{"id":17189,"date":"2014-05-24T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17189"},"modified":"2014-05-24T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:48:29","slug":"iran-hangs-key-figure-in-banking-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/05\/24\/iran-hangs-key-figure-in-banking-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs key figure in banking scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The Washington Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/iran-hangs-key-figure-in-banking-scandal\/2014\/05\/24\/0655fb6a-05d6-4ac1-9e8b-267dc3ad6e47_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iran hangs key figure in banking scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran\u2019s state media is reporting that a key player in the country\u2019s biggest-ever banking scandal was executed here on Saturday.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nBut fighting financial corruption, which was rampant during Ahmadinejad&#8217;s two terms, was a promise made by Hassan Rouhani when he assumed office last August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s what I call keeping a campaign promise.<\/p>\n<p>Some economists believe that we could fix the income inequality in this country by taxing the rich more.\u00a0 I bet a few hangings would convince many of the rich to stop accumulating wealth by nefarious means in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Let it be noted that I am not in favor of capital punishment.\u00a0 It is just too tempting to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has the story Iran hangs key figure in banking scandal. Iran\u2019s state media is reporting that a key player in the country\u2019s biggest-ever banking scandal was executed here on Saturday. . . . But fighting financial corruption, which was rampant during Ahmadinejad&#8217;s two terms, was a promise made by Hassan Rouhani when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}