{"id":6245,"date":"2009-11-05T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/11\/mahmoud-vahidnia-student-stuns-iran-by-criticizing-supreme-leader\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T19:50:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:50:54","slug":"mahmoud-vahidnia-student-stuns-iran-by-criticizing-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/11\/mahmoud-vahidnia-student-stuns-iran-by-criticizing-supreme-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/11\/s-MAHMOUD-VAHIDNIA-large.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" alt=\"s-MAHMOUD-VAHIDNIA-large.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/11\/05\/mahmoud-vahidnia-student_n_347823.html\">\n<p>BEIRUT \u2014 An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country&#8217;s most powerful man to his face.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge \u2013 unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable by prison.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/11\/05\/mahmoud-vahidnia-student_n_347823.html\" ><cite>Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT \u2014 An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country&#8217;s most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge \u2013 unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/11\/mahmoud-vahidnia-student-stuns-iran-by-criticizing-supreme-leader\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader<\/span><\/a><\/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-6245","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-1CJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","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=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}