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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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