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Iran condemns West's 'interference'

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has told the US and Britain to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs following its disputed presidential election on June 12. The US and other Western nations have criticised the police crackdown on the mass protests that followed his re-election and some have backed calls for a recount of ballots.

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Deaths confirmed in Iran unrest

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 21 (Breaking News) - Iran's state media has said at least 13 people were killed amid unrest in Tehran on Saturday, as thousands of protesters clashed with police in the fallout of the disputed presidential election. The television reports on Sunday blamed rioters and "terrorist groups" for the incidents, saying two petrol stations and a mosque had been set alight, and a military outpost attacked.

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Speaking truth to power

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Roxana Saberi - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - "Just a moment," an Iranian friend typed as we chatted online, "while I upload my photos of today's protest onto Facebook." He is only one of many ordinary Iranians informing the world about the momentous events taking place in Iran since the country's disputed June 12 presidential election. As traditional media outlets and foreign journalists have faced mounting government restrictions on their reporting, "citizen journalists" have stepped in. Through e-mails, blogs and social-networking Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter, they have been disseminating photos, video and eyewitness accounts of street clashes and violence between anti-government demonstrators and Iranian security forces and militiamen.

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The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Renesys Blog - By James Cowie - Jun. 21 (Research) - As an experiment, we geolocated a list of about 2,000 web proxies (unique IP addresses and port numbers) that were shared on Twitter and other web sites over the course of the last week, to see if we could discern patterns in the places that are hosting them. Most of these are no longer reachable from inside Iran, of course, precisely because they were made public. The following map shows the distribution of those proxies worldwide.

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CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Pakistan Daily - By Pakistan Daily - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution.

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What do the CIA, John McCain, the Iran Uprising, the Afghanistan War, and your Lockheed-Martin Stocks have in Common?

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

stopwar.lafilmonline.com - By Jon Raymond - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - We “elected” a president twice under highly questionable circumstances, a corrupt Supreme Court, corrupt election officials, a governor of Florida who used his authority in miscounting votes to see that his brother was elected, and hacked election machines in at least two recent presidential elections.

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How to run a protest without Twitter

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - Jun. 20 (Special Report) - we talked to past protest leaders to find out how they toppled governments and grabbed the world's attention before there were mobile phones or an Internet.

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Iran police use teargas on election protesters, witnesses say

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jun. 20 (Breaking News) - Iranian riot police beat protesters and fired tear gas as violence erupted in Tehran today when thousands of members of the opposition movement took to the streets in open defiance of the country's supreme leader.

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The Devil Is in the Digits: Evidence That Iran's Election Was Rigged

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - We'll concentrate on vote counts -- the number of votes received by different candidates in different provinces -- and in particular the last and second-to-last digits of these numbers. For example, if a candidate received 14,579 votes in a province (Mr. Karroubi's actual vote count in Isfahan), we'll focus on digits 7 and 9.

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Opposition Protesters Clash With Riot Police in Tehran

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Thomas Erdbrink, William Branigin - Jun. 20 (News Report) - Police blocked downtown streets and used tear gas and water cannons Saturday to disrupt a planned march by protesters demanding the nullification of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection, eyewitnesses said.

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In Tehran, fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Robert Fisk - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - Fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows, but once they are combined and spread with high-speed inaccuracy around the world, they are also lethal. Sham elections, the takeover of party offices, a massacre on a university campus, an imminent coup d'état, the possible overthrow of the whole 30-year old Islamic Republic, the isolation of an entire country as its communications are systematically shut down.

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Iran: Protesters break a taboo and defy Khamenei

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Hamid Tehrani - Jun. 20 (Special Report) - One day after Islamic Republic Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced protests and warned reformist leaders against taking to the streets, thousands of people demonstrated in Tehran. They were joined by others in several cities across Iran in ignoring Khamenei's order and voicing their anger against the June 12 presidential election results. They clashed with Iranian police who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.

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Obama resists pressure to speak out more forcefully on Iran

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Linda Feldmann - Jun. 20 (News Report) - Amid calls for a tougher response, President Obama is striking a cautious tone toward an Iranian government crackdown on demonstrators.

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Iran on the brink?

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Mark LeVine - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - In 15 years of writing about the Middle East, I have never encountered a situation that changed so fast that one could write an article that becomes outdated in the time it takes to write it.

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There's No False Choice on Iran

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Fred Barnes - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - confronted by a popular revolt in Iran, Obama has succumbed to a false choice. Either support the democratic forces in Iran aligned against the rigged presidential election or preserve his chance to negotiate with the Ahmadinejad regime for a nuclear arms deal--one or the other. The president thinks he's stuck with a dilemma. He's not. The two options aren't mutually exclusive. The choice is indeed false.

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Parsing Iran's 'Momentous' Internal Drama