Sunday Iran News Links

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June 14, 2009

The Iranian government arrests over 100 opposition leaders. It looks like this might get really, really violent.

Talking Points Memo has a photo gallery of what’s happening.

After all other forms of communication are cut, there are reports of Twitter-organized rooftop chants from opposition supporters. Also, Twitter users all over the world have overwhelmed Supreme Leader Khamenei’s and Ahmadinejad’s web sites.

The Mullahs in Iran rigged the election because of fear of “the Barack Obama effect.”

Vice President Joe Biden expresses “doubt” that Ahmadinejad won legitimately.

Ahmadinejad refuses to guarantee his opponent’s safety.

This is just heartbreaking.

BSKY

Seth Fischer

Seth Fischerâ€™s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writerâ€™s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.