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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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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 …
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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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.
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 …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Revolution Will Be Twittered — Mock not. As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.
BBC:
Violent clashes in Tehran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected as president of Iran in a resounding victory, the interior minister says. — He won some 62.6% of the vote in an election marked by a high turnout of 85%, official figures show. — Supporters of pro-reform candidate …
tehranbureau:
Alerts from Tehran — *Hour/time given U.S. Eastern (unless otherwise noted) — from Iran sent 9:23 AM Tehran-time — The banks are all closed. most with windows smashed up. its morning now and it seems to be business as usual for people going to work, but everyone is very angry …
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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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 …
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.
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The Huffington Post:
Iran Violence (VIDEO): Protests Erupt, Riot Police Launch Crackdown — I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me if you see anything notable. — 6:24 PM ET — More house arrest reports. The National Iranian American Council notes reports that Ahmadinejad's main challenger …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Senior U.S. official: Yes, the Iranian election was rigged; Update: 50-100 dead?
Senior U.S. official: Yes, the Iranian election was rigged; Update: 50-100 dead?
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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, Israel Matzav, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Unqualified Offerings and Pirate's Cove
New York Times:
Protests Roil Tehran After Disputed Vote
Protests Roil Tehran After Disputed Vote
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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 Confluence, The Daily Dish, FP Passport, The BRAD BLOG, Newshoggers.com, Harry's Place and tehranbureau
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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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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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Take: GOP Comeback Limited by Demographics, Political Forces — There has been much chatter about who now speaks for the Republican Party, and whether the GOP has a message or an agenda to combat President Obama's popularity. Those questions are important to the party's future …
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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