A Shift on Iran
Washington Post – United States
IRAN’S POLITICAL crisis will not end anytime soon. Though the government has managed, through brute force and uncounted killings, to drive most protesters …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/23/AR2009062302866.html

Iran Refuses to Annul Disputed Election Results
New York Times – United States
More Photos By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and SHARON OTTERMAN CAIRO — Iran’s government on Tuesday continued to aggressively crush dissent over the disputed …
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24iran.
html?bl&ex=1245902400&en=7d0fbb305022733a&ei=5087

Italian, Israeli Leaders Discuss Iran, Palestinian State
Voice of America – USA
By Sabina Castelfranco The situation in Iran and the prospects for a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli one dominated talks between Israeli Prime …
www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-23-voa57.cfm

Iran’s ‘Angel of Freedom’ Neda Soltan Vowed to Protest Against …
FOXNews – USA
AP A young woman named Neda Soltan is being embraced as a martyr in Iran after a video purportedly captured her killing. A young woman named Neda Soltan is …
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528441,00.html

On Iran and Health Care, Obama Careful to Keep His Options Open
Washington Post – United States
By Dan Balz President Obama used his press conference Tuesday to sharpen his rhetoric on Iran and vigorously defend the most controversial provision of his …
voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/23/on_iran
_and_health_obama_keeps.html?hpid=topnews

Iran expels British diplomats, refuses new vote – Yahoo! News
Iran expelled two British diplomats Tuesday after bitterly accusing Britain of meddling and spying. The government also dealt a fresh blow to the opposition …
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

Obama condemns Iran violence, singles out shooting of woman seen …
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
But reports from Iran show his own statements are being “mistranslated” there and spun to suggest that the US is encouraging rioters, Obama said,…
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-
obama-news-conference24-2009jun24,0,6463940.story

Iran denies envoy to London recalled
AFP
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — An Iranian foreign ministry source on Tuesday denied that the country’s ambassador to London had been recalled, amid tensions with …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article
/ALeqM5hk9mlCPSGHP6eLg9PKrA2iMRf24w

Obama news conference: He saw the bloody video from Iran
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
More than once, Obama said he was concerned about the crackdown by authorities on the protesters challenging Iran’s recent election results:“I think it’s …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/06/obama
-news-conference-he-saw-the-bloody-video-from-iran.html

Top Iran body rejects poll annulment demand: state TV
Reuters – USA
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s top legislative body has again ruled out any annulment of the June 12 presidential election, as demanded by two defeated…
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55M0OD20090623

Italy backs Netanyahu’s peace plans
The Associated Press
Both men also discussed Israel’s concerns about what many Western countries say are Iran’s nuclear arms ambitions. Italy is perhaps Israel’s greatest ally …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
5j5lNNaCeha9B9HSxwmZRuQpxxCrQD990J5G80

Iran to loom large at G8 ministers’ Afghan talks
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
By Phil Stewart and Roberto Landucci ROME (Reuters) – Events in Iran will cast a shadow over this week’s meeting in Italy of G8 foreign ministers that …
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40553020090623

‘Outraged’ Brown and Obama condemn Iran as election crisis worsens
Times Online – UK
Britain and the United States tonight launched their fiercest attacks yet against Iran’s diminished hardline regime, 11 days into a democratic crisis that …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/middle_east/article6564441.ece

Tweets From Iran Read ‘Round the World
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
… on Twitter to delay previously scheduled maintenance of its popular online service because it was being extensively used by demonstrators in Iran. …
www.usnews.com/articles/news/2009/06/22/
tweets-from-iran-read-round-the-world.html

UK and Iran order tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions
Reuters – USA
Iran accused the British diplomats of “activities incompatible with their diplomatic status,” Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spokesman said. …
www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Iran/idUSTRE55M5RX20090623

Iran’s Sophisticated Ability to Cyber Snoop
ABC News – USA
The Manchester, NH based company has been following the information flow out of Iran and sees the small spigot of information increasingly being closed off …
blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/06/
irans-sophisticated-ability-to-cyber-snoop.html

Relations between old adversaries Britain and Iran hit new low …
guardian.co.uk – UK
Troubled relations between Britain and Iran hit a new low today with the tit-for-tat expulsion of each other’s diplomats. But the move was hardly surprising …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/23/
iran-expulsion-diplomats-khamenei

Report: Iran Tries to Charge Slain Man’s Family $3000 to Cover …
FOXNews – USA
The elder Alipour eventually convinced morgue officials that he couldn’t afford the fee and that they should wave it due to his service in the Iran-Iraq war …
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528580,00.html

McCain Hits Obama On Iran Again, Joe Klein Tells Him “Be Quiet …
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Sen. John McCain continued to rap President Barack Obama for his measured reaction to the crisis in Iran, which McCain said was inadequate in its support for the protestors of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contested re-election.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/
mccain-hits-obama-on-iran_n_219407.html

