{"id":3900,"date":"2011-02-14T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2011-02-14T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:35:02","slug":"the-top-five-effects-of-egypts-revolution-on-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/the-top-five-effects-of-egypts-revolution-on-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Five Effects of Egypt’s Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5. Thousands of protesters marched Sunday<\/a> on the presidential palace of Yemen\u2019s Ali Abdullah Salih, who has ruled since 1978. The United States has increasingly forged a relationship with the Yemeni military aimed at destroying the alleged al-Qaeda operatives in that country.<\/p>\n

Aljazeera English has video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. After 3,000 protesters came out in Algiers on Sunday, organizers announced that they would hold rallies every Saturday<\/a> in their quest for the resignation of President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika.<\/p>\n

3. Fearful of a Palestinian uprising against it, the Palestine Authority in the West Bank is instituting some reforms. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has dismissed his entire cabinet in favour of a smaller, leaner body<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Clashes broke out Monday morning between police and demonstrators over the latter\u2019s plans to hold protest rallies<\/a> in Manama. Reuters has background<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Iran\u2019s Green Movement and its plans for big rallies in Iran on Monday<\/a> are raising regime fears that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards may split, on facing the prospect of attacking innocent civilians.<\/p>\n

U.S. interests are affected by each of these.<\/p>\n

Algeria is a petroleum producer, and supplies are tight, increasing the value of stability in each of the OPEC countries. Bahrain has a bit of oil but its main importance is as a US naval base. Yemen is an object of anxiety about al-Qaeda, with which Saleh has been cooperating. Iran is a major target of US foreign policy angst and any significant change there will affect the tenor of the debate in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JUAN COLE – Events are moving quickly around the Arab World following the departure of Hosni Mubarak. I highlight, what I believe, are the most significant developments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":3901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,83,60],"tags":[169,18328,3769,18303,125,18300,354,18306,2756,406,3587,3461,1808,2204,2633,2978,18322,18302,2020,580,18313,4641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}