In an attempt at offering a concession to those outraged about the electoral fraud perpetrated on the Iranian people, the Guardian Council in Iran has pledged to perform a partial recount. However, it has refused to annul the vote.
Tag Archives: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran Update: More Rallies And A Shooting
June 15, 2009 – 9:35 pm
First, the good news: Protesters in Iran are not letting up in their efforts to call the government to account. Despite the very real dangers they face, they are planning more rallies in defiance of the regime’s efforts to steal the presidential election:
Iran In Turmoil
June 15, 2009 – 9:00 am
Events in the country now recall the tactics used by the Islamic Revolution:
Needed: A New Iranian Revolution
June 14, 2009 – 1:21 pm
Bu
t will we have one? My latest:
If there is anything to be learned in the aftermath of the blatantly stolen election in Iran, it is that genuine progress in the country is utterly and completely impossible without a wholesale change in the regime. The change will have to come from within, but it will have to come; without it, whatever chance there is for the best hopes and aspirations of Iranians to be realized will be crushed under the iron boots of the mullahs, and their enablers–the fraudulent pseudo-president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The question, however, is whether Iran will get the revolution it desperately needs. The regime will do anything necessary–no matter how bloody and violent–to hold on to power. And the Obama Administration seems clueless on what the stakes really are in Iran.
This article is quite the long one. But it was important to be thorough.
Stating The Obvious
June 14, 2009 – 1:07 pm
The International Campaign For Human Rights in Iran demands that the international community withhold recognition of the outcome of the elections.
Roger Cohen’s Mea Culpa
June 14, 2009 – 1:05 pm
The New York Times columnist was one of those most insistent on hailing a new dawn in Iran in advance of the vote. Now he realizes he was completely in error:
Quote Of The Day
June 14, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sounds like Baghdad Bob right about now: “It was a free and healthy election,” he said.
Iran: The Revolts Continue
June 14, 2009 – 10:59 am
The passage of another day has done nothing to stop the demonstrations in Iran against the stolen presidential election and its fraudulent results:
- March 18, 2010 -
MORE LEDGER
ELSEWHERE ON TNL
DAILY READS
- Bush, Obama, and the Intellectuals
- Health Bill Has Democrats Scrambling to Find More Votes
- Conan and Fox in Talks for Late Night Return
- Take Your Hands Off My Pork
- The Final Eleven
- Health Care: The Anti-Jobs Bill?
- Dodd’s Financial Rules Package Would Result in More Fed Muscle
- Credit Agency Warns U.S. and Others of Risk to Top Rating
- Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Scoop Breitbart, the ‘Bigs’ — HUD next O’Keefe Video Sting Target
- China Threatens Google
MARKETS & POLICY
- Paul Krugman, Shadow Treasury Secretary, Misreads China
- Krugman’s War on China
- Following the Money on the Deficit
- Lesson From Moody’s: Rewrite the Social Contract
- Justice and the Prosecution of Lehman Execs
- Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare
- Healthcare Reform: the Arithmetic Doesn’t Work
- Watch for an upside surprise on Treasury notes today (Updated)
- Destroy the City to Save It
- How Much Credit Should We Have in the World?
The WHIP
- HCR Roundup: Slaughter Strategy Fallout
- How Obamacare Will Reshape the Workforce
- Endgame: Pelosi’s Health Care Gamble
- David Brooks Applies For a Job
- Obamacare’s Two Americas
- How Do You Whip Nonexistent Legislation?
- Cheney in Exile
- How Mitt Romney Blew It (Again)
- Another Democrat Goes Down: Massa to Retire
- Obama’s Four GOP Ideas Myth
HEGEMON
- Biden in Israel
- Love and Respect
- Putinjugend Website Publishes North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Paintings
- Three Reasonable Questions on Climate Change
- Fisking Foreign Policy’s Guide to Climate Skeptics
- Brennan gets it wrong at NYU
- Iran’s Big Punch – A Nuclear Test?
- The moral bankruptcy of Amnesty International
- The Scottish Islamist and British ‘racism’
- The Future Is Today: China Gets A Preview of Girl-lessness in Guangdong
CHEQUER BOARD
- Tea Leaves
- What The Obama Administration Doesn’t Understand About The Middle East
- If Joe Biden Didn’t Exist, We Would Have To Invent Him
- Quote Of The Day
- Israeli Politics Made Simple
- The Illogic And Injustice Of Deem And Pass
- The Obama Administration: Absent From Asia
- Health Care Reform Myths
- Shakespeare, I Hope, Would Approve
- The Ultimate Cop-Out
Follow us online
LINK NETWORK
- Atlantic Online
- Boston Globe
- Breitbart
- Chicago Tribune
- Daily Beast
- Drudge Report
- Foreign Policy
- Guardian UK
- Houston Chronicle
- Huffington Post
- Instapundit
- Los Angeles Times
- Memeorandum
- New York Times
- NTC News
- Pajamas Media
- Politico
- RCP Blog
- RealClearWorld
- Spectator UK
- Telegraph UK
- The Blotter
- The Hill
- The Long War Journal
- Times Online UK
- USA Today
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- Washington Times
- Yahoo News
- Ace of Spades
- Blogometer
- Commentary
- CQ Politics
- Ezra Klein
- Hotline On Call
- LA Times: Top of the Ticket
- Marc Ambinder
- Michael Barone
- Michelle Malkin
- New Criterion
- Political Punch
- Politics Daily
- Power Line
- RealClearPolitics
- Redstate
- Room for Debate
- The Brody File
- The Campaign Spot
- The Corner
- The Minority Report
- The National Interest
- The New Republic
- The Next Right
- The Note
- The Other McCain
- The Weekly Standard
- Time: Swampland
- Townhall
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Washington Examiner: Opinion
- WSJ: Capital Journal
- WSJ: Washington Wire
- Autoblog Green
- Biodiversity
- Cleantech
- Climate Audit
- Cornwall Alliance
- CrunchyCon
- Ducks Unlimited
- Earth2Tech
- Environment Report
- Evangelical Ecologist
- Field and Stream
- Green Christian Network
- Green Tech
- GreenDaily
- Heartland Institute
- Master Resource
- National Geographic Blogs
- Nature Blogs
- NJ: Energy & Environment
- Real Climate
- SA: Earth and Environment
- Steven F. Hayward
- Watts Up With That?
- Wired: Planet Earth
- World Climate Report
- WSJ: Environmental Capital
- Ace of Spades
- American Culture
- Arthur’s Hall
- Big Hollywood
- CityRag
- Cracked
- Culture 11
- Deadspin
- Fark
- Film Drunk
- Foggy Monocle
- Galley Slaves
- I Don’t Like You In That Way
- Kissing Suzy Kolber
- Lileks: The Bleat
- Moe Lane
- Protein Wisdom
- Slate
- The Deceiver
- The Real
- The Superficial
- TMZ
- TV Without Pity
- With Leather
- WWTDD