Tuesday June 30
The ayatollah’s curse: Eric Margolis, Huffington Post
C;erics pose little threat to Khamenei: Meir Javedanfar, Guardian
Opposition down but hardly out: Scott Macleod, Time
The uprising in Iran will live: Ghassan Michel Rubeiz, Global Arab Network
Iran’s leaders love their Western plots: Christopher Hitchens, Iran Press Watch
How Iran is filtering out dissent: Ian Black, Guardian
Obama’s obsolete Iran policy: Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Tehran’s worst nightmare: Terry Glavin, National Post
How cigarettes light up Islamic jihad worldwide: Kate Willson, Spiro News
Iran will never be the same: Martin Schram, Pocono Record
Where are all the usual suspects?: Seth J Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
The real struggle in Iran and implications for US dialogue: George Friedman, Stratfor
Iran’s sons and daughters will win: Fawaz A Gerges, cnn.com
Fight for Iran’s future is far from over: Amir Taheri, timesonline.co.uk
Monday June 29
Rogue regime inches to precipice: Arnaud de Borchgrave, Washington Times
West betrays Iranian protest movement: Matthias Kuntzel, EuropeNews
Feminist waves in the Iranian green tsunami?: Golbarg Bashi, Tehran Bureau
Iranians learn to stand on their own: Trudy Rubin, Post-Bulletin
Selling toothpaste to Tehran: Martha C White, thebigmoney.com
Iranian prince – My moment will come: Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Media Line
Was the election stolen? Does it matter?: Mark Weisbrot, Huffington Post
Saudi media take the lead against Iran’s regime: David Pollock and Mohammad Yaghi, The Cutting Edge
Ahmadinejad, privatisation and a bus driver who said no: Billy Wharton, Dissident Voice
Unveiling the revolution: Tracy Clark-Flory, salon.com
I could have settled for Michael Jackson: M E Dabiri, Tehran Bureau
Obama’s strategies failing in Iran: Mark LeVine, Al Jazeera
Give Bush credit on Iran: Abe Greenwald, Commentary Magazine
Gulf needs Iran to figure itself out: Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Maktoob
Beheshti’s ghost: Tehran Bureau
Persian station in Britain rattles Iran: John F Burns, NYT
Journalism rules bent in news coverage from Iran: Brian Stelter, NYT
Ramifications of the election: Ayesha Ijaz Khan, thenews.com
Millionaire mullahs (from 2003): Paul Klebnikov, iranian.com
Democracy as usual in Iran: Ali Ettefagh, PostGlobal
No velvet revolution for Iran: Fareed Zakaria, PostGlobal
Iran’s mullahs threaten the world: Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press
Mullahs and the Tiananmem option: Ed Timperlake, American Thinker
The case for Iran – fighting for freedom: Pamela Geller, American Thinker
Is Iran the missing link in evolution of a global Middle East?: Bahman Dousti, bionet.org
Islamic revival tests Azerbaijan’s tolerance: AFP
Bureau Tehran, live from Massachusetts: Tovia Smith, Inside of Iran
What is going on in the silence of Evin prison?: Reporters Without Borders, Inside of Iran
Has the regime been weakened?: Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, Al Arabiya
From Pakistan Daily
The CIA, Mossad and the new destabilisation of Iran: link
Between Tel Aviv and Tehran: link
Iran and the women’s rights Expert: link
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Sunday June 28
Battle shifts to the heart of power: Peter Beaumont, Observer
It’s hard for Westerners to believe Ahmadinejad won: Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Media Line
Ahmadinejad regime plots purge after protests: Marie Colvin, The Sunday Times
The CIA and the Iranian experiment: Thierry Meyssan, globalresearch.ca
Iran’s politics is all about survival: Albert R Hunt, NYT
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Saturday June 27
The Iranian chess board as seen by Team Obama: Laura Rozen, Foreign Policy
War of the ayatollahs: Hana H, tehranbureau.com
The axis of dictators: Ian Masters, Huffington Post
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Friday June 26
The end of the beginning: Trita Parsi, Reza Aslan, Foreign Policy
Iran and the Syrian gambit: Howard Schweber, Huffington Post
Stay out of Iran’s evolutionary process: Phil Giraldi, lewrockwell.com
Secret voices of the new Iran: John Simpson, BBC
Obama, the Neocons and Iran: Robert McFarlane, Wall Street Journal
World leaders seek new strategy: Timothy Heritage, Reuters
Genocide or massacre, US repeating mistakes of the past: Frank Salvato, Family Security Matters
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Thursday June 25
Is the dream already over?: Economist
Will Iran be Obama’s Iraq?: Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Sayed Mohammad Marandi, politico.com
Crisis in Iran – it’s the economy stupid!: John Defterios, Khaleej Times