Iran: 26 journalists confirmed arrested – Boing Boing
By Xeni Jardin
A crackdown against journalists and cyber-dissidents is continuing in Iran with both Iranian and foreign journalists caught in the eye of the post-election storm, Reporters Without Borders said. Among the latest arrests was that of a …
www.boingboing.net/2009/06/23/iran-26-journalists.html

democracyarsenal.org: Iran Bans Protesting Players
By Max Bergmann
The Guardian reports that four of the players that wore green arm bands in protest have been “retired” or banned for life. According to the pro-government newspaper Iran, four players – Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, …
www.democracyarsenal.org/2009/06/iran-bans-protesting-players.html

Truthdig – Ear to the Ground – Iran Election Watchdog Stands by …
By editor@truthdig.com
2009/06/23 – Iran’s Guardian Council has found “no major fraud or breach in the election” and will not annul the vote, a spokesman announced Tuesday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, meanwhile, jumped into the fray, calling on the …
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200906
23_iran_election_watchdog_stands_by_results/

Iran Updates – June 23 “ niacINsight
By NIAC
On Tuesday morning, from 9am all of us all over Iran will make our way towards the markets (bazaar). If they try to block us the market will shut down, and if they don’t then we will create such a swarm that the market will still close …
niacblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/iran-updates-june-23/

Neil Hrab: Iran’s ayatollahs strive to keep giddy minds busy …
By NP Editor
Here at Full Comment, you’ll find an eclectic mix of commentary on news, politics and pop culture — plus the occasional dig at a Star or Globe pundit who’s gone off the rails.
network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/
2009/06/23/neil-hrab-iran-s-ayatollahs-strive-to-keep-gi
ddy-minds-busy.aspx

Iran Crisis: Obama Says World Appalled | The Seferm Post
By Seferm Post
Iran Crisis – President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared the United States and the entire world “appalled and outraged” by Iran’s violent efforts to crush dissent, a clear toughening of his rhetoric as Republican critics at home pound …
www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2009/06/
iran-crisis-obama-says-world-appalled.html

Obama Assails Iran for Violent Response to Protests
New York Times – United States
“They are an obvious attempt to distract people from what is truly taking place within Iran’s borders,” he said. “This tired strategy of using tensions to …
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24webobama.html?hp

Iran Accuses UN Chief of Meddling in Election Dispute
Voice of America – USA
By VOA News Iran is accusing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of meddling in its affairs after he urged the Islamic state to stop its crackdown on…
www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-23-voa27.cfm

Israel PM salutes Iran protests, deplores violence
Reuters – USA
“I believe that the courage shown by the people of Iran in facing bullets in the streets for the sake of freedom is something that deserves the salute of …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLN829372

FOCUS: Iran Removes Oil Chief Torkan Amid Political Unrest
Wall Street Journal – USA
By Oliver Klaus DUBAI (Dow Jones)—Iran has unexpectedly fired one of its senior oil officials amid ongoing unrest on the streets of Tehran. …
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090623-708551.html

Iran accuses UN chief of meddling
BBC News – UK
Iran has accused United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon of “meddling”, after he called on Iran to respect the “will of its people” over a contested election. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8115232.stm

Israel PM salutes Iran protests, deplores violence
Reuters – USA
“I think we have to recognise that the greatest threat is the kind of aggressive and violent behaviour that we see coming from Iran,” Netanyahu told a news …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSRON004682

UK expels Iran diplomats in tit for tat protest row
Times Online – UK
Britain is to expel two Iranian diplomats as a tit-for-tat response after Iran today forced the same number of British diplomats to leave, Gordon Brown …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6563204.ece

Obama’s Iran policy is a bomb
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Discuss Article Here is the one immutable fact of Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda as it relates to Iran: It’s over. The rule book he came in with is as …
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-
goldberg23-2009jun23,1,7910405.column

Closing Arguments: Obama Ramps Up Rhetoric on Iran – Nightline’s …
By David Schoetz
I think the President is doing what is right about Iran. He should stay OUT of other countrie’s businesses… We’ve had past BAD experiences about presidents sticking their noses where they are not invited. Learn a lesson: MIND your OWN …
blogs.abcnews.com/nightlinedailyline/2009/06/
closing-arguments-obama-talking-tougher-on-iran.html

JURIST – Paper Chase: Iran forces arrest hundreds in post-election …
By Christian Ehret
Also Monday, Iran’s Guardian Council of the Constitution [official website, in Persian] spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei said that the number of votes in approximately 50 constituencies exceeded the number of eligible voters [Financial …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/06
/iran-forces-arrest-hundreds-in-post.php

