Perusing the intertubes, here's some of the latest news from Iran. What are you hearing?UPDATE: Wear green tomorrow in support of FREE AND FAIR elections in Iran.
*mousavi1338 reports, "Mousavi asks his supporters to protest throughout Iran from 4pm on Monday 15 June (in Tehran: Enghelab Sq. to Azadi Sq.)"
*StopAhmadi reports, "NEWS: The correct votes were 19,7M Mousavi, Karoubi 7M, Rezaei 3M, Ahmadinejad 7-8M"
*Iran detains Ahmedinejad opponents: "The Iranian authorities detained more than 100 prominent opposition members, and on Sunday unrest continued for a second day across Iran in the wake of the country’s disputed presidential election."
*"Death to the dictator": "Protesters battled police over Iran's disputed election and shouted their opposition from the rooftops Sunday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest as little more than "passions after a soccer match" and drew his own huge rally of support...Just after sundown, cries of 'death to the dictator' echoed through Tehran."*Stratfor has a translation of a letter from e Mir Hossein Mousavi, which warns in part of the "dangers" of "tyranny and dictatorship" and that "today our nation is standing at a point that finds this prospect tangible."
*The White House " has not issued a statement expressing support for the protestors declaring the election illegitimate. But neither has anyone in the Obama administration said a public word accepting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection."
*Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "just endorsed the election results for a second time. 'Elections in Iran are the soundest, the healthiest of their kind,' he said to cheering supporters."
*A Mousavi spokesman says, "We are going to stay in the streets and ask the mullahs to give fatwas that Ahmedinejad is not our president...I don't think we can do a total Revolution in Iran but we can make some change."
*Letter from Tehran: "It's becoming increasingly clear that this was a palace coup, a palace coup in the style of Peru's Fujimori...In the streets, the mood is incredibly tense and eminently explosive...The battle is elsewhere now and while the obvious theft of the election has enraged and disappointed millions, the action now is to demonstrate that folks aren't just going to take it."*Steve Clemons writes, "Iran's now illegitimate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just made the bizarre statement in the last hour that ongoing street protests really show that Iran is a democracy. I guess he hasn't been to the ones where people are being beaten by police with clubs."
*Neoconservative Max Boot says there's a "bright side" to Ahmedinejad's win: "If the mullahs were really canny, they would have let Mousavi win. He would have presented a more reasonable face to the world without changing the grim underlying realities of Iran’s regime–the oppression, the support for terrorism, the nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs...But instead it appears that the mullahocracy was determined to anoint Ahmadinejad the winner – and by a margin which no one can take seriously as a true representation of Iranian popular will."
*Juan Cole continues his excellent coverage of the Iran situation, writing that "this is not a north Tehran/ south Tehran issue" ("to believe that the 20% hard line support of 2001 has become 63% in 2009, we would have to posit that Iran is less urban, less literate and less interested in cultural issues today than 8 years ago.")
*#CNNFail: "Even as Twitter became the best source for rapid-fire news developments from the front lines of the riots in Tehran, a growing number of users of the microblogging service were incredulous at the near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN, a network that cut its teeth with on-the-spot reporting from the Middle East."
