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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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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Dish, tehranbureau, The Huffington Post, MoJo Blog Posts, American Footprints, Matthew Yglesias, niacINsight, Election Law, Sadly, No!, The Washington Independent, The Moderate Voice, Hullabaloo, The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, The Cable and The Nation
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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.
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, Fausta's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Raw Story, Blue Crab Boulevard and Michael J. Totten
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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Weekly Standard, Right Wing News, Stop The ACLU, The Impolitic, AmSpecBlog, Balloon Juice, The New Republic, Newshoggers.com, Matthew Yglesias, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Washington Monthly, The Page, Outside The Beltway, The Daily Dish, Danger Room, Macsmind, Taylor Marsh, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, RealClearWorld, Mudville Gazette, MyDD and The Lede
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.
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.
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 …
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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Pajamas Media, Time, Ben Smith's Blog, Weekly Standard, Commentary, Flopping Aces, Fox News, The American Pundit and niacINsight
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, Israel Matzav, Unqualified Offerings and Pirate's Cove
Fox News:
Iran's Controversial Election Results Raises Questions Over Its Relations to U.S. — Some analysts believe the outcome of Iran's election could complicate President Obama's efforts to engage the country. — FOXNews.com — With the results of Iran's election raising serious doubts …
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Telegraph, FP Passport, Salon, Pajamas Media, Polimom, Too, Scared Monkeys, A Blog For All, Blue Virginia and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Riots in Iran: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy — Here's Borzou Daragahi's report from Tehran: … The blogosphere has erupted in response to the news. — Check the New York Times, “Protests Roil Tehran After Disputed Vote.” And especially, Fox News, “Iran's Controversial Election …
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, FP Passport, Newshoggers.com, The Daily Dish, 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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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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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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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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