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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging Day 8 — [Note: words in green are tweets from Iran. Words in black are mine in the US. The tweets should be taken provisionally until confirmed. - Andrew.] — (AFP/Getty.) — 5.01 pm. We're done live-blogging for the day. I'd like to pay a little homage to my two under-bloggers, Chris and Patrick.
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New York Times:
Iranian Police Clash With Protesters — TEHRAN — Police officers used sticks and tear gas to force back thousands of demonstrators under plumes of black smoke in the capital on Saturday, a day after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said there would be “bloodshed” …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Chaos in Tehran: I'm ready for martyrdom, says Mousavi; Videos: Woman murdered in cold blood, police beat women with batons; Update: Obama calls on regime to end violence; Rumor: 30-40 dead in Tehran? — View the video »
Reuters:
Suicide bomber attacks Khomeini shrine in Iran — TEHRAN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the mausoleum of the father of Iran's revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, state media said Saturday, in an attack coinciding with more unrest over a disputed presidential vote.
Mike Madden / Salon:
Mousavi: “I am prepared for martyrdom” — Protests continued in Iran today, despite yesterday's threat by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to crush dissent if it went on. But the regime appears to be making good on its threats. Eyewitnesses reported massive security forces gathered all over Tehran …
BBC:
Iran police clash with protesters
Iran police clash with protesters
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Gateway Pundit:
HEAVY CLASHES IN TEHRAN!...
HEAVY CLASHES IN TEHRAN!...
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Fox News, Atlas Shrugs, The Spirit of Man, Emptywheel, Open Left, Founding Bloggers, The Strata-Sphere and Washington Monthly
CNN:
Police block protest site in Tehran, witness says
Police block protest site in Tehran, witness says
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WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Statement from the President on Iran — The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people.
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Flopping Aces, The Moderate Voice, The Political Carnival, Washington Monthly and The Reaction
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Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post:
Biden-Obama Axis Shifts Biden's Way on Iran — It's a good thing when a president and vice president have constructive, creative tension in their relationship and don't see eye to eye on everything. Joe Biden has seen his role in the Obama administration as “adviser-in-chief” …
New York Times:
Times Reporter Escapes Taliban After 7 Months — David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Greg Mitchell / The Huffington Post:
Why We Joined the Media Blackout on Kidnapping of NYT Reporter — It was a happy surprise, this morning, just before noon ET, to see the New York Times reveal that one of its top reporters, David Rohde, had escaped from his Taliban kidnappers, after seven months, and was now safe and unharmed.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Emotion Trumps Research Every Time — The NY Times editors are so vexed by what they see as the latest blatant injustice from the Roberts Court that they can't be bothered to read the court's opinion or their own coverage of the case (Matt Yglesias keeps them company). Let's cut to the NY Times editors:
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Wall Street Journal:
Jobs Had Liver Transplant — Apple Chief on Track to Return to Work at End of June; No. 2 May Expand Role — Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago.
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
The difference between addressing someone with their title and “Sir or Ma'am” — Apparently, Barbara Boxer, a Senator from California where some of the biggest military bases exist, doesn't understand respect when she hears it. — As a former Army Officer, if one of my soldiers called me …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Tick Tock, Motherf**kers — A reader writes: … From his mouth to Allah's ears. It is too early and things are too confused for me to agree with him right now. But his points are good ones. — (Photo: Iranian police sit on motorcycles as they face protesters during a demonstration in Tehran on June 20, 2009.
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Michelle Malkin:
AmeriCrooks Watch: Meddling Michelle Obama to keynote volunteerism conference — Well, well, well. — Michelle, Michelle, Michelle. — Guess where the First Lady will be on Monday? — Why, she'll be delivering the keynote address at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco.
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
A Threat We Can't Ignore — Even with the murders that have already occurred, Americans are not paying enough attention to the frightening connection between the right-wing hate-mongers who continue to slither among us and the gun crazies who believe a well-aimed bullet is the ticket to all their dreams.
Jerusalem Post:
‘Movement by the people, for the people’ — Article's topics: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — The following letter from an Iranian student was received by The Jerusalem Post via a professor at a leading American university with close ties to Iran: