{"id":1480,"date":"2003-04-11T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2003-04-11T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T18:50:00","slug":"iranian-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/11\/14\/50\/iranian-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David sent me a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/Description.asp?Da=4\/10\/03&#038;Cat=2&#038;Num=017\">Iranian conspiracy theory<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;q=jazeera+saddam+russian\">US allowed Saddam to quit Iraq<\/a> for Russia so that he can be maintained as a bogeyman image suitable for continual military involvement&#8230; much as the elusive Osama is still used as a pretext for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=cluster:www.paknews.com\/main.php%3Fid%3D1%26date1%3D2003-04-11\">continued US bombardment of Afghan villages and anti-Afghan government forces<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/Description.asp?Da=4\/10\/03&#038;Cat=2&#038;Num=017\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This possibility was confirmed by the Al-Jazeera network, which quoted a Russian intelligence official as saying that the Iraqi forces and the invaders had made a deal. The Russian official told Al-Jazeera that the Iraqi leaders had agreed to show no serious resistance against the U.S.-British troops in return for a guarantee that Saddam and his close relatives could leave Iraq unharmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sent me a wonderful Iranian conspiracy theory that the US allowed Saddam to quit Iraq for Russia so that he can be maintained as a bogeyman image suitable for continual military involvement&#8230; much&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}