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Follow what's happening in Iran on Twitter
Posted June 16th, 2009 by JessiAs Iranian activists protest the election results (current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declaring reelection victory over opponent and former Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi - and just one day after the election instead of the customary three), you can follow up-to-the-minute reports on Twitter from the Tehran Bureau:
http://twitter.com/tehranbureau
You can also check out their blog:
http://tehranbureau.com/
Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is Flawed
Posted June 14th, 2009 by crockfordFrom FiveThirtyEight.com:
Like most Americans, there are few things I would like to see more than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hateful President, to be voted out of office. Elections in thuggish, authoritarian states like Iran need be treated with the utmost skepticism and scrutiny. I can't say I have any real degree of confidence in the official results, which showed Ahmadinejad winning with some 62 percent of the vote.
What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico? Putting the Iran Crisis in Context
Posted April 9th, 2007 by cdfierroPublished on Friday, April 6, 2007 by TomDispatch.com
by Noam Chomsky