{"id":7553,"date":"2017-05-31T17:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2017-05-31T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T22:03:33","slug":"you-think-a-moderate-has-won-in-iran-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/7553\/","title":{"rendered":"You think a &#8216;moderate&#8217; has won in Iran, think again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7554 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017528233653559962101_Members-of-Irans-elite-Revolutionary-Guards-march--300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017528233653559962101_Members-of-Irans-elite-Revolutionary-Guards-march--300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017528233653559962101_Members-of-Irans-elite-Revolutionary-Guards-march-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/>The Telegraph, 28 MAY 2017<\/strong>&#8212; Largely missed last week was the remarkable geo-political shift which took place when President Trump lined up Saudi Arabia and Israel in what is being called \u201ca Nato-style coalition\u201d against the country they all agree is at the heart of most of the Middle East\u2019s problems: Iran. Instead of his campaign rhetoric seeming to oppose the US to all Muslims, he is now allied with half the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>This followed the ghastly farce of the Iranian presidential election, when again we were told that the victor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/newsen\/24252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Hassan Rouhani <\/a>, was a \u201cmoderate\u201d against a \u201chardliner\u201d. As I have reported many times, Rouhani is an utterly ruthless operator, who had presided since 2013 over a collapsing economy and what Amnesty International called \u201ca staggering execution spree\u201d, murdering and imprisoning so many dissidents that Iran has per capita the highest execution rate in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Telegraph, 28 MAY 2017&#8212; Largely missed last week was the remarkable geo-political shift which took place when President Trump lined up Saudi Arabia and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/7553\/\" title=\"You think a &#8216;moderate&#8217; has won in Iran, think again\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-world","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}