UPDATE (11:52): According to MSNBC “breaking news,” the British Foreign Office is evacuating families of their staff from Iran. UPDATE (11:45): Set your Twitter clocks… It’s take 2 of Ken Ballen’s TFT election polling (here’s the first report I filed and the LiveTwitter feed). So, I’ll be reporting live from the New America Foundation event [...]
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For Neda, Iran
In the name of God We all come from Him and will go back to Him The great and dignified Iranian nation: With much sorrow I was informed that, during peaceful rallies to defend their lawful rights, the great Iranian people have been attacked [by the security forces], beaten, and bloodied, and killed. While expressing [...]
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Bill O’Reilly’s Guilt
“I’m reporting a fact. If they had gotten behind me, babies would be alive today.” – Bill O’Reilly “They” in the quote above refers to conservative commentators. O’Reilly said this in a back and forth with Laura Ingraham on “The Factor” Thursday. As he turned his ire towards conservatives, which even took Ingraham a bit [...]
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A Curious Document, and Khamanei’s Friday Prayer
Mousavi’s speech to supporters as translated (pictures here). Also at that link comes a report that the Basij have… begun to cover their faces, whereas previously they hadn’t. This indicates they are becoming more scared of retaliation from the general public. … It’s interesting to see some in the feared militias themselves becoming afraid of [...]
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The ‘Green Wave’ Revolution is Not Ours
Non-violent and calm represents the “green wave” revolution so far in Iran, the video pictured here circulating everywhere. How will the neocons reconcile that picture with the crazy Ahmadinejad caricature he’s imprinted as Iran’s image in the world since his rein began? See Robert Kagan. Segue to Matt Duss who dismantles Robert Kagan’s nakedly obtuse [...]
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The Unwinding in Iran
UPDATE (1:31 p.m.): Rafsanjani: shark or kingmaker?, posted yesterday (h/t TLede). Also see my UPDATE (12:34 p.m.) below. Maybe both, after all, politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran isn’t, to use an American saying, bean bag. The super-rich Rafsanjani, his family, and his supporters in the reformist Kargozaran party make no bones about helping [...]
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Claire McCaskill Takes a Page from Truman
…in a break from the riveting Iranian developments, a little politics (and, no, I’m not talking about John Ensign going all “Big Love”). As someone born in Missouri, I always keep an eye on what happens there, especially since my big bro still lives there. Now, it’s no secret that McCaskill has never been one [...]
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In Historic Shift Guardian Council Agrees to Limited Vote Recount
UPDATE (7:33 p.m.): NPR reporting… Security officials posing as clients entered the Tehran offices of one of Iran’s leading human rights lawyers today and arrested him, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi just told NPR’s Davar Iran Ardalan. … “Once they were inside they immediately confiscated his computer and other documents and they arrested Mr. [...]
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Obama to Iran: ‘The World is Watching and Inspired’
After remaining patient, silently considering what has happened in the last days, but especially what’s played out over this remarkable day, President Obama made his first statement on the “green revolution”, my term not the President’s, that is unfolding. “…It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be. We respect [...]
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Amidst A Revolution
–updated– “DON’T GIVE UP” – Vaclav Havel ______ “I have submitted my request for canceling the elections to the Guardian Council. I am certain recent reactions are not for me, but it is out of concern for the new political order that is being imposed on our country.” – niacInsight Nice statement, not going to [...]
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Did Ahmadinejad Actually Win?
cross-posted at Huffington Post Update: Write up of the event here. Allegations of fraud and electoral manipulation will serve to further isolate Iran and are likely to increase its belligerence and intransigence against the outside world. Before other countries, including the United States, jump to the conclusion that the Iranian presidential elections were fraudulent, with [...]
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The Next Iranian Revolution On Deck
She was in tears like many women on the streets of Iran’s battered capital. “Throw away your pen and paper and come to our aid,” she said, pointing to my notebook. “There is no freedom here.” [...] Majir Mirpour grabbed me. A purple bruise disfigured his arm. He raised his shirt to show a red [...]
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Mousavi: ‘It’s a Coup d’Etat’
video via Huffington Post All hell has broken out in Iran. Read Juan Cole. Via Newsweek: [...] Saeid Shariati, one of the leaders of Mousavi’s campaign, says that 17 million votes may be missing. Another Mousavi campaigner who did not want to be named said that in different cities around Iran, the result of ballot [...]
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Iran Election ‘Results’ Reveal ‘Irregularities’
The reported election results out of Iran are wholly unbelievable. Could Ahmadinejad have pulled off a victory? Sure, but not at the level the Iranian government is claiming. “Communication disruptions” are being reported starting late on Friday. The rest is written by the Iranian government, which is actually controlled by the Supreme Leader, with a [...]
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Obama Up Against It On Gitmo
The blaring headline accompanying this leaked reality is disappointing: The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States, administration officials said yesterday, a decision that reflects bipartisan congressional opposition to admitting such prisoners but complicates efforts to persuade European [...]
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