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CNN:
Zakaria: ‘Fatal wound’ inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology — Editor's note: Fareed Zakaria is an author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN at 1 and 5 p.m. ET Sundays. — The decisive margin of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in elections …
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New York Times:
Tehran Tense After Clashes That Killed at Least 13 — TEHRAN — A day after police and militia forces used guns, truncheons, tear gas and water cannons to beat back thousands of demonstrators, a tense quiet set over this city Sunday as the standoff between the government and thousands …
BBC:
Iran TV says 10 killed in Tehran protests — Iranians have been sending the BBC footage of protests — At least 10 people were killed when police clashed with “terrorists” in Tehran on Saturday, state TV says. — The official reports, which cannot be confirmed, accuse “rioters” …
Times of India:
Rafsanjani's daughter arrested in Iran — Text: — TEHRAN: The daughter of Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and four relatives were arrested over their involvement in protests against alleged election fraud in Iran, the Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets
A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Will calls right-wing attacks on Obama's Iran response ‘foolish criticism.’ — Since turmoil broke out in Iran over the country's disputed elections last week, conservatives have been forcefully criticizing President Obama for not doing enough to intervene on the side of those protesting.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IT'S NOT EXACTLY LEFT VS RIGHT.... On ABC's “This Week” earlier, George Will, hardly a liberal ally of the president, noted that he's heard the criticism of the Obama administration's tactics regarding Iran, and he finds it unpersuasive. … Ben Armbruster noted that Peggy Noonan …
Washington Post:
Iranian Government Media Declares Mousavi a ‘Criminal’ — Iranian government media Sunday launched a campaign against Mir Hussein Mousavi and his supporters, calling the leader of the protests over Iran's disputed election a “criminal” and comparing demonstrators to members of a hated terrorist group.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Can Obama still want talks with Iranian mullahs? — What kind of democratic leader deliberately chooses to ignore and then downplay a grassroots, democratic movement against tyrants in order to preserve some hope of negotiating with the tyrants for a less-hostile relationship with them?
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Mousavi's statement number 5 to Iranian people — In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful — God commands you to return what you've been entrusted with to its owners, and to judge in justice when you judge among the people. [Koranic quote] — Honorable and intelligent people of Iran,
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Media Agreed to Stay Silent on Kidnapping of Reporter David Rohde — News Organizations Agreed to Protect Reporter's Safety — There were times during the kidnapping ordeal of New York Times reporter David Rohde when his boss wavered in his determination to suppress the story.
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Lisa Derrick / La Figa:
Tehran Protests: Her Name Was Neda (Warning: Graphic Video) — The global community has been galvanized by the tweets, Facebook logins, cellphone pictures and reports from Iran. Now comes this video of a young a woman shot in Tehran by Basiji police force, which I came across after seeing …
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Alexandra Zavis / Babylon & Beyond:
IRAN: Footage of woman apparently shot in Tehran galvanizes opposition
IRAN: Footage of woman apparently shot in Tehran galvanizes opposition
Steve Schippert / ThreatsWatch:
ThreatsWatch.Org - RapidRecon: Neda: The Voice of Iran
ThreatsWatch.Org - RapidRecon: Neda: The Voice of Iran
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Obama Closes Doors on Openness — From the magazine issue dated Jun 29, 2009 — As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding “secret energy meetings” with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed …
Phillip Inman / Guardian:
Goldman to make record bonus payout — Surviving banks accused of undermining stability — Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks …
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Glenn W. Smith / Firedoglake:
Slavery and the Health Care Crisis — The gravity of America's health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century's bloody conflict over slavery. This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost in abstract talk of insurance company profits, treatment costs, and other cold, inhuman analyses.
New York Times:
In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health — Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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