{"id":22271,"date":"2011-02-14T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22271"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:06:41","slug":"middle-east-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22271","title":{"rendered":"Middle East on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/algeria-emergency-laws-2011-2\">Algeria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20110214\/wl_nm\/us_yemen_6\">Yemen<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-stamps-out-street-protests-2214707.html\">Iran<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.64b40623ef755670eb1e7e108c8d3448.381&#038;show_article=1\">International Atomic Energy Agency<\/a> warns that Iran may be pursuing nuclear armament.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the IAEA did not have hard evidence implicating Tehran in nuclear bomb making, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not sure if they are hiding something,&#8221; Amano noted. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a smoking gun. We have concerns.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to reality, doofus.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Gaddafi is off the terrorist list, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/tunisiaNews\/idAFLDE71C0KP20110213?sp=true\">encouraging Palestinians to stage a revolution<\/a> against Israel. Of course the old guard in the Middle East has been keeping their own opposition at bay by continually encouraging the Palestinians to battle Israel. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110214\/wl_mideast_afp\/lebanonpoliticshariri_20110214111814\">outgoing premier of Lebanon<\/a> is going to declare himself in the opposition to the Hezbollah-controlled government there.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-12448413\">Egyptian labor unions<\/a> are protesting for higher wages now.<\/p>\n<p>Did I leave anyone out?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a rough summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests in Algeria, Yemen, and Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency warns that Iran may be &hellip; <a title=\"Middle East on fire\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22271\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Middle East on fire<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}