{"id":12258,"date":"2012-09-04T08:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2012-09-04T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:44:50","slug":"lost-in-translation-was-it-bahrain-or-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12258","title":{"rendered":"Lost in translation &#8211; was it Bahrain or Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: Iranian translators swopped us for Syria in \u2018oppressive regime\u2019 speech<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Associated Press- 1 September &#8211; 2012 &#8211; PDMI<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 Bahrain says it has filed a formal protest with Iran over a broadcast translation that wrongly substituted Bahrain for Syria in a speech by Egypt\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Bahrain\u2019s government says Egypt\u2019s President Mohammed Morsi referred to the Syrian rebels fighting an \u201coppressive\u201d regime during a speech at a Tehran conference Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Bahrain claims Iranian state TV replaced the word \u201cSyria\u201d with \u201cBahrain\u201d in its Farsi translation.<\/p>\n<p>    Morsi\u2019s speech was an embarrassment for Iran, which is a close ally of the Syrian regime.<\/p>\n<p>But Shiite power Iran has frequently criticized Bahrain\u2019s authorities for crackdowns against mostly Shiite protesters seeking greater political rights.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain says the formal complaint was filed Saturday with an Iranian diplomat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pdmi.org\/2012\/09\/bahrain-iranian-translators-swopped-us-for-syria-in-oppressive-regime-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D12258&amp;text=Lost+in+translation+-+was+it+Bahrain+or+Syria%3F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Iranian translators swopped us for Syria in \u2018oppressive regime\u2019 speech By Associated Press- 1 September &#8211; 2012 &#8211; PDMI MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 Bahrain says it has filed a formal protest with Iran over a broadcast translation that wrongly substituted Bahrain for Syria in a speech by Egypt\u2019s president. A statement by Bahrain\u2019s government says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12258#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3448],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12260,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions\/12260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}