{"id":233,"date":"2004-05-15T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=233"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T21:10:37","slug":"tit-for-tat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tit-for-tat","title":{"rendered":"Tit for Tat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Germans and the Iranians are getting feisty over commemorating murdered dissidents and the sale of chemical weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Germans and the Iranians are getting feisty over commemorating murdered dissidents and the sale of chemical weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":233,"position":0},"title":"DoubtsAccording to a magazine called\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"September 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"DoubtsAccording to a magazine called Expatica (for American expatriots living in Europe), German intel denies Die Welt's story about Syria testing chemical weapons in Darfur:German intelligence sources said Wednesday they had no information which could confirm a report claiming Syria had tested chemical weapons in cooperation with the government of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":933,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-good-to-be-the-shah","url_meta":{"origin":233,"position":1},"title":"It’s good to be the Shah?","author":"Gil","date":"May 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Human Events runs a long and implausibly candid interview with Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah of Iran, who seems to be campaigning for U.S. backing for a 'peaceful' overthrow of the mullahs. 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