{"id":18938,"date":"2011-02-14T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=18938"},"modified":"2011-02-14T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:22:23","slug":"iranians-and-algerians-catch-the-revolution-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/02\/14\/iranians-and-algerians-catch-the-revolution-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians and Algerians Catch the Revolution Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest02142011\/2011_02_14_iranalgeria.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest02142011\/2011_02_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/media.voanews.com\/images\/480*300\/AFP_IranProtest_14feb11.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\" \/>Within hours of Mubarak\u2019s resignation on Friday, Medhi Karroubi, one of Iran\u2019s most prominent opposition leaders and clerics, was placed under house-arrest for trying to organize a protest on Monday. The government has not officially banned the demonstration, but Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard has threatened to brutally crush any rallies. Two of Karroubi\u2019s allies, Taghi Rahmani and Mir Hossein Mousavi, have also been arrested in anticipation of today\u2019s protest. President Ahmedinejad\u2019s regime experienced its strongest, Egypt-like popular challenge in 2009 when the country\u2019s largely young population rose up under the banner of the \u201cGreen Revolution.\u201d The Iranian government, despite showing support for the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings as it celebrates the anniversary of its own 1979 revolution, has been jamming the BBC\u2019s Persian service signal since Thursday in an effort to block coverage of Mubarak\u2019s fall from power. Reports are coming in from today&#8217;s demonstrations that security forces have been heavy handed. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=left width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/ap\/20110212\/capt.e374305fcd6c495da4ea81983ca47ef5-e374305fcd6c495da4ea81983ca47ef5-0.jpg?x=400&#038;y=267&#038;q=85&#038;sig=SobjxgbIhmoQlXAr9Vg0MQ--\" alt=\"Algeria\" \/>Meanwhile in Algeria, anti-government protests have increased in steam even as the Algerian government rushed to announce today that it would lift the emergency rule that has been in place since 1992, meeting a key demand of protesters. Yesterday hundreds of demonstrators clashed with government protesters in the Eastern city of Annaba and on Saturday, defying a police ban, thousands of Algerians marched on the capital, Algiers. They plan to hold weekly demonstrations in Algiers until their demands for reform are met. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Reese Erlich, author of &#8220;The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis&#8221; and &#8220;Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire,&#8221; David Porter professor emeritus of political science at SUNY\/Empire State College, just wrote the piece &#8220;The Triumph of Leaderless Revolutions&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Reese Erlich at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reeseerlich.com\">www.reeseerlich.com<\/a>. Read David Porter&#8217;s article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/porter02112011.html\">http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/porter02112011.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within hours of Mubarak\u2019s resignation on Friday, Medhi Karroubi, one of Iran\u2019s most prominent opposition leaders and clerics, was placed under house-arrest for trying to organize a protest on Monday. The government has not officially banned the demonstration, but Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard has threatened to brutally crush any rallies. Two of Karroubi\u2019s allies, Taghi Rahmani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}