{"id":3803,"date":"2021-10-12T08:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:03:44","slug":"3803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/10\/12\/3803\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the real Iran, we are familiar with the long shadow of state suppression. We aren\u2019t victims of global ignorance but of a deliberate and systematic attempt by the Islamic Republic to manipulate world opinion through apologists in the foreign media. Thus, you\u2019ve read that there is no internal opposition to the Islamic Republic. That\u2019s wrong. We the people are the opposition. What we ask of you is simple: to learn about Iran, listen to us, share our stories. You have been told that your solidarity would hurt us, that talking about our struggle would put us at risk. That is a lie. It is your silence and indifference that threaten us.&#8221;\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/western-media-iran-censorship-prison-violence-torture-repression-authoritarian-jcpoa-11634072439\">\u201cWestern Media Aren\u2019t Telling You the Truth About Iran,\u201d<\/a> Hossein Ronaghi, October 12, 2021.\u00a0 \u201cReporters would rather tweet about the weather than investigate repression and torture by the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the real Iran, we are familiar with the long shadow of state suppression. We aren\u2019t victims of global ignorance but of a deliberate and systematic attempt by the Islamic Republic to manipulate world opinion through apologists in the foreign media. Thus, you\u2019ve read that there is no internal opposition to the Islamic Republic. That\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/10\/12\/3803\/\" 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_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":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","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\/3803","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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}