the streets Wednesday night, burning at least three government banks, calling for the country&#8217;s democratization and the death to its extremist leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini. <\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations, banned by the Mullarchy, came on the 4th anniversary of 1999 pro-reform protests which triggered a violent regime crackdown, the death of one student and the arrest of thousands. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition group leaders hailed Wednesday&#8217;s demonstrations the culmination of month-long anti-government activities as a deadly blow to the repressive regime, saying it edges Iran ever closer to a democratic revolution. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for them.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Jarvis reports that the Iranian demonstrations were cancelled by the leaders of the student movement in the face of government threats of violence, but world-wide they&#8217;re still on. UPDATE: Jerusalem Post reports the Iranians demonstrated anyway: Shrugging off death threats by government paramilitary forces, tens thousands of Iranian students took to the streets Wednesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/09\/iranian-demos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iranian demos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}