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Iran Reports – June 26, 2009

Iranian cleric says “rioters” should be executed
— Ahmad Khatami: “without showing any mercy”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090626/wl_nm/us_iran_election
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6583797.ece

Iranian cleric: harsh punishment for riot leaders — Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami
— “A leading cleric demanded in a nationally broadcast sermon Friday that leaders of the unrest be punished ‘strongly and with cruelty.'”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7935256
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election
— Iran: Cleric calls for ‘savage’ punishment for protesters
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3472488496

(Iran) Mousavi backs away from Iran street protests
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31564910/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Iran election: Tehran backs Hizbollah operations around world
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651837/Iran-election-Tehran-backs-Hizbollah-operations-around-world.html
— Hizbullah accuses West of fomenting turmoil in Iran
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=185052

(Iran) NYC: Planned Iranian Democracy Protests in NYC on Saturday June 27
https://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/nyc-protests-june-27/

(Iran) Europe: Iranians mobilizing
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/06/europe-iranians-mobilizing.html

(Iran) Sweden: Protesters break into Iranian embassy in Sweden
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_IRAN_EMBASSY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-06-26-12-07-35

Iran election: G8 foreign ministers condemn violence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5648281/Iran-election-G8-foreign-ministers-condemn-violence.html
— G8 considers condemning Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5645932/G8-considers-condemning-Iran.html

Iranian Electoral watchdog says disputed vote Iran’s ‘cleanest’
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/June/middleeast_June880.xml&section=middleeast

(Iran) Communist China wants Ahmadinejad election recognized
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/23/china-wants-ahmadinejad-election-recognized/?feat=article_top10_read

Iranian protesters avoid censorship with Navy technology
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/26/protesters-use-navy-technology-to-avoid-censorship/?feat=home_headlines

Iranian envoy: CIA involved in Neda’s shooting?
— Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Hassan Ghadir blames CIA
— “Media aren’t reporting on pro-Ahmadinejad demonstrations, he says”
— “CIA spokesman says idea is ‘wrong, absurd and offensive'”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.ambassador/index.html

(Iran) Arab Activists Watch Iran And Wonder: ‘Why Not Us?’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504415.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

(Iran) Where is Soroush? – by Gary Johnson
http://unitedagainstislamicsupremacism.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/where-is-soroush/
— Wikipedia states: Souroush seeks a “religious democracy”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdolkarim_Soroush#Religious_democracy