{"id":3316,"date":"2021-06-20T22:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2021-06-28T08:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:05:48","slug":"3316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/20\/3316\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2021\/jun\/20\/hard-liner-ushered-in-as-new-iran-president\/?news\">\u201cHard-liner ushered in as new Iran president:\u00a0 Voter turnout republic\u2019s lowest ever,\u201d<\/a> Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 20, 2021.\u00a0 \u201c[O]ut of more than 59 million people eligible, only 28.9 million voted Friday. And some 3.7 million people either accidentally or intentionally voided their ballots, far beyond the amount seen in previous elections and suggesting that some wanted none of the four candidates.\u201d\u00a0 Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2021-06-20\/iran-says-nuclear-talks-to-be-adjourned-for-consultations-in-capitals\">\u201cEuropeans, U.S. Warn Iran Nuclear Talks Won&#8217;t Be Open-Ended,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, USNWR, June 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-june-20-2021\">\u201cClashes and Protests in Iran on Sunday,\u201d<\/a> Hamideh Taati, NCRI, June 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A good big picture article.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-revolutionary-election.html\">\u201cIran\u2019s System Keeps Its Grip, Despite the Chaos (or Because of It),\u201d<\/a> Max Fisher, New York Times, June 20, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHard-liner ushered in as new Iran president:\u00a0 Voter turnout republic\u2019s lowest ever,\u201d Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 20, 2021.\u00a0 \u201c[O]ut of more than 59 million people eligible, only 28.9 million voted Friday. And some 3.7 million people either accidentally or intentionally voided their ballots, far beyond the amount seen in previous elections and suggesting that some wanted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/06\/20\/3316\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}