IRAN RISES

Gareth Porter interviewed on Antiwar.com A little off-topic. Historian Gareth Porter demonstrates to his satisfaction, at least, that the Clinton administration ignored evidence pointing to Ossama bin Laden as the real culprit in the Khobar Towars bombing in order to deflect blame from the Saudis and pin it on the current enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Morning Edition, Day Of Mourning For Dead Iranian Protesters (Listen to Borzou Deragahi’s reporting at the top of the page!)

Borzou Daragahi, Senior Iranian cleric calls for revision of election laws

Farnaz Fassihi, Inside the Iranian Crackdown

Update
The updates will be preceded by (UPDATE July 11, 2009).

Iason Athanasiadis