{"id":781,"date":"2009-06-24T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2009-06-24T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:43:05","slug":"iran-congress-not-obama-shows-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Congress, not Obama Shows Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=32420\" target=\"_blank\">Human Events<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While President Obama equivocated about the protests in Iran last week, Congress showed real leadership.<\/p>\n<p>By an overwhelming bipartisan vote, both the House and the Senate passed resolutions expressing clear support for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of law.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats alike condemned the Iranian government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s violence in the streets and suppression of independent communication through cutting off internet and cell phone access.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Democrats and Republicans in Congress for standing up for American values and standing up for the Iranian people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Human Events While President Obama equivocated about the protests in Iran last week, Congress showed real leadership. By an overwhelming bipartisan vote, both the House and the Senate passed resolutions expressing clear support for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of law.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Republicans and Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2],"tags":[29,13,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}