Opposition leader’s aide banned from leaving Iran
Hindu – Chennai,India
Iran’s state TV says that an aide to Opposition Leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been prevented from leaving Iran for Britain. The report identifies the aide …
www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200906261007.htm

I’m under Iran regime threat: Mir Hossein Mousavi
The Australian – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Defying an international outcry over the post-election unrest gripping Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told US President Barack Obama to stop meddling …
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25692539-2703,00.html

Iran Crackdown Secures Streets But Internal Splits Remain
Voice of America – USA
But, analysts say the protests have opened fissures in the ranks of Iran’s ruling elite. After Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared incumbent …
www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-25-voa51.cfm

Obama talks about Iran; healthcare
Examiner.com – USA
In a White House press conference today, President Barack Obama answered questions ranging from his newly inked tobacco bill to the violence in Iran. …
www.examiner.com/x-3630-Orlando-Obama-Administration-
Examiner~y2009m6d23-Obama-talks-about-Iran-healthcare

Police use teargas and fire weapons as Iran protests flare again
guardian.co.uk – UK
The Revolutionary Guard – Iran’s most powerful military force – ordered demonstrators to “end the sabotage and rioting activities” and said their resistance …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/
22/iran-protests-revolutionary-guard

Iran at Center of Discussion for G8 Foreign Ministers
Voice of America – USA
But events in Iran are likely to overshadow their talks and foreign ministers appear likely to seek consensus on a joint condemnation of Iran’s crackdown on …
www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-25-voa35.cfm

Local Iran native: Country doesn’t need full-scale revolution
Williamsport Sun-Gazette – Williamsport,PA,USA
However, Madresehee, who came to the United States just before the outbreak of the 1979 revolution, said the current political unrest in Iran is not about …
www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/528551.html?nav=5011

Don’t give regime excuse
Salt Lake Tribune – United States
As an Iranian-American who is concerned about the outcome of the events that are unfolding in Iran, I urge Sen. John mccain and others to refrain from …
www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_12690407

Gov’t sees ‘crisis of credibility’ in Iran
AFP
LONDON (AFP) — Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday there is a“crisis of credibility” between Iran’s government and its people, lamenting the …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5iyFRdmqXvc6rvcIpaWcVHc8b9K9A

IRAN: BBC maps the Tehran protests
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
The BBC has posted an interactive map of the protests that broke out in the Iranian capital after a disputed presidential election. …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/
2009/06/iran-bbc-maps-the-tehran-protests.html

Second guessing Twitter’s effect on post-election Iran | csmonitor.com
Innovation: The Christian Science Monitor\’s innovation section.
features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/25/
second-guessing-twitters-effect-on-post-election-iran/

Iran expected to dominate G8 meeting in Italy | Home Other …
TRIESTE (AP) — Foreign ministers of Group of Eight countries sought to find a common position on Iran’s violent crackdown on protesters as they opened a meeting in this northeastern Italian city Thursday.
www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=
481247&publicationSubCategoryId=200

ENVIRONMENTAL REPUBLICAN: Iran’s Tiananmen Square
By Scott
Now With 40% Fewer Grammatical Errors. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Iran’s Tiananmen Square · Sphere: Related Content. From bad to horrible. More Chip Bok cartoons here. Posted by Scott at 6:44 AM. Labels: Iran, Mideast, Protests …
environmentalrepublican.blogspot.com/
2009/06/irans-tiananmen-square.html

Congress Eyes New Measures Against Iran, North Korea — News from …
By Jason Ditz
Members of Congress are expressing growing impatience with the Obama Administration’s diplomatic efforts, and are looking to move unilaterally to impose harsh new sanctions against the governments of Iran and North Korea. …
news.antiwar.com/2009/06/25/congress-
eyes-new-measures-against-iran-north-korea/

THINK THE VIOLENCE IN IRAN CAN’T HAPPEN HERE? | Angry White Dude
By ANGRY WHITE DUDE
The Iranian people had the guts to take to the streets and many were beaten, killed or imprisoned.
angrywhitedude.com/?p=1921

