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 More…
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,
Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard. Jocelyn provides a much-more-sophisticated-than-usual take on the proposition that the Iranian regime is just going to blame whatever the opposition does on shadowy western More…
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 More…
That’s the line from the Guardian Council. As The Wall Street Journal reports, this is part of the regime trying to stop the opposition, especially ahead of today’s planned general strike. With its central demand ruled out, the contradictions in Iran are heightening. @PersianKiwi hears “reports that More…
The National Iranian American Council publishes.” this email, describing it as authored by an “ordinary Tehrani.”
Dear friend, if you have any contacts within the American Administration, please send them this message on behalf of us, ordinary Iranians in Iran (whose interests and concerns are very different from those
Woe is the reporter on deadline, for he must miss the New America Foundation’s internal disputes over Iran. I had hoped to make it over to New America right now for a much-anticipated discussion with the think tank’s energetic and spirited advocates for all sides of the Iran-policy question, but More…
Two new ones from the tireless Iranian dissenter worth highlighting. First:
Hospital sources – at least 1000 people injured so far by Gov in the streets against Sea of Green
confirmed source – All major cities in Iran now reporting saound of Allah Akbar – Death to the
So tweets @TehranBureau, a fascinating source of Iran-opposition news. The New York Times reports that the Revolutionary Guards are vowing to inflict even more violence if the protests don’t end, despite the Guardian Council’s admission that 50 cities cast more ballots than had registered voters.
Some more More…
After a day of horrific violence in Iran, Mir Hussein Moussavi issued this statement to the opposition and to the world. (Via Andrew.) The most compelling description of the relationship between Moussavi and fellow presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi to the opposition is that they’re the vehicles for More…
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