{"id":164265,"date":"2012-02-24T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=164265"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:55:41","slug":"occupy-mashtots-park-activists-either-directed-or-ignorant-says-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/24\/occupy-mashtots-park-activists-either-directed-or-ignorant-says-mp.html","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Mashtots Park Activists Either &#8216;Directed&#8217; or &#8216;Ignorant,&#8217; Says MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MP <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.am\/deputies.php?sel=details&amp;ID=957&amp;lang=eng\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Manvel Badeyan<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> managed to become better informed of the issues surrounding Mashtots Park, so now he&#8217;s in a position to express his views on the matter, Badeyan himself told reporters at a press conference earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That demonstration has a few layers: first, 90% of demonstrators are directed. They have far-reaching political ambitions \u2014 they are directed by forces not only in but also outside Armenia, who have an interest in destabilizing the situation in Armenia,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 10% of demonstrators, according to Badeyan, are &#8220;delusional&#8221;. In his opinion, this group of demonstrators are honest strugglers, but at the same time, they&#8217;re &#8220;militantly ignorant&#8221; because they don&#8217;t understand that they&#8217;re being taken advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawmaker, the issue isn&#8217;t environmental at all since, according to him, no tree or branch has been harmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s satanism among them \u2014 do we have to go after satanists or [Yerevan] mayor Taron Margaryan, who with the path he&#8217;s taken, with Avan [when he was Avan district mayor], proved that he won&#8217;t do any harm?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They have far-reaching political ambitions \u2014 they are directed by forces not only in but also outside Armenia, who have an interest in destabilizing the..<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}