Jon Slattery: RWB:Foreign media denigrated in Iran
By Jon Slattery
RWB:Foreign media denigrated in Iran. Press freedom campaign group Reporters Without Borders today condemned a parade of Iranian demonstrators being shown on a loop on state-run TV confessing to having protested at the behest of foreign …
jonslattery.blogspot.com/2009/06/
rwbforeign-media-denigrated-in-iran.html

Habitat apologises for Iran tweets | ElectricPig.co.uk
By Greg Strachan
Furniture retailer Habitat has offered an apology after adverts for the store turned up in trending Twitter topics such as ‘Iran’ and ‘Mousavi’. One.
www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/06/25/
habitat-apologises-for-iran-tweets/

Slain woman’s story said much about life in Iran
Kansas City Star – MO,USA
Nearly a quarter of Iranians in their 20s are unemployed, and only 15 percent of Iran’s workforce consists of women. She could take music lessons but was …
www.kansascity.com/277/story/1282694.html

Oil Markets Stay Calm Despite Political Unrest in Iran
Washington Post – United States
With excess production capacity and oil inventories at record highs, Iran’s domestic unrest hasn’t affected the price of crude oil. …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06
/25/AR2009062504257.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Italian FM: G8 foreign ministers to take tough stance on Iran
Xinhua – China
ROME, June 25 (Xinhua) — The upcoming Group of Eight foreign ministers meeting will take a strong stance against Iran for its alleged crackdown on election …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/26/content_11602664.htm

IRAN: LA dedicates intersection to Iranian American philanthropist
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
For many of those attending, the event offered a brief respite from days of worry about family and friends in Iran, which has been rocked by the worst…
latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/06/iran-la-
dedicates-an-intersection-to-iranian-american-ezat-delijani.html

Arab Activists Watch Iran And Wonder: ‘Why Not Us?’
Washington Post – United States
Across the Arab world, Iran’s massive opposition protests have triggered a wave of soul-searching and conflicting emotions. Many question why their own …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504415.html

Ahmadinejad Reacts, Asks Obama To Stop Interfering In Iran’s …
RTT News – Williamsville,NY,USA
Earlier, Iran had expelled two British diplomats from the country, accusing them of involvement “in activities incompatible with their status. …
www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=989449

Obama Condemns Iran Goverment’s ‘Unjust Actions’
Washington Post – United States
First, I’d like to say a few words about the situation in Iran. The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the …
voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/23/
obama_condemns_iran_goverments.html?wprss=44

Congress grows impatient on Iran, N. Korea, vows action
Christian Science Monitor – USA
But Iran’s recent crackdown on protesters disputing the June 12 presidential election has galvanized many in Congress, especially Republicans critical of …
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0626/p02s01-usfp.html

IRAN: Britain expels two Iranian diplomats
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
“Iran yesterday took the unjustified step of expelling two British diplomats over allegations which are absolutely without foundation,” Brown is quoted as …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/06/
iran-britain-expels-two-iranian-diplomats.html

Hezbollah: Iran protests aim to destabilize gov’t
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
Hezbollah rejects the post election violence in Iran as a simple protest against the results of the poll, saying it has been orchestrated to destabilize the …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99051&sectionid=351020101

Arab countries: Is Iran’s unrest an opportunity or a threat?
Christian Science Monitor – USA
If the mass protests in Iran succeed in bringing about change, it could produce a better neighbor – but also set a dangerous precedent for oppressive …
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0625/p06s01-wome.html

Moussavi maintains defiant stance
CNN – USA
Abolfazl Fateh “has been banned [from leaving Iran] because of [his role in] recent developments and his efforts to arrange for the illegal gathering of …
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.election/

Iranian envoy: CIA involved in Neda’s shooting?
CNN – USA
“Naturally, they would like to see blood spilled in these demonstrations, so that they can use it against the Islamic Republic of Iran. …
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.ambassador/

Fifa asks Tehran to explain why footballers were ‘retired’
Times Online – UK
World football’s governing body has asked Iran to explain reports that it has “retired” members of its national team for wearing green opposition wristbands …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/middle_east/article6579251.ece

