{"id":2415,"date":"2011-01-06T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2011-01-08T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:26:32","slug":"he-who-got-slapped-ahmadinejad-irgc-chief-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/middle-east-government-analysis\/he-who-got-slapped-ahmadinejad-irgc-chief-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"He Who Got Slapped: Ahmadinejad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2416\" title=\"Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/213.251.145.96\/cable\/2010\/02\/10BAKU98.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent <\/a>Wikileaks cable release the Head of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) slapped President Ahmadinejad in a heated meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Under a section titled \u2018He who got slapped\u2019 someone from the US Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan reported the confrontation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to source, President Ahmedinejad surprised other SNSC members by taking a surprisingly liberal posture during a mid January post-Ashura meeting of the SNSC called to discuss next steps on dealing with opposition protests. Source said that Ahmedinejad claimed that \u201cpeople feel suffocated,\u201d and mused that to defuse the situation it may be necessary to allow more personal and social freedoms, including more freedom of the press.<\/p>\n<p>According to source, Ahmedinejad\u2019s statements infuriated Revolutionary Guard Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali Jafari, who exclaimed \u201cYou are wrong! (In fact) it is YOU who created this mess! And now you say give more freedom to the press?!\u201d Source said that Jafarli then slapped Ahmedinejad in the face, causing an uproar and an immediate call for a break in the meeting, which was never resumed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading this reporting I am reminded of some kind of cross between a  game of Chinese whispers and a \u2018Days of Our Lives\u2019 storyline. I can\u2019t  say I really know why.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Paper that released that first commented on the story has been blocked in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: Under a section titled \u2018He who got slapped\u2019 someone from the US Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan reported the confrontation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,83],"tags":[1706,1284,151,18306,2860,1808,2736,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}