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Iran Accuses U.N. of Meddling

After accusing western media and nations of fomenting protests in Iran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has now charged U.N. leadership with meddling in the affairs of their election. Via Voice of America: Iran is accusing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of meddling in its affairs after he urged the Islamic state to stop its crackdown on opposition protesters. Iran's [...]
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Weekend Crackdown on Protests in Iran

The Associated Press reports on the Iranian government's response to the ongoing election protests.
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Iran Claims U.S. Interference in Elections

The New York Times reports that Iran is cracking down on journalists and has directly accused the United States of interfering in their presedential election. The article goes on to report that: President Obama said a day earlier that it would be counterproductive for the United States “to be seen as meddling.” But he has also said [...]
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Iran | Growing Angry with Election Protests

Iran is trying to quell the protests over their presidential results.
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Mashable | U.S. Government Asks Twitter to Stay Up for #IranElection Crisis

Fascinating report from Mashable. A short while from now, Twitter will go down for maintenance due to extraordinary circumstances: The #IranElection Controversy. Originally scheduled to perform maintenance last night, the work was moved to 2 PM PT today so that Iranians could tweet about the crisis. With members of the media kicked out of Iranian cities, millions [...]
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Growing Distrust of Iran’s Election Results

There have been huge riots in Iran in the wake of the country's recent election. So far, hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, and so far 1 has died during protest. There have been growing whispers of electoral fraud. The Washington Post Reports: CAIRO -- How do you count almost 40 [...]
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