{"id":32214,"date":"2019-02-07T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32214"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:23:16","slug":"how-irans-role-in-middle-east-boomed-since-1979-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32214","title":{"rendered":"How Iran&#8217;s role in Middle East boomed since 1979 revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"69.3665158371\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\">Iran<\/a>\u2019s Revolutionary Guard was established in the wake of the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago to protect its ideals.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, its role has expanded making it a powerful institution with influence both within Iran&#8217;s political leadership and beyond the country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>The Guard&#8217;s efforts in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere have given Iran a place in Middle Eastern political affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Zeina Khodr reports from Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard was established in the wake of the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago to protect its ideals. Since then, its role has expanded making it a powerful institution with influence both within Iran&#8217;s political leadership and beyond the country\u2019s borders. The Guard&#8217;s efforts in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere have given Iran a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}