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Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Stealing the Iranian Election — Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen — 1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is Flawed — Like most Americans, there are few things I would like to see more than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hateful President, to be voted out of office. Elections in thuggish, authoritarian states like Iran need be treated with the utmost skepticism and scrutiny.
New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Re-elected; Protests Flare — TEHRAN — The streets of Iran's capital erupted in the most intense protests in a decade on Saturday, with riot police officers using batons and tear gas against opposition demonstrators who claimed that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had stolen the presidential election.
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Yossi Melman / Haaretz:
Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran — Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was reportedly arrested Saturday following the reformist's defeat at the polls by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supporters of Mousavi, the main challenger to Ahmadinejad …
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Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Fausta's Blog, Raw Story, Blue Crab Boulevard and Michael J. Totten
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Results As They Came In — Yes, this obviously was a “divine assessment”. They didn't even attempt to disguise the fraud. Which, to me, tells me they panicked. This graph is a red flag to Iran and the world.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Senior U.S. official: Yes, the Iranian election was rigged; Update: 50-100 dead? Update: We'll still work with Iran, says White House — The White House is playing it cool lest U.S. support for Mousavi discredit his supporters but U.S. analysts have little doubt. The fix is indeed in:
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Weekly Standard, Time, Ben Smith's Blog, Flopping Aces, Guardian, Commentary, Fox News, The American Pundit and niacINsight
gary's choices:
Iran's political coup — If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history. One characteristic that has always distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in much of the rest of the Middle East …
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 …
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TPMCafe, Jihad Watch, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Unqualified Offerings, Israel Matzav and Pirate's Cove
Michael J. Totten:
Iran on Fire (Continuously updated) — The BBC says clashes between demonstrators and police in Tehran are the most violent in a decade. — Video below shows a human wave of demonstrators chasing frightened police officers. — Here is another video. These protests are huge.
tehranbureau:
Alerts from Tehran — *Hour/time given U.S. Eastern (unless otherwise noted) — Hadi Ghaemi: In a sign of further escalation of the crisis in Iran, in the last few hours most reformist politicians from Mosharekat [Islamic Participation], and Mojahedin Enqelab, including Khatami's brother have been detained.
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The Daily Dish
tehranbureau:
Mousavi Letter — The reported results of the 10th Iranians …
Mousavi Letter — The reported results of the 10th Iranians …
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American Footprints
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran's Election Results
Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran's Election Results
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Reuters, The BRAD BLOG, BBC, FP Passport, The Daily Dish, Newshoggers.com, Gawker and tehranbureau
KVOA-TV:
Head of a minuteman group arrested for double homicide — TUCSON, AZ - Three people have been arrested in connection with last months deadly double homicide in Arivaca that left a nine-year-old and her father dead. One of the people arrested for the homicide is the National Executive Director …
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minutemenamericandefense.org:
Statement From M.A.D Officers — Rule Of Law Without Excuse — Minuteman American Defense (M.A.D.) and its officers wish to submit this following statement: — First we wish to offer our deepest regrets to the Flores family of Arivaca, Arizona for the loss of their loved ones by this terrible event.
Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:
Iran: Don't Lead, Don't Follow, And Instead Get Out Of The Way — In my previous post, I wondered whether the Obama administration would need to make a stronger statement about Iranian electoral fraud or consider other measures for dealing with the regime. The strongly anti-Ahmedinejad Hadi Ghaemi …
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Associated Press:
Terrorist can sue over torture memos — First time a government lawyer has been held potentially liable for abuse — SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture …
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Macsmind
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit Over Claims of Torture
Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit Over Claims of Torture
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TalkLeft
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Obama auto team called shareholder lawyer a “terrorist” — When we last left the negotiations between Chrysler's senior bondholders and Barack Obama's auto task force, Thomas Lauria and his clients alleged that the government used intimidation tactics and threatened to sic …
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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:
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Bloomberg:
Durbin cashed out during big stock collapse — As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
North Korea: all-out push for bomb — Regime retaliates against fresh UN sanctions by announcing it will turn all its plutonium into bomb material — North Korea declared it would turn its plutonium stocks into weapons material and threatened military action against the US and its allies …
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