Riehl World View: Showdown Iran: Election Stands As Rev Guard En-Route
By Dan
The Guardian Council has ruled that there were no significant election difficulties to warrant an annulment of the vote, the election will stand. The NYT’s reports the Obama administration claims to be strugglingfrom a lack of …
www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/06/
showdown-iran-election-stands-as-rev-guard-enroute.html

Laura Secor on Iran’s Protest Vote – The Washington Note
By katcher@newamerica.net
But during those years the rest of his Islamic Left faction, including Saeed Hajjarian, made one of the most dramatic turnabouts in Iran’s political history. It abandoned its hard-line commitments in favor of an agenda of liberalization …
www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/laura_secor_on/

Iran election annulment ruled out
BBC News – UK
Iran’s legislative body, the Guardian Council, has said there were no major polling irregularities in the 12 June election and ruled out an annulment.…
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8114195.stm

Oil Drops as Equities Decline on Concern Over Deeper Recession
Bloomberg – USA
Oil analysts also cited the absence of an immediate impact from continuing civil unrest in Iran, the second-largest producer in the Organization of…
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=atQSpApxV250

Iran elections: Guardian council says ‘no fraud or breach’ in poll
guardian.co.uk – UK
Iran’s state television today reported that the country’s top electoral authority has ruled out annulling the results of the disputed 12 June election, …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/23/iran-guardian-council-results

Riot police use tear gas to halt protest in Iran – Yahoo! News
Riot police cracked down anew on demonstrators in Iran’s capital on Monday hours after the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened to crush any further…
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

The US must be a quiet ally to Iran’s protesters
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
In the case of Iran, President Obama has rightly determined that it is in the US interest to speak up for the opposition forces’ fundamental rights to …
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials
/la-ed-iran23-2009jun23,0,6483575.story

Tense Iran braces for protests as world alarm grows
AFP
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran was bracing for pro-government student protests against the British embassy in Tehran as the world voiced increasing alarm at the …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A
LeqM5jUKVW6xjp7sSIfZ0JpjTb_DMxa1A

Dispute flares over which tech firms are helping Iran eavesdrop
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
by Declan McCullagh A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia Corp., the two large European technology firms, is denying reports that Iran uses its …
news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10270760-38.html

Top Clerical Council in Iran Rejects Plea to Annul Vote
New York Times – United States
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and ALAN COWELL CAIRO — Iran’s Guardian Council, the senior clerical body charged with certifying the disputed presidential election, …
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/
middleeast/24iran.html?ref=world

McCain’s Iran Neda speech raises domestic political stakes for Obama
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Here’s anew video involving the violent events in Iran and the politics they are now forcing within the United States. The video is from C-SPAN of Arizona …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/
06/john-mccain-neda-iran-protests.html

An Overlooked Force in Iran
Washington Post – United States
I do know, however, that there is a connection between the violence in Iran over the past week and the women’s rights movement that has slowly gained…
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article
/2009/06/22/AR2009062202387.html

End Iran violence, UN chief urges
BBC News – UK
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to arrests and the threat and use of violence by authorities in Iran.…
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8114085.stm

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
This is an archive of my Iran live-blogging from Monday, June 22. For the latest updates, click here.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22
/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_219299.html

Before and After Shots of Google’s Iran Maps – O’Reilly Radar
By Brady Forrest
These can be for economic reasons as is the case for Black Rock City (the temporary 40000 person home for Burning Man). Or for political reasons as is the case for Iran and countries such as China. As I mentioned the other…
radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/before-and-after-shots-of-goog.html

YouTube Blog
By rss@youtube.com
Last week, we highlighted several videos uploaded straight off the streets of Iran, as protests raged and the Iranian police force, the Basij, cracked down. And if the graphic footage that was uploaded to YouTube by Iranian citizens …
www.youtube.com/blog?entry=1AtXivH-W0U

A Royal ‘We Shall Overcome’ for Iran
Washington Post – United States
By Dana Milbank It seems somewhat unlikely that a resident of Potomac will be the next ruler of Iran. But Reza Pahlavi, son of the shah and the country’s …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/22/AR2009062202625.html

Crude Oil Falls on World Bank Forecast for a Deeper Recession
Bloomberg – USA
Unrest continued in Tehran over the results of elections in Iran, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ second- largest producer.…
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=aKzRnqEkRly0

Iran Unrest Reveals Split In US on Role Abroad
Washington Post – United States
By Scott Wilson Iran’s post-election tumult has exposed the sharply divergent ways in which the Obama administration and its Republican opponents view the …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/22/AR2009062203026.html

Iran: where did all the votes come from?
BBC News – UK
By Paul Reynolds A statistical analysis has now been published to try to support the claim that the opposition in Iran is right to question the declared …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8113885.stm

