{"id":8014,"date":"2009-06-18T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2009-06-18T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:54:51","slug":"campaign-ad-from-irans-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8014","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Ad from Iran's Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got this from Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, where it is attributed to Karroubi, one of the opposition candidates in Iran’s recent election:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the translation:<\/p>\n

1 (Girl in street): Defending civil rights
\n2 (Boy next to old man): Counterbalancing poverty\/deprivation
\n3 (Boy pushing away donation box): Nationalizing oil income
\n4 (Man standing on rooftop): Reducing tension in international affairs
\n5 (Boy sitting next to satellite dishes): Free access to information
\n6 (Girl sitting besides her mother): Supporting single mothers
\n7 (Girl with cast):\ufeff Knock down violence against women
\n8 (Boy): Education for all
\n9 (Boy infront of man locking car): Increasing public safety
\n10 (Girl on rooftop): Ethnic and religious minority rights
\n11 (Man on rooftop): Supporting NGOs
\n12 (Girl in front of wall): Public involvement
\n13 (Boy and girl): We have come for\ufeff change
\n14: Change for Iran<\/p>\n

Now, a campaign ad is a campaign ad, and it’s very easy to be cynical about them. Just imagine for a minute, though, in the context of Iran, how chutzpadik<\/em>–it’s a Yiddish word meaning audacious, ballsy, and it’s the only one that fit my response to seeing the ad–it was for an Iranian politician to say he wants to accomplish these things; and notice as well the prominence given to two issues related specifically to women’s status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got this from Andrew Sullivan, where it is attributed to Karroubi, one of the opposition candidates in Iran’s recent election: Here’s the translation: 1 (Girl in street): Defending civil rights 2 (Boy next to old man): Counterbalancing poverty\/deprivation 3 (Boy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}