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...disappointed Joe Klein spent only 10 days in Iran, mostly in and around Tehran, and wrote a story speculating that nearly 50% of the Iranian people voted for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He should have talked to us Iranians who travel all over Iran and know how detested Ahmadinejad is in most jurisdictions. Please talk to more Iranians; you'll see that they overwhelmingly support a pro-Western, democratic government and not the rule of force and dark obscurantism. Darius Adle, LOS ANGELES...
...Moment" on Twitter in Iran [June 29]: I don't tweet. But I do find it interesting that just two weeks after TIME's cover story on Twitter's influence--and this week's mainly skeptical readers' feedback--we witness what many are calling the Twitter Revolution in Iran. At least during these tumultuous times, Twitter has proved to be an invaluable communication tool that has kept the rest of the world informed about and connected to the brave protesters in Iran. Major Dorian de Win (ret.), AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...Foreign Minister is an unlikely firebrand. In person, he can be reserved to the point of shyness. When we met him at his office on June 24, we asked Lieberman whether Obama needed to take a tougher stand against Iran's crackdown on those protesting the results of the June 12 election. "This is a really fanatic, extremist regime that is still in power, and the young people ... are not getting any real support from the West," he said. "It shows the bad guys are winners." And he reiterated his resistance to any U.S. attempt to stop settlement growth...
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...Tehran Sore Winner Iran's Guardian Council has officially confirmed the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, following a recount of some 10% of the ballots cast in the country's disputed June 12 election. Tehran has warned that it won't tolerate further protests; the harsh government crackdown has killed as many as 20 people and caused Iran's worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The formal results were met with skepticism abroad. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. has not decided whether to recognize Ahmadinejad's victory, noting that the protests have...