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3:35 AM ET, June 14, 2009

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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.
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)  —  There are rumors of a protest at Vali-Asr today at 12:30pm.  —  This is a trap. please pass this on to everyone you know.  The official word from Mousavi HQ is hold back and wait for word.  —  DO NOT ATTEND THE VALI-ASR PROTEST.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Harry's Place and Time
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Gateway Pundit:
Madness!  Obama Administration Silent As Iranian Students …
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Iran: There Will Be Blood
Discussion: The Daily Beast and FP Passport
Laura Secor / News Desk:   Iran's Stolen Election
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Riots in Iran: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Bill Keller / New York Times:   Reverberations as Door Slams on Hopes of Change
Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:
Iran: Don't Lead, Don't Follow, And Instead Get Out Of The Way
Discussion: CNN and Washington Monthly
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   Follow-Up On Earlier Posts
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 …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Macsmind
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John Schwartz / New York Times:   Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit Over Claims of Torture
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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Ezra Levant:
Jennifer Lynch tries to bully CTV into cancelling my appearance on the news  —  This evening, Jennifer Lynch, the chief commissar of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, tried to have CTV Newsnet kick me off their interview program Power Play, hosted by Tom Clark.
Discussion: five feet of fury. and Jay Currie
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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