Who wins if Iran loses?: Aijaz Zaka Syed, Khaleej Times
We must stand with liberty, this time in Tehran: Mark Perry, The Daily Star Lebanon
Will Moussavi choose to be the next Yeltsin?: Charles Krauthammer, rocnow.com
Iran’s two-sided rule – turban and helmet: Brian Murphy, AP
Tragic pitfall of Iranian citizen journalism: Bob Ostertag, Huffington Post
Confessions, arrests and a campaign against the media: newswire.ca
Arab states aligned with US savour turmoil: Michael Slackman, NYT
Ahmadinejad reaps benefits of stacking agencies with allies: Neil MacFarquhar, NYT
West must engage Iran over their differences: Michael Axworthy, The Independent
Why I don’t trust corporate media on Iran: Linda Milazzo, AlterNet
Iran’s struggle, and ours: Robert D Kaplan, Zaman of Turkey
The axis of dictators: Ian Masters, Huffington Post
Second-guessing Twitter’s effect: Matthew S haer, Christian Science Monitor
The abduction: Michelle May, tehranbureau.com
The assembly of experts: tehranbureau.com
Authorities to continue crackdown in the courts: Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Financial Times
Larijani faction emerges as third force: Kamel Nazer Yasin, eurasianet.org
A deal to save Iran?: Reza Aslan, The Daily Beast
A test for Khamenei: Robin Wright, Time
In Afghanistan Iranian truck drivers dispute election: Philip Smucker, Idaho Statesman
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Wednesday June 24
Moussavi – man who shook Tehran: Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, Al Arabiya
Leader’s son seen as power broker: Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
The show must go on: Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Policy
The age of Ahmadinejad: Mohammad Memarian, Midaest Youth
Long on rhetoric, short on memory: Jim Miles, Axis of Logic
Disunity will damage but not destroy Iran: Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
How BBC gave heart to the uprising: Jerome Taylor, The Independent
Hell hath no fury: Liora Hendelman-Baavur, Jerusalem Post
Experts disagree on future of demonstrations: Benjamin Joffe-Walt, Jerusalem Post
Sleeping Russia opening eyes on Middle East: Qazi Hussain Asgha, Pakistan Observer
Iran’s trajectory: Paul Rahe, Power Line
Two who played a key role: Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Enquirer
The diaspora must join the fight: Haleh Afshar, Guardian
US intervention in Iran: Terry Lacey, Palestinian Chronicle
Iran’s shattered myth: Daily Kos
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Tuesday June 23
Obama and Iran
Analysis – Iranian foil or silent accomplice?: Ron Fournier, AP
Did Obama change position?: Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic
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Has US played role in fomenting unrest?: Jeremy R Hammond, Foreign Policy Journal
Symbols aren’t enough to win: Robert Fisk, Independent
State television becomes focus of anger: Azadeh Moaveni, Time
How to report when you are banned: Nahid Siamdoust, Time
Iran’s crisis posing problem for its Mideast allies: Andrew Lee Butters, Time
Obama’s Persian tutorial: Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal
The Iranian revolution and the election test: George Friedman, Stratfor Global Intelligence
The end of the beginning: Roger Cohen, NYT
Moussavi was the butcher of Beirut: Jeff Stein, CQpolitics
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Monday June 22
Fight between classes of the political elite: Michael Slackman, NYT
Do Iran’s actions justify Western media coverage?: Sara Khorshid, Al Arabiya
Iran has changed: Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, Al Arabiya
Both sides seek to carry Islam’s banner: Neil MacFarquhar, NYT
Iran had a democracy before we took it away: Chris Hedges, truthdig.com
Iran’s children of tomorrow: Roger Cohen, NYT
Dealing with Iran gets harder: Morton Kondracke, MetroWest Daily News
Genuine protests or US plan to destabilise Iran?: Pravda
‘I grab a brick and I throw’: Guardian
The limits of people power: Daniel W Drezner, foreignpolicy.com
Letter from Tehran: Payvand Iran News
What has Khamenei got against Britain?: Boris Johnson, The Telegraph
Magic numbers: Ali Ansari, The Guardian
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Sunday June 21
Marsha B Cohen, tehranbureau.com: Larijani, between Khamenei and Kant
Yaseman Baji, ipsnews.net: day of confrontation and clarity
Robert Fisk, Independent: Khamenei is fighting for his own position
Michael Gerson, Washington Post: Realism on Iran? It’s called freedom
John O’Sullivan, nationalreview.com: the Iranian revolt
Gregory Djerejian in The Belgravia Despatch: Where is this place … ?
