Saturday, June 13, 2009
Tracking The Tehran Protests
As the evidence mounts that Iran's two most powerful groups -- the military and the theocracy -- conspired to rig last week's election for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, street violence has exploded across Tehren. Rafsanjani is reported to have resigned his posts in protest and Mousavi is apparently under house arrest. There's a lot happening right now, but the MSM is curiously low-key about it. The blogosphere is all over it, though; Juan Cole, TPM and Andrew Sullivan offer the best coverage right now. TPM offers a remarkable slide show of events on the ground; check it out.
