{"id":23374,"date":"2022-09-04T18:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:33:26","slug":"bgg-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=23374","title":{"rendered":"BGG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">BGG &#8211; <\/span><\/strong> I believe so many in this community have read this latest uprising in Iraq all wrong (as usual). <strong>The Sadrists ran on a platform of equal governance and reform. In stunning fashion, they won big. Not quite big enough&#8230; but big.<\/strong> The people voted for a new direction. <strong>They will again<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The corrupt old guard has been doing everything possible to try and maintain their &#8220;status quo&#8221;.<\/strong> This is at the very heart of this conflict. This is a good struggle. Freedom can be a messy business&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hard news excerpts:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sadr believes he can control the angry masses &#8230;but only if he can control the system. His unleashing of the Sadrists for 24 hours was that message in graphic form.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How to deal with Muqtada al-Sadr has long befuddled Western and Iranian officials.<\/strong> The latest outburst of violence in Iraq shows they have long underestimated him as well, writes @SajadJiyad&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>You want to know what this all means? Sadr sent the message &#8220;reform or else&#8221;&#8230;<\/strong> I believe it was heard loud and clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGG &#8211; I believe so many in this community have read this latest uprising in Iraq all wrong (as usual). The Sadrists ran on a platform of equal governance and reform. In stunning fashion, they won big. Not quite big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=23374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gMgY-650","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23375,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions\/23375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}