Iran ambassador: Protesters represent a minority
CNN International – USA
(CNN) — The anti-government protesters who have streamed into streets across Iran to protest this month’s presidential elections as rigged represent a …
edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.ambassador/

Stone oppression
Los Angeles Independent – Los Angeles,CA,USA
By ARIN MIKAILIAN, Staff Writer In Iran, where women’s rights are already suppressed, it is the worst punishment they can face: being pummeled to death by …
www.laindependent.com/entertainment/49117972.html

Mir-Hossein Mousavi slams Iran’s leaders
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
The former prime minister turned artist and scholar accused Iran’s supreme leader of not acting in the interests of the country and said Iran had suffered a …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-
fg-iran-mousavi26-2009jun26,0,2461818.story

Doesn’t the unrest in Iran really feel like tradition against …
Examiner.com – USA
And while the EU, which has extensive trade ties with Iran, have thus far been reluctant to use economic leverage over the election protests. …
www.examiner.com/x-5249-SF-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009
m6d25-Doesnt-the-unrest-in-Iran-really-feel-like-tradition
-against-modernity

Who was Neda? Slain woman an unlikely martyr
CNN – USA
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — The young woman who last weekend emerged as a powerful symbol of opposition to the Iranian government embraced life in many ways, …
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.neda.profile/

‘Blood everywhere’ in fresh Iran crackdown
ABC Online – Australia
(AFP: Behrouz Mehri) There are reports of another brutal crackdown in Iran, with websites, internet bloggers and eyewitnesses all talking of a bloodbath in …
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/25/2607797.htm

The nature of the beast: Iran’s thug leaders, not Obama, are to …
New York Daily News – New York,NY,USA
And now, most of the globe also knows that the supreme leader and the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran are thugs whose legitimacy diminishes with …
www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/06/25/2009-06-25_the_nature
_of_the_beast_irans_thug_leaders_not_obama_are_to_blame_
for_quashing_d.html

Helena Cobban: US, Syria, Iran, Hamas
TPMCafé – New York,NY,USA
Observes a White House official: “Iran’s allies in the region have to be wondering, ‘Why should we hitch our wagon to their starship?’ “ It has, of course, …
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009
/06/25/us_syria_iran_hamas/?ref=c3

US toughens stand; rescinds July 4 invites for Iran’s diplomats
Hindustan Times – India
The step was a part of the Obama Administration’s outreach efforts towards Iran. However, with opposition and protest movement in Iran — after the results …
www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID=dc5cbe03-60bc
-4ecb-b848-e8c80124c3ea&SectionName=HomePage

Obama right to keep US out of Iran’s political process
Kansas City Star – MO,USA
President Barack Obama spoke firmly Tuesday about Iran’s crackdown on protesters, hinting that the repressive regime risks consequences by not heeding …
www.kansascity.com/340/story/1271078.html

Demonstrations planned to protest Islamic regime and killings in Iran
Examiner.com – USA
As outrage continues to escalate over the killings and brutality that have ensued on the streets of Iran, Iranian officials have ordered a blackout of news. …
www.examiner.com/x-3035-Everyday-People-Examiner~
y2009m6d24-Demonstrations-planned-to-protest-Islamic
-regime-and-killings-in-Iran

Iran Gets Another Chance to Face Its Demons
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
One of Iran’s demons is the way it treats women. Another is the country’s lack of democracy. A third is its domination by “clerics” (religious men).…
seekingalpha.com/instablog/399221-graham-and-dodd-
investor/9990-iran-gets-another-chance-to-face-its-demons

Twitter ad link to Iran slammed
Mirror.co.uk – London,UK
By Matt Blake 25/06/2009 The firm attached Iranrelated keywords, called hashtags, including “Iran” and “Mousavi” to Twitter messages so people searching for …
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/06/25/twitter
-ad-link-to-iran-slammed-115875-21469553/

