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12:00 AM ET, June 20, 2009

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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
The Four Iran Scenarios and “Basiji Hunting”  —  One of my colleagues at the New America Foundation's Global Strategic Finance Initiative, Douglas Rediker, received this note from a friend abroad.  It's illuminating as to how a well-connected Iranian internationalist who has been in Tehran during …
Discussion: BBC
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Guardian:
I speak for Mousavi.  And Iran  —  The man Iranians want as their leader has been silenced.  This is what he wants you to know  —  I have been given the ­responsibility of telling the world what is happening in Iran.  The office of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who the Iranian people truly want as their leader, has asked me to do so.
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
City of Whispers  —  TEHRAN — This has become the city of whispers.  Many of the people I spoke to when I arrived last week are in prison.  Stabbings and shootings punctuate the night.  Fear rushes down alleys and dead ends.  Still the whispering continues.  —  “Tomorrow, Vanak Square.”
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Daily Dish
New York Times:
Iran Leader's Warning Puts More Pressure on Obama  —  TEHRAN — Taking an unequivocal stand against days of mass protests, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sternly warned opposition supporters on Friday to stay off the streets and raised the prospect of violence if their defiant, vast demonstrations continued.
The New Republic:
Iran's ‘Super Friday’ Turns to ‘Super Saturday’
Discussion: Hot Air
Jon Lee Anderson / News Desk:
Understanding The Basij  —  Thirty years ago, during …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House approves Iran bill 405-1  —  The House overwhelmingly approved a resolution Friday in support of Iranian dissidents as that country's top cleric warned protesters to end demonstrations.  —  The resolution was approved in a 405-1 vote, with two members voting present.
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Obama aides toned down Iran resolution
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Dem Congressman: 'We cannot stand silent in the face of this assault …
Discussion: Commentary
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Sullivan, Froomkin, Hiatt, Iran and AIPAC  —  The incipient Iranian revolution has upset certain political categories at home, two to be exact: Scowcroftian realism and liberal interventionism (a/k/a neoconservatism).  Both, IMHO, are inadequate to the current crisis.
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Las Vegas Sun:
Text of Doug Hampton's letter to Fox News  —  Editor's note: Doug Hampton, the husband of Cynthia Hampton, who had an affair with Sen. John Ensign, explains in a letter to a Fox News Channel anchorwoman, Megyn Kelly, how the senator's affair with his wife has"completely ruined" the couple's lives.
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The Huffington Post:
Fox News Denies Report: We Didn't Force Ensign To Admit Affair  —  Fox New is denying claims that Doug Hampton — whose wife Cynthia is the other woman in Senator John Ensign's sex scandal — sent the network a letter pleading for help exposing the affair five days before the Senator announced …
The Huffington Post:
DOJ: We Can't Release Cheney Records Because Of Late Night Comedy  —  But this pull from the original AP story, which captures the reasoning of Justice Department for attempting to deny the request, is simply mind-blowing: … I hardly think that citing the need to shield public figures …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Conservative Justices' Strange Enthusiasm for the Punishment of the Innocent  —  Here's a beaut of a decision from the increasingly brutal and inhumane conservative-dominated Supreme Court.  Not content with gutting anti-discrimination legislation, a 5-4 majority has decided that if people …
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New York Times:
Unparalleled and Denied  —  In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority tossed aside compelling due process claims, the demands of justice and a considered decision by a lower federal appeals court to deny the right of prisoners to obtain post-conviction DNA testing …
Betsy McCaughey / Wall Street Journal:
Dissecting the Kennedy Health Bill  —  No, you won't be able to keep your insurance if you like it.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Last September Sen. Barack Obama promised that under his health-care proposal “you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.”
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David Whelan / Forbes:
Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
House eyes new taxes as senators pare health bill
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and A Blog For All
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Administration Set To Hold Powwow With Big Gay Groups  —  The Obama Justice Department has reached out to major gay rights organizations and scheduled a private meeting for next week with the groups, in an apparent effort to smooth over tensions in the wake of the controversy …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
NeoCon Derangement Syndrome On Steroids  —  To read Andrew Sullivan's posts on the suppression of the opposition in Iran, you would think American “NeoCons” (whoever they may be) were in the streets swinging batons from the backs of motorcycles, trashing the library at Tehran University …
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Sullivan and Khamenei Agree: Jews Control the Media
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Mondoweiss
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Coming Crackdown  —  [T]he green light has now been given to the basij to kick ass and take names.  “The way of the law is open,” [Khamenei] says.  “If people continue to take the other way, I will come back and speak more directly.”  Qanun, qanun, qanun.  Law, law, law.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney  —  Lost in the news yesterday about the polls showing eroding support for Obama's policies was a funny detail in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: The overall popularity of the Republican Party has now dropped below even the abysmal level of approval enjoyed by Dick Cheney.
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Ezra Klein:
Listen to the Polls  —  Yesterday's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll …
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport:
Iran analyst: Is Mousavi willing to risk “slaughter” in the streets?  —  Carnegie Endowment Iran analyst Karim Sadjadpour sends along an update to his Q&A with CFR:
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
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Associated Press:
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