Informed comment: does the state have the upper hand?
From Al Arabiya
— Tariq Alhomayed: supreme leader’s fatal mistake
— Rochelle Terman: demise of Iranian apathy
— Tony Karon: Khamanei and the Mugabe option
Time: what the world didn’t see in Iran
Amir Taheri in The Sunday Times: Iran’s dictator gives up pretence of democracy
Andrew Sullivan, Sunday Times: Twitter ripped the veil off ‘the other’
Peter Beaumont in the Observer: Childish urge to split the world
Ali Ansari in the Observer: when the clerics act it will be crucial
Sir Richard Dalton in The Sunday Telegraph: democracy will have its day
Hadi Ghaemi on Middle East Online: No ‘Tehran Tiananmen’
Daily Kos: Khamenei and Henry VIII – two studies in tyranny
Abbas Djavadi in Payvand.com: Khamenei on crash course
Canada Free Press: America’s supine leader
Fareed Zakari on CNN (interview): fatal wound inflicted on ideology
Rick Moran in American Thinker: look to Qom for next breaking story
John Lee Anderson in petroleumworld.com: understanding the basij
Lila Ghobady on commondreams.org: no matter who is president, they would stone me
Gary Sick: Moussavi’s new revolutionary manifesto
Friday-Saturday June 19-20
Azadeh Moaveni in the Guardian: why now?
Blog: how to steal 11 million votes
Matt Steinglass: the biggest social revolution ever to fail?
Wall Street Journal: the fear is gone
New York Times: a different Iranian revolution (excellent read)
salon.com: who hates who in Iran
Karim Sadjadpour in Foreign Policy: is Moussavi willing to risk ‘slaughter’ in the streets?
Transcript of Khamenei speech to Friday Prayers: PressTV
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Thursday June 18
Spiegel Online: open letter to Khamenei from Iranian exile
Globe and Mail: inside Interior Ministry torture cells
Views from the Occident: Lebanon’s Hesbollah in Iran – rumour and reality
Eric Hooglund in on tehranbureau.com: Iran’s rural vote and election fraud
Pejman Yousefzadeh on the revolution Iran needs
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Wednesday June 17
Gareth Smyth on tehranbureau.com: Iran’s power struggle
Wall St Journal: five ways Obama could promote freedom
New York Times: Iran’s hidden revolution
Tom Watson’s Soup: the revolution will not be Twittered
Tehran Bureau: dispatch from a province far from Tehran
Bill Keller of the New York Times: no such thing as innocent Googling
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Tuesday June 16
Neil MacFarquhar in the New York Times: Iron cleric now blinking
Al Gordiano at The Field: regime overplays its hand
Reza Fiyouzat in Dissident Voice: the larger context
Simon Henderson in London Evening Standard: rebellion could fade as fast as it blossomed
Reuters: Interview with Reza Pahlavi
Al-Jazeera: supreme leader under pressure
New York Times: where will the power lie in Iran?
Trita Parsi in Time: who’s fighting who
New York Times: social networks spread defiance
Robert Fisk in The Independent: Iran’s day of destiny
Maziar Bahari in Newsweek: blood in Tehran
Laura Secor in the New Yorker: why Tehran matters
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Monday June 15
Abbas Milani in Forbes: a coup in three steps
UN Dispatch: the Mugabe precedent?
Moussavi’s request to Guardian Council to annul elections
New York Times: protesters defy ban
CNN comment: hardliners are real losers
Harrowing video of riot police beating someone “to death”
Pics – aftermath of violence at Tehran University
BBC: Iranian protesters call off rally
CNN: Hatred, chaos and savage beatings in Tehran
Washington Independent: Obama focus on human rights, not election
And now for someone who really has his finger on the Iranian pulse – NOT!
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Sunday June 14
Kevin Sullivan: watching the inevitable in Iran
Steve Clemons: There will be blood
What an Iranian revolutionary told The Independent’s Robert Fisk.
Interview with unnamed Iranian journalist
The Guardian: why Moussavi and Khamenei don’t get on
Pics claiming to show aftermath of violence Saturday night at Isfahan University
Gary Sick: Iran’s political coup
Christopher Hitchens: don’t call it an election
Tehran Bureau: ayatollahs protest election fraud
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