Folks, here's Nico Pitney's outstanding liveblogging coverage of the extraordinary events unfolding in Iran at the Huffington Post, including news reports, video coming in via YouTube from Tehran, photos, tweets, emails, and satellite communications.
At this stage, the government appears trying to put a lid on widespread street protests by shutting down the country's electricity grid and placing opposition leaders under house arrest.
Remarkable.
UPDATE:
Andrew Sullivan's coverage.
The Liberal blog Daily Kos aggregates coverage in its "Crisis in Iran Mothership."
The regime appears to be blocking Twitter and other social networks, and hunting down those with satellite phones. Not really a trait common to legitimately elected governments.
Ahmedinejad is claiming that the West is waging psychological warfare against Iran.
Perhaps. Or perhaps people everywhere who love freedom honestly think you're an asshole, and would like to see the Iranian people free from the Mullahs' tyranny.
UPDATE 102 am pst:
Pitney reports at HuffPo link, above, that there may be a move afoot to depose Khamenei -- that the election results may have represented a military coup -- and that this is the beginning of civil war.
Fresh pics here, at Tehran Live.
Oddly, Al Jazeera English seems to be downplaying these events. They are not buying the vote fraud story, and are painting the protests as something having to do with Northern Tehran hipsters -- and reporting that concerns about the legitimacy of the results stem from the U.S., Britain, and Canada ... only.
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"Oddly, Al Jazeera English seems to be downplaying these events. They are not buying the vote fraud story, and are painting the protests as something having to do with Northern Tehran hipsters -- and reporting that concerns about the legitimacy of the results stem from the U.S., Britain, and Canada ... only. "
Newsweek had an article that proposed Ahmadinejad won the election, but fraud was used to make his victory a bigger majority in the hopes of depicting Iran as having unity behind Ahmadinejad. The real lesson to take from all these protests is that a large part of Iran aren't accepting the election results even after the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has used his authority to back Ahmadinejad and declare him the winner. If the Supreme Leader no longer holds sway over the people, then they are getting closer to democracy despite this setback of a rigged election.
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