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Iranian Government Says Neda Soltan’s Murder Was ‘Staged’
— “according to Iran’s Press TV, police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam declared Wednesday that the shooting was a ‘prearranged scenario’ — a ‘premeditated act of murder’ that could not have been committed by Iranian police.”

Iran election: faces of the dead and detained
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jun/29/iran-election-dead-detained

Iran militia wants probe of opposition leader
http://www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=10623958
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3491729668

(Iran) Mir-Hossein Mousavi calls Iran election illegitimate in renewed defiance of ayatollah
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5711930/Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-calls-Iran-election-illegitimate-in-renewed-defiance-of-ayatollah.html

(Iran) Opposition leaders court arrest by defying Ahmadinejad
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6618756.ece

Iran reform leader calls election illegitimate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_615
— Reformists question legitimacy of Iran’s government
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.election/index.html

Iranian Government Says Neda Soltan’s Murder Was ‘Staged’
— “according to Iran’s Press TV, police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam declared Wednesday that the shooting was a ‘prearranged scenario’ — a ‘premeditated act of murder’ that could not have been committed by Iranian police.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529780,00.html

‘This Iranian Form of Theocracy Has Failed’ — Iranian theologian and philosopher Mohsen Kadivar
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,633517,00.html

Iranian Majlis Member Ghodratollah Alikhani in Majlis: The People’s Trust in This Country’s Regime and Leaders Has Been Fractured
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD242709

(Iran) UK: More Tehran embassy staff freed
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25721523-23109,00.html

‘EU might pull ambassadors from Iran’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443695255&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Iran) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns of revenge on pro-democracy states
— “Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned the regime would seek revenge against states it has accused of fanning pro-democracy demonstrations in the wake of its disputed election”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5698913/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-warns-of-revenge-on-pro-democracy-states.html

Iran declares election fight over, vote valid
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7962962
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_607

Iran election: Mir-Hossein Mousavi tells supporters to keep protesting
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5696692/Iran-election-Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-tells-supporters-to-keep-protesting.html

Amir Taheri writes “The fight for Iran’s future is far from over”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6605062.ece

“Out of sight, Iran remains on the brink”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3725291/out-of-sight-iran-remains-on-the-brink.thtml

“U.S. dollars could kill Iran’s protest movement”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/dabashi.us.iran/index.html

MEMRI: “Iranian Parliament Speaker Hadad Adel: BBC Teeming with Bahais; Stands for ‘Bahai Broadcasting Company'”
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD242609

MEMRI: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Criticizes U.S. President Obama for Interfering in Iran’s Elections
Dispute: ‘He Has Removed His Mask'”
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD242509

Iran says partial recount shows election valid
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_593

Iran recount seen as bid to placate opposition
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_591

Iran releases five British embassy workers after diplomatic protest by Miliband
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6600119.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5681889/Iran-says-some-arrested-British-embassy-employees-released.html

(Iran) Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown condemned Iran’s detention of embassy workers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5688972/Hillary-Clinton-and-Gordon-Brown-condemned-Irans-detention-of-embassy-workers.html

MEMRI Iranian Media Blog
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=Announcement9909

Iran: Ahmadinejad orders probe into student’s death
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3483154540

(Iran) New clashes in Iran as standoff worsens with West
— “Witnesses said riot police used tear gas and clubs to break up a crowd of up to 3,000 protesters who had gathered near north Tehran’s Ghoba Mosque”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

Iran’s mass arrests: Broadest since 1979 Islamic revolution
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0628/p06s01-wome.html

Iran arrests British embassy staff
— “Eight British embassy employees in Tehran have been arrested in a sharp escalation of the diplomatic row between Iran and the UK”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5672787/Iran-arrests-British-embassy-staff.html
— British fury as Iran arrests nine embassy workers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6597815.ece

Iran allows demonstration despite weekend clampdown
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html

(Iran) Report: Hospitalized Iranians seized
— “Iranians wounded during protests are being seized at hospitals by members of an Islamic militia, an
Amnesty International official told CNN.”
— “‘The Basijis are waiting for them,’ said Banafsheh Akhlaghi”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/27/iran.protests/index.html

(Iran) Tehran protest diary, week two: an angry Muslim mother reports from within Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5662061/Tehran-protest-diary-week-two-an-angry-Muslim-mother-reports-from-within-Iran.html

Iran opposition rejects partial recount
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25704323-23109,00.html

(Iran) Khamenei blasts West for ‘idiotic remarks’: TV
http://geo.tv/6-28-2009/45027.htm

Iran’s Press TV disputes story of Neda’s death
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.neda.dispute/index.html

Report of the following Iranian democracy protest:

Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009
Time:  11:00am – 5:00pm
Location:  Iranian Interest Section to the Reflecting Pool
Street:  2209 Wisconsin Ave. NW
City/Town:  Washington, DC

– reports of protests at UN or Union Square Park 3 PM, Statue of Liberty 3:30 PM
— reports of planned protest at United Nations (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,47th street and 1st avenue, NYC )
— reports of planned protest at the Statue of Liberty, Saturday, June 27th, 3:30-4 pm, Battery Park
— report on Statue of Liberty protest  from Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi
— background on Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

(Iran) U.S. Officials: Iran Opposition Leader’s Web Site Shut Down, Supporters ‘Tortured’ Into Confessions
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529267,00.html?test=latestnews

Iran’s security council tells Moussavi to back off
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/26/iran.election.moussavi/index.html

CNN: Iran Election Fallout
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/iran.elections/

Iran bans Mousavi ally from leaving the country
— “Abolfazl Fateh, head of Mousavi’s media office”
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLR12028420090627

Amnesty: Iran journalists should be freed
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/27/Amnesty-Iran-journalists-should-be-freed/UPI-97011246107981/

(Iran) What will become of Iran’s “stiletto revolution” now?
— “In a country where the repression of women’s rights is the norm, and where Muslim extremists brutally
enforce the state’s requirement that women dress modestly at all times, the contribution of Iran’s women
to the anti-government protests has been pivotal to maintaining the reform movement’s momentum in the
face of the Islamic regime’s increasingly viscous response”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651664/What-will-become-of-Irans-stiletto-revolution-now.html

Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks President Barack Obama for “interfering” in election
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5663401/Irans-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-President-Barack-Obama-for-interfering-in-election.html

CNN: “‘Punished mercilessly’ — Is this Islam?”
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/27/punished-mercilessly-is-this-islam/