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12:45 PM ET, June 13, 2009

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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Is Declared Victor, but Rival Protests  —  TEHRAN —President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran's presidential election in a landslide, officials of Iran's election commission said Saturday morning.  But his main rival, Mir Hussein Moussavi, had already announced defiantly just two hours …
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Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election  —  Clashes Break Out Among Voters as Challenger Mousavi Disputes Results  —  Iran's Interior Ministry declared Saturday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a decisive victory in Friday's presidential election, but the incumbent's leading challenger protested …
James Rosen / Fox News:
Official: Obama Administration Skeptical of Iran's Election Results  —  U.S. analysts find it “not credible” that Mir Hossein Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown, or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote, a senior U.S. official told FOX News.
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Red Alert: Iran's Election Results (Open Access)  —  The Iranian election is currently in turmoil.  Both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi are claiming to be ahead in the vote.  Preliminary results from the presidential vote show Ahmadinejad leading …
Laura Rozen / The Cable:
Iran elections (Updated Saturday)  —  Leading Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a statement warning of “tyranny” Saturday after a tense night in Iran in which state organs proclaimed that incumbent hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a …
Daniel Pipes Blog:
Rooting for Ahmadinejad  —  The heart and the head sometimes go in different directions, and they do for me today as Iranians go to the polls to vote in their country's semi-legitimate presidential elections.  —  Many problems afflict those elections - including restrictions on who may run for president …
Abbas Barzegar / Guardian:
Wishful thinking from Tehran
Discussion: The Lede and The Daily Dish
BBC:
Ahmadinejad wins Iran presidential poll
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Nation Of Law  —  Lars Thorwald has a strong post on why Obama's DOJ brief in defense of DOMA is in fact a keeping of a promise: to restore the rule of law after eight years of abuse.  I take every point he makes.  Read the whole thing.  —  After this back-and-forth today …
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BBC:
US ‘kept Guantanamo deal from UK’  —  The US made a secret deal with Bermuda - a British overseas territory - to accept the Uighur detainees  —  A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Discussion: RedState
Fox News:
Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Julian Borger / Guardian:
UK to review Bermuda relations
Discussion: Truthdig and FP Passport
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama plan to pay for health reform  —  President Barack Obama says he's now found savings that will pay almost all the costs of a massive overhaul of America's health care system.  —  Obama on Saturday is announcing an additional $313 billion in new proposed savings that he says would bring …
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Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Blogger's baby was a hoax  —  Woman captivates thousands in anti-abortion movement with false story of difficult pregnancy  —  Beccah Beushausen photographed near her home, Wednesday, June 10, 2009.  (David Pierini / Chicago Tribune / June 10, 2009)  —  The unmarried mother's story …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN DESPERATION GETS UGLY.... The conservative drive to connect violent right-wing extremist James von Brunn, who murdered a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week, to the American left continues to confound.  Dave Weigel had a terrific report on this yesterday, including this gem:
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Tom Leonard / Telegraph:
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive  —  Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.  —  The government looking at expanding …
Orange County Register:
Mark Steyn: The smothering embrace of nanny government  —  A society of adults-turned-children cannot survive.  —  Recommend  —  Willie Whitelaw, a genial old buffer who served as Margaret Thatcher's deputy for many years, once accused the Labour Party of going around Britain stirring up apathy.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits' Journalism  —  Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and BuzzMachine
Ezra Klein:
Will the House Progressive Caucus Vote Against Health Reform?  An Interview With Rep. Lynn Woolsey.  —  The theory in health-care reform has been, thus far, that Democrats need to worry about votes on their right flank.  But California Rep. Lynn Woolsey, chair of the 80-member House Progressive Caucus …
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