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...This is the same administration that cut of aid to Honduras because it booted a president who was breaking its constitution and trying to enslave it citizenry. So while the tyrants in Iran are continuing to develop an atomic bomb, and are threatening more attacks on their own people, the Iranian protesters have no hope. You see the United States foreign policy is totally void of a moral fiber...that is the change Obama made.

PRESS RELEASE IHRDC Calls on the World to Prevent Iran from Executing Prisoners Arrested in Connection with the June 12 Presidential Election FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2009 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Today, ILNA, an official Iranian news outlet, announced the creation of a special commission to “determine the fate of recent arrestees.” If history is any barometer, the creation of this commission and the men appointed to it, are ominous signs that the regime intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other human rights activists. The world cannot stand by and watch. Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of the...

Seventy university professors were detained in Iran in a widening government crackdown on protesters, according to a Web site affiliated with Iran's key opposition figure, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who says he was robbed of victory in a rigged presidential election. The professors were detained on Wednesday, immediately after meeting with Mousavi, said the Kalemeh site, which is affiliated with the opposition leader. The report said it is not clear where the detainees were taken. Hundreds protesters and activists are believed to have been taken into custody since the June 12 vote, in which Iran's ruling clerics declared hard-line President Mahmoud...

Even as Ayatollah Khamenei blasted the United States for fomenting unrest in a defiant Friday prayer address in Tehran, President Obama has kept silent, focusing instead on domestic policy. Obama spent more time with TV personality Stephen Colbert, taping a segment for a comedy show, than he did addressing the turmoil in Iran this week. Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up. Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million...

CAIRO (AP) - It seems there will be no public funeral today for a woman who some are calling "Iran's Joan of Arc." Amateur video of a young woman identified as Neda bleeding in the streets hit Facebook and YouTube this weekend and swiftly became an iconic image of Iran's opposition movement. Many are calling her a martyr. The footage appears to capture the woman's death moments after she was shot at a protest. The details of her life and death are difficult to confirm because of the government's media clampdown. An acquaintance of her family says she worked part-time...

... In this regard, we continue to scratch our heads over people — many of whom live in democratic societies themselves — who mute their criticism of what Iran’s own security forces are doing to quash legitimate dissent, expressed by the people of the country through marches and protests. Stories in the media are rife with violence done against men and women protestors, even to the point of outright murder. We think this is a situation that demands forceful denunciation in the loudest terms possible, and not muted “tsk-tsks,” which we note seems to be the order of the day...

I'm Josh Shahryar AKA NiteOwl and I've been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources and have tried maximally to avoid listening to media banter. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my tweets to have happened in the past day and in the past week in Iran. Remember, this is all from tweets. There is NOTHING included here that is not from a reliable tweet. No news media outlets have been used in the compilation of this short brief as...

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Though a longtime freeper, this is my first ever vanity here. I felt it's important to post this vanity about CNN's coverage of the post so-called "elections" in Iran which in my opinion has been one of the best and most thorough in this country. I have already sent them an email thanking them for their excellent coverage because contrary to the left which never acknowledges anything positive on the right, we should, and do, give credit where credit's due. THEREFORE, THANK YOU CNN FOR FINALLY -- AND SO FULLY AND TRUTHFULLY -- COVERING THE MASS PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY...

Millions of people on the streets in Iran are fighting for the basic right of self-determination... how much of this is due to President Obama's Cairo speech.... if any? It's good, old-fashioned political pugilism when EC takes on Rock from the African-American Political Slugfest.

AHMADINEJAD VS. NETANYAHU: THE MOST LIKELY OUTCOME OF IRAN'S "ELECTIONS" IS ANOTHER REGIONAL WARNote: I may be on Glenn Beck today to discuss Iran and Netanyahu. Please check weblog for updates. By Joel C. Rosenberg (Washington, D.C., June 15, 2009) -- The Supreme Leader of Iran has spoken, and it is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for another four years. A major, cataclysmic war is the most likely outcome of the Iranian elections. And the battle lines are clear. It's Netanyahu vs. Ahmadinejad -- Bibi vs. Mahmoud -- and the big question is: Who will strike first?This weekend's events in Iran tell us...

TEHRAN, Iran—More than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied an Interior Ministry ban Monday and streamed into central Tehran to cheer their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since elections that he alleges were marred by fraud.

mousavi1388 Dear Iranian People, Mousavi has not left you alone, he has been put under house arrest by Ministry of Intelligence #IranElection about 4 hours ago from web A friend who works in the media sent me the pictures below of the riots going on in Iran today as the voting public expresses their anger over the sham elections Leading Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a statement warning of "tyranny" Saturday after a tense night in Iran in which state organs proclaimed that incumbent hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a "landslide" victory by a two-to-one...

Per @BreakingNews: CNN: U.S. military urges American forces to maintain discipline and prudence if they encounter any Iranian military or security forces.Also: CNN: Military commanders have been sent a highly classified message amid concerns of potential unrest surrounding Iran’s election.

If breaking news would favor the right, probably blogs and twitter are your best hope. What you won't see on PMSNBC or CNN: On twitter: try #iranelection or #iranelections

Clear and Present Danger The stakes in Iran. By Kenneth R. Timmerman June 16, 2005 Iran's people face yet another faked election this Friday, with eight candidates for president, all handpicked by the regime, facing off in a tragic parody of democracy. The parody is obvious. Hundreds of other candidates were disqualified well before the vote by the Council of Guardians, including every single woman who sought to run. The Council of 12 radical clerics, desperate to maintain the absolute rule of the clergy, was careful to allow only candidates they could count on to tow the line if elected....