Iranian election

As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, TWI is publishing a trove of photographs documenting the summer’s uprising against the disputed election has emerged, thanks to a dedicated network of digital smuggling.

More seriously now. In Iran there’s something called an Assembly of Experts, a clerical body charged with electing the Supreme Leader and ensuring that he holds true to the finest Islamic traditions. One such expert, Ahmed Khatami, has a few suggestions for how the regime ought to treat the protesters who today plan on releasing [...]

As best I can piece together this morning, the Iranian regime’s crackdown is halting the momentum of the opposition. Andrew says he can find no sign of today’s planned rally. No idea about the general strike. The New York Times, however, reports:
… at least three Iranian newspapers reported that of 290 members of the Iranian [...]

Robert Gibbs says the Iranian diplomats are no longer invited to July 4 U.S. embassy cookouts. Good. Did anyone but Jason Zengerle think the invites were some cunning scheme to collect intelligence? I hardly see the value in diplomatic snubbing, but there are tasteful and tasteless ways to engage in outreach to unsavory regimes, and [...]

Nico Pitney, Robert Mackey and Andrew Sullivan compile a lot of information this morning about an uptick in violent regime harassment of the Iranian dissidents. It’s looking increasingly ugly at a critical moment. Even so, over at Time, Tony Karon considers whether the protest movement’s ability to force the regime’s hand might still lead the [...]

Via The Lede, Iran’s state-run PressTV reports that some surely-super-serious “plot” has been disrupted thanks to a raid on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s Tehran headquarters:
Documents found in the building indicate an ongoing plot against Iran’s security was being implemented, the police said in a statement.
“After scrutinizing the building, which was the campaign office of a presidential [...]

The conservative GOP representative from California, who probably did more to arm the Mujahideen than anyone else in Congress, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” yesterday to accuse the president of enabling violence in Iran.
If he had been talking a little tougher even a few days ago, we might not have been seeing the violence [...]

Here’s President Obama’s remarks at the start of today’s presser. Note the more-expansive rhetoric and the increased words of support for the Iranian opposition. Without really saying it, he says by implication that the opposition is on “the right side of history.”
First, I’d like to say a few words about the situation in Iran. The [...]

In our conversation, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) referred back to the Iran Freedom and Support Act — which he introduced in 2005, and which created a $10 million fund for support of Iranian democracy — as a starting point on how to support Iranian protesters.
“We haven’t used those funds, and we should use them,” [...]

This post is going to get filled, really fast, with irresponsible speculation. So let’s have some fun.
This Washington Post story about the Washington debate over Iran is revealing for two reasons. First, the administration doesn’t seem to be phased by Manichean, inwardly focused arguments through analogy about why President Obama needs to intercede, rhetorically, into [...]