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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.
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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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.
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The Daily Dish, CNN, RedState, RealClearWorld, AMERICAblog News, Brutally Honest and Stinque
New York Times:
Protests Roil Tehran After Disputed Vote — 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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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.
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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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
Tehran Tienanmen? — For more than a decade, we've been hearing about the real Iran—the one whose youth is Westernized, desirous of connection with the United States, and tired of living in a theocracy. It's too soon to know whether the protests today in Iran represent the fruition …
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The Daily Dish
tehranbureau:
Alerts from Tehran — *Hour/time given U.S. Eastern (unless otherwise noted) — from Iran sent 2:43 AM Tehran-time (6:13 EST) — [Translated] “Here the internet is horrible. After much trouble, I was able t log on through a proxy. I'll try my best to get the news to you.
Nahid Siamdoust / Reuters:
After a Disputed Election, Tehran's Streets Become a Battleground — It's way past midnight in Tehran, but this city is not sleeping. Outside on the streets, people are honking their horns in protest and stretching their hands out of cars making peace signs — a sign of support for Mir-Hossein Mousavi …
Laura Secor / News Desk:
Iran's Stolen Election — At the Grand Hyatt hotel in midtown Manhattan on Friday, a decorous LCD placard outside a ballroom, the sort that might have announced the name of a session at a conference of anthropologists or oral surgeons, read, “The Islamic Republic of Iran: Elections …
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Daniel Pipes Blog:
Rooting for Ahmadinejad — The heart and the head sometimes …
Rooting for Ahmadinejad — The heart and the head sometimes …
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TPMCafe, Jihad Watch, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Israel Matzav, Unqualified Offerings and Pirate's Cove
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Reverberations as Door Slams on Hopes of Change
Reverberations as Door Slams on Hopes of Change
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Ben Smith's Blog
Fox News:
Iran's Controversial Election Results Raises Questions Over Its Relations to U.S.
Iran's Controversial Election Results Raises Questions Over Its Relations to U.S.
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Telegraph, Salon, Pajamas Media, Polimom, Too, The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys, A Blog For All, Blue Virginia and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
New York Times:
U.S. to Continue to Engage Iran
U.S. to Continue to Engage Iran
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Gateway Pundit, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Riehl World View, Israel Matzav and Swampland
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, 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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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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