Why China’s Leaders Need to Worry About Recent Events in Iran …
Huffington Post – New York,NY,USA
As Iran has its Tianenman moment, no other government is watching events there with more anxiety than China—and with good reason. Both Iran and China are …
www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-scheer
/why-chinas-leaders-need-t_b_220511.html

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive …
By CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
It amazes me how the repubs are so called “outraged” by all that is going on in Iran, but when Katrina hit and our own people was suffering and dying by the droves, you could barely hear anything from the republicans. …
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/
25/senators-to-introduce-iran-legislation/

Why Britain is still Iran’s enemy number one | FP Passport
By Joshua Keating
“Death to America” and “death to Israel” chants may be a widespread feature of politics in the Middle East, but Iran’s leaders seem unique in the degree to which they detest the British. This week Ayatollah Khamenei described Britain as …
blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/25/
why_britain_is_still_irans_enemy_number_one

Events in Iran Prove Bradbury Wrong – CIO.com – Business …
By Johna Till Johnson
Here’s one of the more ironic juxtaposition of events in recent memory: Last week, famed science-fiction author (and anti-censorship advocate) Ray Bradbury came out against the Internet — just as the ‘Net’s ability to evade censorship …
www.cio.com/article/495908/Events_in_Iran_Prove_Bradbury_Wrong

A Blog For All: Inauguration Day, Iran Style
By lawhawk
The US and the rest of the world, particularly the British and Israelis are bogeymen for Ahmadinejad and his cronies to pull out when the going gets tough and their designs to turn the Islamic Republic of Iran into the Islamic State …
lawhawk.blogspot.com/2009/06/inauguration-day-iran-style.html

STREAMING LIVE TOMORROW: Former UK Ambassador to Iran Richard …
By clemons@newamerica.net
(This picture from November 2004 depicts then UK Ambassador to Iran Sir Richard Dalton and Iran’s then top nuclear negotiator Hasan Howhani). During my recent trip to London where I spoke at a forum organized by the Royal United …
www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/streaming_live_42/

Iran Updates – June 25 “ niacINsight
By David Elliott
The rancorous dispute over Iran’s presidential election could turn into a win-win for Arab leaders aligned with Washington who in the past have complained bitterly that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was destabilizing the region and …
niacblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/iran-updates-june-25/

Iran’s Mousavi vows to fight “major” vote rigging
Reuters – USA
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Thursday he was determined to continue fighting against “major” presidential election …
www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Iran/idUSTRE55O27D20090625

What’s So Silly about a Measured Response on Iran? [Paul Saunders]
National Review Online Blogs – New York,NY,USA
Michael Ledeen thinks that my arguments for avoiding dangerous but ineffective US involvement in Iran are “silly.” I guess if I had to choose one word to …
corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2I5N2I4
ODAwODU1M2U5NTFlZmI2NDRmYmZjODg2MDY=

When caution becomes abdication
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark,NJ,USA
It was important for the world — and for Iran’s leaders — to see that events in Iran were being driven by the righteous outrage of Iran’s people and not …
www.nj.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2009/
06/when_caution_becomes_abdicatio.html

When Iran will be dressing for a revolution
Livemint – Delhi,Delhi,India
There’s a youtube video of commuters in a subway in Iran, walking down the stairs to a platform, where they cluster, waiting for a train and then, …
www.livemint.com/2009/06/25202457/
When-Iran-will-be-dressing-for.html?h=B

Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran
Empire Report – Santa Rosa,CA,USA
The proud people of Iran, with their storied history, are in charge of this uprising. When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez …
empirereport.org/reports/20090625-full-spectrum-idiocy

AP Top News at 6:21 am EDT
The Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Iran says it is considering downgrading ties with Britain after days of rising tension over criticism of Iran’s disputed presidential election. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
5g8-DEMtAE9q4i4ySQ0eV_qZefmRQD990VS4O0

UAE says opposes interference in Iran
Reuters – USA
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates, a Gulf energy producer, said Monday that instability in Iran was not in the region’s best interests and…
www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSTRE55L1NS20090622