{"id":1710,"date":"2010-03-21T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2010-03-21T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:40:45","slug":"a_message_from_nedas_fiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"A Message From Neda&#8217;s Fiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is based on a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/025877.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;today, which in turn linked to a story yesterday in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/International\/Article.aspx?id=171380\">Jerusalem Post<\/a>.&nbsp; Caspian Makan, the fiance of Neda Agha-Soltan (whose murder during the&nbsp;protests in Iran was filmed and the video shown around the world), is visiting Israel and has released a statement.&nbsp; Mr. Makan was taken prisoner and tortured by the Iranian government after Neda&#8217;s death and fled to Canada.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article in the Jerusalem Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;In trembling voice, Makan said there was hope for change in Iran. &#8220;The Iranian people is aware of the rights its being denied. Today the Iranian people is steadfast to achieve victory and to overthrow the current regime.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Makan said he hoped for an Iran &#8220;where no man comes against his fellow man, with no more executions, no more war, no more murder.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While Mr. Makan is in Jerusalem hoping for freedom from tyranny&nbsp;for his country, President Obama is trying to make peace with Iran.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Power Line reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;In his message Obama acknowledges Iran&#8217;s right to peaceful use of nuclear energy. He purports to be mystified by the beliefs of &#8220;Iran&#8217;s leaders.&#8221; He must not be paying close attention.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile Iran&#8217;s response to the President&#8217;s message is pretty simple.&nbsp; According to Thursday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/7474666\/Iranian-weapons-seized-in-Afghanistan.html\">U K Telegraph<\/a>, border officials in Afghanistan report a large amount of weapons and materials for making weapons seized on the Afghan border with Iran.&nbsp; It is a shame our President is too busy criticizing Israel for building an apartment building within the city limits of its own capital to deal with the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is based on a story in Power Line&nbsp;today, which in turn linked to a story yesterday in the Jerusalem Post.&nbsp; Caspian Makan, the fiance of Neda Agha-Soltan (whose murder during the&nbsp;protests in Iran was filmed and the video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}