{"id":5809,"date":"2011-05-07T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2011-05-07T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T21:38:23","slug":"trouble-in-the-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/trouble-in-the-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in the Asylum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Genie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Genie-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Genie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5869\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/266674\/trouble-asylum-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted on the Corner<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/may\/05\/ahmadinejad-allies-charged-with-sorcery\">Via the <em>Guardian<\/em>:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Close allies of Iran\u2019s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being \u201cmagicians\u201d and invoking djinns (spirits). Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as \u201ca man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: Via the Guardian: Close allies of Iran\u2019s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/trouble-in-the-asylum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[266,50,250,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}