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Wishful thinking from Tehran

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Abbas Barzegar - Jun. 13 (Opinion) - Iran is a deeply religious society. Of the Shah's mistakes nepotism, autocracy, and repression were fought by communists and liberals for decades with no success, but it was his attack on the religious establishment that led to his almost overnight demise.

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Roll up ... the Iranian election is about to begin

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Cameron Abadi - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Iranians imagined that this year’s presidential campaign would be hard fought, but no one quite expected what it has become: a spark for uncontrolled street revelry; a platform for hostile name-calling between ill-tempered candidates; and an opportunity to hold a referendum on the achievements of the 1979 revolution.

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Saudi Arabia: A Player in Middle East Elections

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Jun. 13 (News Analysis) - Saudi Arabia shifts its focus from Lebanon to Iran. Mousavi finds support from Saudi-run media outlets. Will the monarchy influence these elections too?

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About Those Iran Polls - Behind the Numbers

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jon Cohen - Jun. 15 (News Analysis) - Public opinion surveys are central to the Iranian opposition's argument that the elections there were rigged for incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: they cite unspecified polls showing the main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi with a "strong lead in the final days of the campaign," according to the New York Times.

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Saudi Arabia: A Player in Middle East Elections

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Jun. 12 (Opinion) - It is a contradiction to mention Saudi Arabia (an absolute monarchy) and elections in the same sentence; however, no country in the Middle East, as of late, has been more invested in this democratic process than Saudi Arabia. For the record, election is part of the democratic process; Saudi Arabia is not.

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Iranian Election Crisis

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Fareed Zakaria, Christiane Amanpour - Jun. 14 (Breaking News) - CNN Christiane Amanpour gives Fareed Zakaria her take on Iran's election.

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Politics Done Right: Iran Does Have Some Fishy Numbers

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

FiveThirtyEight - By Renard Sexton - Jun. 15 (Investigative Report) - Again, as we have mentioned on several occasions, the numbers still do not prove any wrongdoing, as large scale changes in public opinion do happen regularly around the world. However, given the polling data in the run-up to the balloting, and the historical trend away from electoral domination in the first round by one candidate, this very fishy regional data tends to strongly support that which the canceled Mousavi protest was meant to express.

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Iran's election: A disputed victory

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jun. 13 (News Report) - In a confused denouement to one of the more exciting political dramas since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, electoral authorities declared the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the likely victor in a fiercely fought contest for Iran’s presidency. His claim to a 65% landslide appeared to bury the hopes of the main challenger, Hosein Mousavi, a former prime minister and relative liberal whose campaign gained rapid momentum in its last days, inspiring huge, boisterous street demonstrations. The two other contenders trailed far behind in the official count, with barely 3% of the vote between them.

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In Iran, an Iron Cleric, Now Blinking

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Neil MacFarquhar - Jun. 16 (News Analysis) - Few suggest yet that Ayatollah Khamenei’s hold on power is at risk. But, analysts say, he has opened a serious fissure in the face of Islamic rule and one that may prove impossible to patch over, particularly given the fierce dispute over the election that has erupted amid the elite veterans of the 1979 revolution. Even his strong links to the powerful Revolutionary Guards — long his insurance policy — may not be decisive as the confrontation in Iran unfolds.

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Iran Protests

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Jun. 16 (News Report) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is under increasing international pressure over the disputed results of Friday's election.

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Ahmadinejad Re-Elected; Protests Flare

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert F. Worth - Jun. 13 (News Report) - The Iranian government declared an outright election victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday morning, and riot police officers fought with supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, who insisted that the election had been stolen.

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Both Sides Claim Victory in Presidential Election in Iran

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert F. Worth - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - Iran’s state-run news agency said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won Iran’s presidential election in a landslide just two hours after the polls closed Friday night. But his main rival, Mir Hussein Moussavi, announced defiantly that he had won and charged that there had been voting “irregularities.”

