{"id":246919,"date":"2010-01-29T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:39:53","slug":"iran-%e2%80%9ccensors%e2%80%9d-its-own-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246919","title":{"rendered":"Iran \u201ccensors\u201d its own flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/01\/erasing-green-from-the-national-flag.html#more\" >The green stripe at the top of Iran&#8217;s flag has been removed<\/a> when the flag was displayed at recent official ceremonies. This\u00a0totalitarian\u00a0state is now willing to desecrate its national symbol to avoid displaying the color of the green wave revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling in fear is not ruling.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e20120a826932c970b-500wi\" alt=\"Flag\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e201287729b1ef970c-500wi\" alt=\"IRAN-FLAG-BLUE\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Radio Free Europe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/Where_Is_The_Color_Green\/1943192.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[I]n at least two official ceremonies in recent days, images of that flag have been used where the green color has been replaced by blue. The move has led to speculation that the Iranian government is trying to get rid of the green in the Iranian flag because it&#8217;s a symbol of the opposition movement that has been challenging the disputed reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6583\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6583&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The green stripe at the top of Iran&#8217;s flag has been removed when the flag was displayed at recent official ceremonies. This\u00a0totalitarian\u00a0state is now willing to desecrate its national symbol to avoid displaying the color of the green wave revolution. Ruling in fear is not ruling. From the link: Radio Free Europe\u00a0reports: [I]n at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}