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Moussavi Declares Victory

By | 06.12.09 | 3:18 pm

It’s been going around on Twitter for the past five minutes, and here’s a Reuters report saying the same thing.

“I am the definite winner of this presidential election,” [Mir Hossein Moussavi] told a news conference in Tehran.

No statement yet from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Supreme Leader Khamenei.

Update: More…

Moussavi Engages in Public Diplomacy Via Joe Klein

By | 06.12.09 | 2:29 pm

Joe Klein sat down with Mir Hossein Moussavi and got a couple answers directly salient for a U.S. audience. They confirm some of the impressions left by Moussavi’s al-Jazeera interview, particularly regarding certain consensus positions in Iranian foreign policy. Moussavi tells Klein something President Obama would find very heartening: More…

Ahmadinejad Losing on Twitter

By | 06.12.09 | 12:46 pm

Can it really be that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn’t have any supporters on Twitter using either the #iran or #iranelections hashtags? Challenger Mir-Hossein Moussavi’s supporters are absolutely shellacking him on Twitter. It’s like Daniel Pipes is his only defender.