As an addendum to this post, one thing that you do see on the #IranElection hashtag are requests for help with proxy servers and other means of either combatting cyberattack or accessing the internet. That would seem to be an example where the United States could do something More…
Contrary to the calls for President Obama to explictly support the Iranian opposition that Weigel reported on today, here are two Republican voices calling for a more muted American response to the upheaval. First is Nicholas Burns, the Bush administration’s undersecretary of state for political affairs, who last week More…
Michael Goldfarb writes:
Is it possible that the Iraqi election experience had something to do with Iranian expectations of an election? If critics of the war can for just a moment move beyond their own deeply held opinions about the invasion of Iraq — that this was a war
Via Nico “Up at 4 a.m.” Pitney at Huffington Post, Iran’s Guardian Council — the appointed body that ensures that parliamentary decisions don’t get in the way of religious obligations — has agreed to recount disputed votes in the election. But it hasn’t agreed to annul the election, More…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) tweets:
The fraudulent Iranian election has mobilized opposition to the Mullah regime; the U.S. should back them, now’s the time for a regime change
Arrrrgggggh why am I screaming into the wind on this. Why not just announce that we’re going to More…
As if on cue from that last post, Scott Eric Kaufman recounts this recent conversation:
A former student of mine from Iran heard from his brother for the first time in a couple of days. When my student bemoaned the cautiousness of Obama administration’s
Yes, it’s true — Steve Hayes of The Weekly Standard is 100 percent right about a bizarre op-ed from Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett contending that Ahmadinejad won the election fairly. For two very brief rundowns of the myriad problems with the vote, see this Juan Cole More…
From @PersianKiwi just now, a terrifying escalation in the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress the protests:
Baseej shooting in Azadi sq – army standing by and watching for now. #Iranelection
PersianKiwi adds that the shooting was an “unprovoked attack” and s/he sees “first hand” at least one person dead.
Judging from this morning’s Air Force One press gaggle, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs doesn’t want to go beyond what I outlined in today’s piece, policywise:
Q Does the President think the Iranian election was run fairly and that the announced results are accurate?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I
A former minister in the reformist government of Mohammed Khatami just posted on Mir Hossein Moussavi’s Website — which I suppose is unblocked for the moment — that the Islamic Republic is over. Like over, over. The National Iranian American Council’s blog translates:
A friend called who with
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