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Stealing the Iranian Election

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Jun. 14 (News Analysis) - The public demonstrations against the result don't appear to be that big. In the past decade, reformers have always backed down in Iran when challenged by hardliners, in part because no one wants to relive the horrible Great Terror of the 1980s after the revolution, when faction-fighting produced blood in the streets. Mousavi is still from that generation.

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The Iranian People Speak

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ken Ballen, Patrick Doherty - Jun. 15 (Poll) - The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people. Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote showed Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin -- greater than his actual apparent margin of victory in Friday's election.

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One shot dead at banned Iran rally

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Emma Hayward - Jun. 16 (News Report) - At least one person has been killed after armed men opened fire during a banned pro-opposition rally in Tehran.

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Why Iran '09 Could Be Like Florida '00

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Karim Sadjadpour - Jun. 11 (News Analysis) - Americans can be forgiven for being a bit confused about the upcoming Iranian elections. While four years ago Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Iran a "totalitarian" state, today some media outlets are touting Mir Hossein Mousavi -- incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's strongest challenger -- as Iran's Barack Obama. Though Iranian politics are wholly unique, analyzing these elections in an American political context -- however incongruous the comparison -- may offer some clarity.

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Obama couldn't sway the Iranian election even if he wanted to.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Fred Kaplan - Jun. 12 (Opinion) - Ahmadinejad has great appeal among rural voters; he bills himself as one of them, plays to their Islamic conservatism, and lavishes enormous subsidies on them. He is greatly disliked in the cities for those same economic policies, which cause massive inflation, as well as for his repression of modern lifestyles, especially of women's rights.

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Muted Response Reflects U.S. Diplomatic Dilemma

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Jun. 15 (News Report) - The confused aftermath of Iran’s presidential election is complicating the Obama administration’s planned outreach to the Islamic republic and underscoring the challenges facing the president’s new approach to the Middle East based on shared values and common interests.

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Mousavi supporters in new protest

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 16 (News Report) - Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, again defied a government ban to take to the streets of Tehran on Tuesday. Several people died in a huge pro-opposition rally on Monday and Mr Mousavi later urged his followers not to stage another demonstration, amid fears of new violence.

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Iranian Election: Media Matters

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Jun. 13 (News Analysis) - State TV gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more airtime but Mir Hossein Mousavi was the favorite of the Internet. How the Iranian media covered the historic presidential election.

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Isfahan and the Vote

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tehran Bureau - By Amir Momeni - Jun. 12 (Special Report) - as the election draws near, the city has never felt so eclectic or gripped with so much excitement. Everywhere I go people are talking about the election, everyone is passionately campaigning on behalf of his or her candidate, and at nightfall the city turns into a massive political arena with supporters marching, chanting, singing, dancing and occasionally fighting.

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Iran: Protests and Repression

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Hamid Tehrani - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - Although Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are currently blocked in Iran, many Iranians have been using proxies to bypass filters and report up-to-the-minute news. Iranian authorities have also blocked SMS text messages, and are also filtering several news websites reflecting reformist opinions.

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Snapshots from Tehran's Revolution Square

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Iason Athanasiadis - Jun. 16 (News Report) - It was the largest non-regime organized demonstration in the 30-year history of Iran's Islamic Republic. And for once, the ruling order had not a jot of influence in organizing it.

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Voting Begins In Iran's Presidential Election

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Radio Free Europe - Jun. 12 (Breaking News) - Iranians have begun voting in the 10th presidential election since the establishment in their country of a clerically dominated constitution after the 1979 revolution. Four candidates are competing after what has been a hard-fought campaign that has seen unprecedented public debates, massive rallies, and conspicuous displays of partisanship in the streets.

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Crunching Iranian Election Numbers For Evidence of Fraud

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Jun. 16 (News Analysis) - The speed with which the results were certified and the wide margin of victory, coupled with some statistical anomalies, have led many to believe the vote was rigged. Experts say the results are suspicious but not conclusive.

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