Iran

Follow what's happening in Iran on Twitter

Jessi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:38:35 -0700

As 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

crockford — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:50:36 -0700

From 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.

A Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy

cdfierro — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:27:57 -0700

By Ramzy Baroud

What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico? Putting the Iran Crisis in Context

cdfierro — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:47:33 -0700

Published on Friday, April 6, 2007 by TomDispatch.com
by Noam Chomsky