Unrest In Iran -- News And Commentaries For June 21, 2009

Supporters of the defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi fled from the riot police on Saturday in Tehran. Getty Images

Iran Raises Death Toll In Clashes To At Least 19 -- Yahoo News/AP

TEHRAN, Iran – State media reported Sunday at least 10 more deaths in post-election unrest and said authorities have arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful men.

The reports brought the official death toll for a week of unrest to at least 19. State television inside Iran said 10 were killed and 100 injured in clashes Saturday between demonstrators contesting the result of the June 12 election and black-clad police wielding truncheons, tear gas and water cannons.

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WNU'S Favorite Sites That Are Covering The Unrest In Iran

The Lede/New York Times is providing excellent news updates. That link is HERE.

The Huffington Post is Live Blogging the unrest in Iran. That link is Here.

The Daily Dish Blog is providing news reports and analysis on what is happening in Iran. That link is HERE.

The Daily Dish is also Live-Tweeting what is happening in Iran. The link to read news updates is HERE.

Full Coverage On Iran -- Yahoo News (AP/AFP/Reuters/Time/McClatchy)
Full Coverage On Iran -- McClatchy News
Full Coverage On Iran -- CNN News
BBC has extensive coverage of the rioting and protests here.

MORE NEWS ON THE UNREST IN IRAN

Tehran Tense After Clashes That Killed at Least 13 -- New York Times
Iran on knife-edge as opposition defies rulers -- Yahoo News/AFP
Iran prepares for more violence -- UPI
Tehran Girds for More Protests -- Wall Street Journal.
Tehran Tense, Quiet, After Week of Violent Protests -- Voice of America
IRAN: Tehran is quiet a day after protests -- L.A. Times
Iran Rafsanjani Family Members Arrested Says State Media-BBC -- Wall Street Journal
Top cleric may be playing role in Iran unrest -- AP
Thousands of Protesters Clash with Police in Tehran -- Voice of America
Police Unleash Force On Rally in Tehran -- Washington Post
Violence Grips Tehran Amid Crackdown -- New York Times
Iran blames "terrorists" for violence -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Iran says 10 killed in unrest as opposition defiant -- Yahoo News/AFP
Tehran Clashes Grow More Violent -- Los Angeles Times
Violence Erupts in Defiant Tehran Protests -- Washington Times
Tehran Protestors Defy Tear Gas -- The Times
Iran's Ahmadinejad tells US, Britain to not interfere -- Reuters
Obama to Iran: "The World Is Watching" -- Slate
Cautious Response Reflects Obama's Long-Term Approach -- Washington Post
Obama Says ‘Justice’ Is Needed for Iranians -- New York Times
Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned -- New York Times
On the Protests in Iran: Technology rages against the machine -- San Francisco Chronicle
Unrest in Iran raises profile for Twitter -- Mercury News
Iranians Use Internet, Phones to Share Protest News -- Voice of America
Google and Facebook Go Farsi to Help Spread Message from Iran -- The Times
Reading Twitter in Tehran? -- John Palfrey, Bruce Etling and Robert Faris, Washington Post opinion.

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets -- Roger Cohen, New York Times opinion
Iran’s Dictator Gives Up Pretence of Democracy -- Amir Taheri, The Times opinion
The Heroines Of Iran -- New York Post
The Mullahs will win: Deal with it. -- The Week
Obama’s New Historic First: Indifference to Revolution -- Commentary
A Struggle for the Legacy of the Iranian Revolution -- Robert F. Worth, New York Times
In Tehran, a Moment For Obama to Seize -- Jim Hoagland, Washington Post opinion
Realism on Iran? It's Called Freedom -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post opinion
Even Democracy Might Not Solve the Iranian Nuclear Problem -- American Spectator
People Power in Iran Can Carry the Day -- The Times editorial

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