{"id":4709,"date":"2009-06-22T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2009-06-22T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T03:05:14","slug":"iran-bans-prayers-for-murderd-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/iran-bans-prayers-for-murderd-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran bans prayers for murdered woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/iran\/5603057\/Iran-bans-prayers-for-Angel-of-Freedom-Neda-Agha-Soltan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran&#8217;s regime has issued a ban on memorials for a young woman whose death has become the focal point of protests against the clerical regime.<\/p>\n<p>Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was dubbed the Angel of Freedom after a video which appeared to show her being shot by a government sniper was posted on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic scenes show Neda \u2013 her name means &#8220;the call&#8221; \u2013 walking with her father among demonstrators, then separately when she was shot as well as attempts to save her life.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian authorities have now sent out a circular to mosques banning collective prayers for the woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bbdEf0QRsLM]<\/p>\n<p>A sniper killing an innocent young woman is bad enough, but what kind of systematically evil regime would ban prayers or a memorial for the victim. The one in Iran, it seems; this could backfire on the \u201cauthorities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegraph: Iran&#8217;s regime has issued a ban on memorials for a young woman whose death has become the focal point of protests against the clerical regime. Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was dubbed the Angel of Freedom after a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/iran-bans-prayers-for-murderd-woman\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}