memeorandum: President Delivers Exhortation to Fathers (Helene Cooper/New York Times)

1:35 PM ET, June 20, 2009

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Iranian Police Clash With Protesters — TEHRAN — One day after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of bloodshed if street protests continued over the nation's disputed elections, witnesses, quoted by news services, said that thousands of demonstrators had attempted to gather …

Discussion: At-Largely, Neptunus Lex, RealClearWorld, Washington Monthly, Reuters, The Cable, The Field on the Narcosphere, Air America Media blogs and The Mahablog

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.] — 1.05 pm. Mousavi - confirmed - IF I AM ARRESTED THE NATION IS TO STRIKE INDEFINITELY — 12.53 pm.

Discussion: Aljazeera, The Field on the Narcosphere, niacINsight, Revolutionary Road, Open Left and Winds of Change.NET

Matthew Weaver / News: News blog:

Iran protests: live — Police have clashed with protesters in Iran as the opposition movement continue its street protests against re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in defiance of threats from the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Follow live updates on what is being seen as a crucial day in Iran

Discussion: BBC, Aljazeera, Salon, Guardian, Sister Toldjah, Enduring America, France24, Harry's Place, NPR Blogs, Associated Press and presstv.ir

CNN:

Police block protest site in Tehran, witness says — TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Heavily armed police prevented several thousand Iranian protesters Saturday from entering Revolution Square — one of the main protest sites in Tehran, a witness told CNN. — About a mile away, police kept the crowd …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The New Ledger, Fox News, Gateway Pundit, Payvand Iran News and Daniel W. Drezner

Robin Henry / Times of London:

Riot police clash with demonstrators in Iran — Protesters challenging elections despite warnings from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with tear gas, batons, water cannons — Iran was rocked by violent clashes today as demonstrators defied their Supreme Leader's warnings of ‘bloodshed’ to take to the streets.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Los Angeles Times, Atlas Shrugs and New York Times

Weekly Standard:

Resolutely Irresolute — Obama dithers while Tehran burns. — The events of the past week in Iran, following the June 12 presidential election there, have been remarkable and hopeful. It's been a moment when one would like a president of the United States—who has, in such moments …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Michelle Malkin:
Saturday in Iran — U.S. media are relying on state TV to figure …

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Reuters:
Suicide bomber attacks Khomeini shrine in Iran

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Riehl World View

Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Resists Calls for a Tougher Stance on Iran

Discussion: The Hill's Blog Briefing Room and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Guardian:
I speak for Mousavi. And Iran

Discussion: Times of London, The Moderate Voice, Newshoggers.com, Washington Post, Hot Air, the talking dog, Taylor Marsh, Achenblog, The Field on the Narcosphere, Wake up America, The Confluence, Payvand Iran News, Informed Comment, The Washington Note and Associated Press

Roger Cohen / New York Times:
City of Whispers — TEHRAN — This has become the city of whispers.

Discussion: McClatchy Washington Bureau, Eunomia, News Desk, Firedoglake and The Daily Dish

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Obama, the Right and defendants' rights — On Thursday, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision (.pdf), ruled that convicted criminals have no constitutional right to access the state's evidence in order to subject it to DNA tests which could prove their innocence.

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Impolitic

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Conservative Justices' Strange Enthusiasm for the Punishment of the Innocent

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money and The League of Ordinary …

New York Times:
Unparalleled and Denied — In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday …

Discussion: TalkLeft, The Moderate Voice, Blue Mass. Group and Washington Post

Fox News:

NIH Funds $423,500 Study of Why Men Don't Like to Use Condoms — In what government watchdogs are calling a waste of taxpayer money, the National Institutes of Health is spending nearly half a million dollars to determine why men don't like to wear condoms during sex. — FOXNews.com

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Fausta's Blog, News Hounds and Patterico's Pontifications

Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice: Govt. Study to Determine Why Dogs Scratch at Fleas

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.

Discussion: The Atlantic Politics Channel, Washington Monthly, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room and Gawker

John / Power Line:

Why Is Obama AWOL on Iran? — Across a broad swath of the political spectrum—including just about everyone, really, except the far Left, slavish Obamaphiles and the sinister Ron Paul—a consensus has developed that Barack Obama was wrong-footed by the Iranian election and the ensuing revolt in that country.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Don Surber, Associated Press and Fausta's Blog

Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
Obama Clueless on Iran

Discussion: Washington Post, Riehl World View, Centerfield, Washington Monthly, Wizbang, New York Times and Stop The ACLU

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

On Terrorist Watch List, but Allowed to Buy Guns — WASHINGTON — People on the government's terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them, according to a new government report.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Instapundit

Tim Craig / Washington Post:

D.C. Expands List Of Allowed Guns To Avert Lawsuit — The D.C. government released emergency regulations yesterday that greatly expand the models of handguns that District residents can own, a shift designed to stave off another lawsuit over its compliance with the Second Amendment.

Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Obama Job Approval Slips to 58% for First Time — Lowest reading for Obama thus far in Gallup Poll Daily tracking — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval rating fell to 58% in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from June 16-18 — a new low for Obama in Gallup tracking …

Discussion: Wizbang, Scared Monkeys, Hotline On Call and Donklephant

Helene Cooper / New York Times:

President Delivers Exhortation to Fathers — WASHINGTON — President Obama donned his father-in-chief hat on Friday, devoting much of his afternoon to emphasizing the importance of mentors and father figures for young people and to prodding young men to be better parents.

Discussion: Fraters Libertas and BAGnewsNotes

Moni Basu / CNN:

Women in Iran march against discrimination — (CNN) — Like thousands of other Iranian women, Parisa took to Tehran's streets this week, her heart brimming with hope. “Change,” said the placards around her. — The young Iranian woman eyed the crowd and pondered the possibility that the rest …

Discussion: Informed Comment and Jihad Watch

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:

Discussion: Power Line and Israel Matzav