Iran: Crackdown on Protesters Over Weekend. What Should Obama Do?
Washington Post – United States
Iran says at least 17 protesters have been killed in a week of unrest so far after the electoral council declared hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
discussion/2009/06/22/DI2009062200847.html

Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election
New York Times – United States
To supplement reporting by New York Times journalists inside Iran on Monday, The Lede will continue to track the aftermath of Iran’s disputed presidential …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/latest-
updates-on-irans-disputed-election-3/?apage=5

US Scrambles for Information on Iran
New York Times – United States
Also, the State Department has a small outpost in Dubai, the Iran Regional Presence Office, where diplomats monitor Iranian state television and talk to …
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/
middleeast/23diplo.html?ref=world

Iran authorities acknowledge voting irregularities
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered the protesters to halt their marches and ridiculed the vote-fraud allegations as he stood strongly …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/
la-fg-iran23-2009jun23,0,4158764.story

Iran: More on the life and death of Neda Agha-Soltan – Boing Boing
By Xeni Jardin
The relative proceeded to describe a video, airing on exile television channels that are jammed in Iran, in which a young woman is shown bleeding to death as her companion calls out, “Neda! Neda!” A dark premonition swept over Golshad, …
www.boingboing.net/2009/06/22/iran-more-on-the-lif.html

Truthdig – Reports – Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away
By editor@truthdig.com
2009/06/22 – Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. We gave to the Iranian people the corrupt regime of the shah and his savage secret police and the primitive clerics that rose out of …
www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090622_
iran_had_a_democracy_before_we_took_it_away/

PR Quote Of The Day: Facilitating Iran’s Censorship – The Atlantic …
A joint venture between Nokia and Siemens sold technology to Iran that’s giving the government the power to block and censor Internet communications, the Wall Street Journal reports. It falls to poor Nokia-Siemens spokesman Ben Roome to …
politics.theatlantic.com/2009/06/pr_quote
_of_the_day_facilitating_irans_censorship.php

Iran Updates – June 22 niacINsight
By David Elliott
America’s moral authority in Iran is all but non-existent. To the idea that the US should jump into the Tehran fray and help bring democracy to Iran, many Iranians would roll their eyes and say: “We had a democracy here until you came …
niacblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/iran-updates-june-22/

Wealth of Nations : Iran’s bumbling ‘China model’
By Michael Hirsh
Now that they’ve had their bloody crackdown, the next step for Iran’s mullahs is economic reform. That, after all, is the “China model” they’ve been talking about in Tehran for years. If we give the people a taste of the good life, …
blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive
/2009/06/22/iran-s-bumbling-china-model.aspx

Report: Global Proxy Effort for Iran is Faltering
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
Network analysts Renesys reported this morning that the global effort to supply proxy internet servers for Iranians to route around government control and communicate with the outside world …
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_
global_proxy_effort_for_iran_is_faltering.php

Who Is In the Streets of Iran? — Politics Daily
By Parisa Saranj
I pick up the phone and dial my friend. I call her every day and I am embarrassed that she will think I am overreacting. She.
www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/22/who-is-in-the-streets-of-iran/

EU urged to ‘strengthen’ condemnation of Iran | Policies | Justice …
eu urged to ‘strengthen’ condemnation of iran incoming swedish presidency believes killing of more protesters obliges eu to send stronger message.
www.europeanvoice.com/article/2009/06/eu-
urged-to-strengthen-condemnation-of-iran/65266.aspx

Iran in China – James Fallows
And right now — Monday evening, June 22, China time — when Iran’s fate is dominant news in much of the world, it’s a second- or third-tier item in the official Chinese media. The current front page of People Daily (in Chinese, …
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/iran_in_china.php

Netanyahu Heads to Europe With Settlements, Iran on His Agenda
Bloomberg – USA
Netanyahu’s trip to Europe also comes amid continued unrest in Iran. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have opposed the re- election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arSJcS_f29cA

Web Video Makes an Iranian Woman’s Death a Symbol of Iran’s Crisis
New York Times – United States
The bloody video of her death on Saturday —circulated in Iran and around the world — has made Ms. Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old whom her relatives said was …
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/
middleeast/23neda.html?ref=global-home

Journalist jailed in Iran gets a book deal
msnbc.com – USA
Thibault Camus / AP AP AP NEW YORK – A journalist jailed for four months in Iran on charges of espionage has a book deal. Iranian-American Roxana Saberi, …
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31495345/ns/today_books-today_book_news/

Oil ends at two week low
CNNMoney.com – USA
The retreat comes despite ongoing political unrest in Iran, militant attacks on oil installations in Nigeria and escalating tensions with North Korea. …
money.cnn.com/2009/06/22/markets/oil/?postversion=2009062215