{"id":5751,"date":"2009-06-19T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:22:17","slug":"iran-updates-video-live-blogging-the-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/06\/iran-updates-video-live-blogging-the-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/13\/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html\">\n<p>2:53 PM ET &#8212; &#8220;Basiji Hunting.&#8221; Steve Clemons posts an email describing a new trend:<\/p>\n<p>By the way, two nights ago I went out to see a few things &#8230; as the general crowds spread into their homes militia style Mousavi supporters were out on the streets &#8216;Basiji hunting&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Their resolve is no less than these thugs &#8212; they after hunting them down. They use their phones, their childhood friends, their intimate knowledge of their districts and neighbours to plan their attacks &#8212; they&#8217;re organised and they&#8217;re supported by their community so they have little fear. They create the havoc they&#8217;re after, ambush the thugs, use their Cocktail Molotovs, disperse and re-assemble elsewhere and then start again &#8211; and the door of every house is open to them as safe harbour &#8212; they&#8217;re community-connected.<\/p>\n<p>The Basiji&#8217;s are not.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, fantasy; font-size: 19px; line-height: 25px;\">These are not the students in the dorms, they&#8217;re the street young &#8212; they know the ways better than most thugs &#8211; and these young, a surprising number of them girls, are becoming more agile in their ways as each night passes on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/13\/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html\" ><cite>Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clemons posts an email describing a new trend:  By the way, two nights ago I went out to see a few things &#8230; as the general crowds spread into their homes militia style Mousavi supporters were out on the streets &#8216;Basiji hunting&#8217;.  &#8230;  They create the havoc they&#8217;re after, ambush the thugs, use their Cocktail Molotovs, disperse and re-assemble elsewhere and then start again &#8211; and the door of every house is open to them as safe harbour &#8212; they&#8217;re community-connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1uL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}