The Times round up of the days' events
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp
See here for an initial overview.
after Podhoretz casually called for England to "bomb the Iranians into smithereens" if their sailors weren't immediately returned
it's extremely clear that the POTUSA and anyone that matters in D.C. is not listening to them. it's a bit like saying Lindsey German represents the most principled opposition to ISAF actions in Afghanistan.
The difference between L. German on the one hand, and the likes of McCain, Podhoretz, Bolton, Lieberman and Giuliani on the other is that former is a marginal figure in British politics without meaninful powerbase in society, while the latter group is made up of influential mainstream powerbrokers with continual MCM access (mainstream cooperate media), one of who almost became US president a few months back.
Google earth: there's a technology whose time has not yet come. How frequently do they update the satellite images?
Imagery update for Tehran
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Many of you have been letting us know through Tweets, emails, blog posts, message boards, and even an online petition that you're very interested in seeing recent satellite imagery of Tehran. Well, we've heard your requests and over the past few days have been working with our satellite imagery partner GeoEye to make this possible. We just received updated satellite imagery of Tehran, taken on Thursday the 18th at approximatly 11:18am local time. Below are some screenshots the updated imagery, you can view the entire image in Google Earth with this KML file.
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The images above were taken from GeoEye's IKONOS satellite, which images at roughly 1-meter per pixel. We are continuing to work with GeoEye to see if we can provide a higher resolution update from the GeoEye-1 satellite, which would be at 0.5-meters per pixel, but this is subject to weather constraints. We'd like to thank GeoEye for making this imagery available to us and to thank our users for their advocacy.
Good round up of yesterday's events based on tweets: The Green Brief 4 - NiteOwl
!!It has also been confirmed that in Mashhad, a very large number Mullahs accompanied the protesters.
Two thoughts:
First, Niccolo Machiavelli:
[A]ll armed prophets have conquered, and unarmed propheets have come to grief...
Second, three people:
Alessandro Farnese, Prince of Parma: He who draws his sword against his Prince needs to throw away his scabbard...
Cersei Lannister: When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die...
Omar: You come at the king, you best not miss...
Brad DeLong on Mousavi's response to Khomenei:
4:43 AM ET -- Report: 40 senior clerics want election results annulled. The intense infighting among Iran's clerical establishment appeared to play out in new dramatic fashion on Monday. Via reader Art, the news site Peiknet reported that Ayatollah Rafsanjani has a letter signed by 40 members of the powerful 86-member Assembly of Experts calling for the annulment of the recent presidential election results.
Moreover, the letter (the authenticity of which has, again, not been verified) charges that the arrest of Rafsanjani's daughter Faezeh on Sunday was a way to exert pressure on him, and that she was followed and identified by the intelligence services during the rally.
More translation via a reader:
It says Khamenai has lung cancer and wanted to have his son as Supreme Leader (the position that Rafsanjani wants), and that the attempt to alter the election results was done in an attempt by Khamenei to eventually allow his son Mojtaba to replace him. It says that at the core the argument is not just about Mousavi but the overall system of government, as it's becoming a like Monarchy rather than a republic. So far, it says, most of the clerics have not accepted Ahmadinejad presidency, and quotes Ayatollah Javadi Amoly saying of the attack on Tehran University students, 'no Muslim will destroy another's property, they must be foreigners.'