ZP Heller, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. July 9, 2009. Cole and HuffPo's Nico Pitney discuss how the Obama administration must engage the Iranian regime.
Agence France Presse July 7, 2009. Noting unrest since the disputed June presidential election, Clinton said: "We have seen in the last weeks that Iran has not respected its own democracy."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 6, 2009. "Israel can determine for itself ... what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else."
Katie Mattern, IPS News. July 3, 2009. Sick and disabled, 55-year old Saeed Hajjarian is one of hundreds of reformists arrested for "orchestrating" the post-election violence in Tehran.
Jasmin Ramsey, PULSE AlterNet: PEEK. June 30, 2009. Most stories show Mousavi supporters at their heart, but the question of who truly represents the majority has yet to be answered.
David Waldman, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. June 29, 2009. Imagine if the influencers who get their first reports of news through the horribly skewed bullshit lens of Drudge used Twitter instead.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation AlterNet: World. June 26, 2009. Why the Obama administration should talk with Iran's leaders, even after the regime's despicable election behavior.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes inexplicably argued that Iranians don't remember the 1953 U.S. overthrow of their democratically elected leader.
Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. June 25, 2009. Why is corporate media so eager to cover the people's movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here?
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: World. June 24, 2009. Asked if the U.S. has 'intelligence operatives on the ground in Iran,' Brent Scowcroft replied, "Of course we do."
Khody Akhavi, Ali Gharib, IPS News. June 24, 2009. Facing calls to speak out more forcefully on Iran's disputed election results, the U.S. president made his harshest statement yet Tuesday.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. June 24, 2009. Republican screeds on the Iran uprising continue to get more and more offensive. Incredible.
Barbara Crossette, The Nation. June 24, 2009. The pervasive presence of women in the Iran uprising have been cast into sharp focus by the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan during a street protest.
Sara Farhang, IPS News. June 23, 2009. Ahmadinejad seems determined to round up anyone who could play a key role in rallying public support for opposition demands.
Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: World. June 23, 2009. A special comment by Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: World. June 23, 2009. The line pushed by McCain has become the de-facto Republican criticism of Obama since the crisis in Iran began.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 23, 2009. Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: World. June 22, 2009. Marco Rubio: "I have a feeling the situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd amendment like ours."
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. June 22, 2009. Americans express outrage and solidarity on behalf of the people of Iran; meanwhile innocent people die every day with our tax dollars.
Agence France Presse June 22, 2009. Iran's election watchdog acknowledged discrepancies in the June 12 presidential vote but insisted they would not change the overall results.
Leslie Savan, The Nation. June 22, 2009. The Iran protests have thrown Republican ideologues into such a tizzy of circular logic that they're stepping on their own propaganda.