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...worked to put down the widespread street demonstrations that followed the disputed poll, sending in police and pro-government militiamen to beat up and disperse demonstrators. Now, with the street protests dying down, the regime has attempted to rescue its legitimacy by casting the unrest as the work of "foreign instigators...
...first public meeting since the elections, Ahmadinejad visited officials at the Intelligence Ministry on June 30. "The enemies, despite their overt and covert conspiracies aimed at soft regime change, have failed," he said. Iran's state media took up a narrative of foreign intervention and sabotage; foreign media and Iranian dual-national journalists were cast in lead roles. "The day after the elections, CNN started a 24-hour psychological war room against Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hassan Qashqavi told a moderator with seeming outrage on Iranian state TV. Later in the program, the host said he had heard the Saudi...
...Newsweek. Bahari, 42, was arrested by security officials at his mother's home on June 21. In what appears to be a forced confession, the news agency highlighted Bahari's role as a producer for the BBC and Britain's Channel 4 and quoted him saying that "espionage by foreign reporters is undeniable" and that in some cases Iranian reporters "make mistakes, become emotional and greedy and fall into the trap of foreigners." The news report fails to mention that Bahari is actually in detention. So far, he has not been charged with any crime. (Watch TIME's video...
...soft politics." Chastising the London Guardian newspaper for its reporting on Neda Agha Soltan - the 27-year-old woman whose death on video has made her an icon of Iran's protest movement - it says the paper failed to mention "evidence" by the Intelligence Ministry "which points to some foreign government's planning of this scenario." Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami, a conservative leader of Tehran's Friday Prayers, accused the protesters themselves of killing Neda: "Any intelligent person seeing the film gets it ... the way they've shot it from where the woman's car is." Iran's ambassador to Mexico...
...Some think the E.U. has to show some teeth to maintain its credibility. "The E.U. needs to show that its position is associated with the U.S., with its implicit threat of coercive action," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Noting that Iran's economy is struggling - oil is now below $68 a barrel and the recent turmoil will further deter foreign investment - Korski says the government has a long-term interest in repairing its relationship with the E.U. "Iran may rant and rage, but that doesn't mean the E.U. is being kicked...