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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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 …
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MideastAnalysis.com:
What Happened in Iran? — Let us begin by acknowledging that Iran is a complex society with an unusually opaque political system. Few outsiders genuinely understand the place. That makes understanding the country's presidential campaign - and interpreting the events of the last 24 hours - particularly tricky.
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Iran: There Will Be Blood — (To get a feel for what is going on in the streets of Tehran, watch this linked BBC video clip.) — Last night in London after appearing on Keith Olbermann's show, I got an email from a well-connected Iranian who knows many of the power figures in the Tehran political order asking to meet me.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Iran election result makes a U.S. overture more difficult
Iran election result makes a U.S. overture more difficult
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Telegraph
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: Withhold Recognition of Iranian Presidential Election Results
tehranbureau:
Alerts from Tehran — *Hour/time given U.S. Eastern (unless otherwise noted)
Alerts from Tehran — *Hour/time given U.S. Eastern (unless otherwise noted)
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Colin Freeman / Telegraph:
Iran elections: revolt as crowds protest at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ‘rigged’ victory
Iran elections: revolt as crowds protest at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ‘rigged’ victory
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?
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Riots in Iran: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Riots in Iran: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Results As They Came In — Yes, this obviously was a “divine assessment”.
The Results As They Came In — Yes, this obviously was a “divine assessment”.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
ROGER SIMON: How Fraudulent Was The Iranian Election?
ROGER SIMON: How Fraudulent Was The Iranian Election?
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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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New York Times:
U.S. to Continue to Engage Iran
U.S. to Continue to Engage Iran
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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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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 …
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MyDD
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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