{"id":79411,"date":"2020-02-03T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=79411"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:06:33","slug":"iranians-must-have-right-to-choose-at-polls-says-president-hassan-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/iranians-must-have-right-to-choose-at-polls-says-president-hassan-rouhani\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians must have \u2018right to choose\u2019 at polls, says president Hassan Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iranians must have the \u201cright to choose\u201d between different political movements, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, as controversy grows over the disqualification of thousands of candidates in upcoming polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during annual celebrations of the 1979 revolution, Rouhani, a moderate conservative, praised the political heritage of the Islamic republic\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhoever prevents people from choosing, and does not allow them to choose between different tendencies, and whoever discourages people from going to the polls, is certainly far from the approach of the imam\u201d, he added, surrounded by members of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paying homage the \u201cfather of republicanism in Iran\u201d, Rouhani said Khomeini had \u201crefused\u201d to establish a \u201ccaliphate\u201d and instead \u201cchose the Islamic republic\u201d after the victory of the revolution against the shah\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US-backed government of the shah fell on February 11, 1979, 10 days after Khomeini\u2019s triumphant return from exile.Rouhani made reference to the failed constitutional revolution in 1905 the first attempt to establish democracy in Iran with the restoration of an absolute monarchy some years later.He warned that the same could happen to the Islamic republic if elections became a mere \u201cformality\u201d, with weak turnout.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians must have the \u201cright to choose\u201d between different political movements, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, as controversy grows over the disqualification of thousands of candidates in upcoming polls. Speaking at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during annual celebrations of the 1979 revolution, Rouhani, a moderate conservative, praised the political heritage of the Islamic [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79413,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79411\/revisions\/79413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}