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Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com:
‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence — While word of riots in the streets of Tehran spread like wildfire on Twitter, CNN stayed largely silent on the story, surprising and dismaying many. — (Credit: Twitter) — As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran …
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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.
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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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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Or, he won — New America's Flynt Leverett is the first American analyst I've heard suggest the claims of massive fraud are wishful thinking: — Leverett: I would have been surprised if he had lost. The Western media overstated the surge of his main opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi over the last couple of weeks.
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
The Right Wing Claims Ahmadinejad's Reelection Was A Fraud, But Obama's Responsible For It Anyway — On Friday, the Iranian government announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the presidential election, though observers, including his main challenger, cited irregularities …
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Regime Unleashed— Gunshots & Beatings In Tehran (Video) — Photo of the year- — “Iranian Courage” — Threats Watch found this. — The regime is shooting at and beating the Iranian democracy protesters: — Hat Tip Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi — Kamangir has news on a Toronto protest.
Steve Schippert / RapidRecon:
Iranian Courage — This is courage. — Think about that as you go about your relatively calm day in Liberty already earned. — I said a few years ago when the regime began another wave of strict enforcement of Islamic (by their definition) dress code while women openly protested: Follow the women of Iran.
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Patrick Disney / niacINsight:Election unrest, day two — 3:53 update: Rep. Mike Pence …
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BBC:Violent clashes in Tehran
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Laura Secor / News Desk:Iran's Stolen Election
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past? — The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia …
tehranbureau:
Ayatollahs Protest Election Fraud — [TEHRAN BUREAU] Mir Hossein Mousavi's, the main reformist rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, letter to the important ayatollahs in the holy city of Qom, asking them to protest the fraud and declare it against Islam, has sparked protests by the ayatollahs and clerics as well.
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Concern Over Obama's Spending Plans May Cloud 2010 Election Prospects — Concern Mounts in White House as 2010 Elections Loom — After enjoying months of towering poll numbers, legislative victories and well-received foreign policy initiatives, the White House has become increasingly concerned …
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Will Hutton / Guardian:
Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade — As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Real Results? — This is hearsay - but under conditions of a police state coup, we are best advised to glean what information we can, hold it provisionally, and test it as time passes. Here's what Kos Diarist Electronic Maji is hearing from Iranian journalist friends under lockdown:
Tony Mauro / The BLT:
Justice Ginsburg Welcomes Sotomayor Nomination — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, addressing the annual conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Friday, signaled her admiration for 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the nominee to replace retiring justice David Souter.
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