The protests continue, the violent and brutal crackdowns on dissent continue, the Iranian government continues to try and muffle the media and electronic forms of communication, and Iran’s “senior ayatollah” has condemned the election results as a sham. Read all that and more at Memeorandum, where the links on the good, bad, and ugly continue to pile up.
Via the Telegraph (from over the weekend):
Policy/think tank analysts Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty have written a piece for the WaPo suggesting that the election results from Iran perhaps really do reflect the will of the Iranian people:
Yesterday, Iran’s state-run media declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of the much-talked about Iranian presidential election against so-called “pro-westerner” and former Iranian prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi, and as a result of that declaration chaos, violence, bloodshed, and allegations of voter fraud have taken center stage.
The results aren’t official yet, but here’s the latest, via Reuters:
Malkin and Morrissey have both weighed in with very different takes. I haven’t had a chance to read/listen to it yet – and I’m not sure I want to if it’s nothing but the typical Obama apologyfest (and do I want to hear him quote the Koran?), but here’s a transcript if you’d like to.
