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            <title><![CDATA[Iran Goes on Strike]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Reza Aslan reports that opposition leaders in Iran are planning a three-day strike to be carried out under the cover of a religious holiday. The revolution, it turns out, is far from over.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's `We Are the World']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Social media brought crucial news out of Iran-now it's being used to send songs of solidarity in. WATCH VIDEO of Iranian-American musicians blasting anthems of support to their peers in Tehran.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Trouble for Hardliners]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Roxana Saberi, out of prison in Tehran and safe on American soil, says Iran's rulers won't be able to quiet the nation's unrest.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, In Iran...]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Here are five big stories you may have missed while obsessing over Michael Jackson. By Benjamin Sarlin.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Mullahs' Secret Battle]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The uprising's power struggle has shifted from the streets to the backrooms of the government. But The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan writes that, despite rumors, demonstrators are hardly giving up.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside Khamenei's Police State]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton examines what the Green Revolution is up against-from the organized violence of the Baij paramilitary, to torture and forced confessions, and even bullet fees charged to relatives of those executed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Explosive Videos From Tehran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Iranian government may have banned foreign journalists from covering protests, but that hasn't stopped a flood of user-generated videos-many quite disturbing-from hitting the Internet.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Photos of the Clashes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As streams of people pour into the streets of Tehran each day in protest of the presidential elections, harrowing images of an increasingly bloody revolt continue to emerge. VIEW OUR PHOTOS.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guide to Iran's Power Players]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The battle between pro-democracy activists and the hardline regime over President Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory is the culmination of years of tension between a variety of powerful leaders.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deadly Protests in Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A protester throws rocks at Iranian riot police in Tehran on June 21, 2009.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:19:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's Revolutionary Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ardalan, journalist, co-founder of the Women's Cultural Centre, and leader in the One Million Signatures Campaign, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2007 for "threatening national security" with her campaign for women's rights. Four other...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:03:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Farah Pahlavi, Iran's Exiled Queen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Portrait of Farah Dibah, who is now exiled queen of Iran, as the fiance of the Shah.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:21:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iranian Recount Underway]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Iranian authorities are moving full speed ahead with damage control. In an attempt to placate protesters, the Associated Press reports that on Monday, Iranian officials began a recount of 10 percent of the ballots from the disputed presidential...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:53:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[3,000 Protesters Take to Streets]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The stillness in Iran lasted five days--but protesters are out in full force again. Up to 3,000 protesters marched near a mosque in north Tehran on Sunday, fighting against riot police armed with tear gas and truncheons. Because of the extremely...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Laura Bush: Remember Burma]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It may be the one getting all of the media's attention, but Iran isn't the only country with a crackdown. Former first lady Laura Bush takes to the op-ed page of The Washington Post to draw attention to the worsening situation in Burma where, she...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran Arrests British Embassy Staff]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Has the trouble in Iran just become an international crisis? The Iran government has reportedly imprisoned eight local workers from the British Embassy in Tehran.  The government accuses them of playing a "significant role" in fomenting protest. On a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad Pipes Up Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[And the verbal spat continues: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck back at President Obama on Saturday for praising protesters who showed "bravery in the face of brutality." Ahmadinejad responded to Obama's comments-which also called the current...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:51:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dictators Fear Iran News]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nothing to see here, folks. Authoritarian regimes around the globe are censoring internet reports of Iranian protests out of fear it could antagonize their own repressed citizenry, the Washington Post reports. In China, bloggers and Twitter users have...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:25:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Scoffs at Ahmadinejad]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The day after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded that President Obama "show your repentance," Obama advised Ahmadinejad "to consider looking at the families of those beaten or shot or detained. That's where Mr. Ahmadinejad and others need to answer their...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Protesters 'Worthy of Execution']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The rhetoric continues to worsen in Iran: A leading cleric declared in a nationally broadcast sermon on Friday that some of the country's reform leaders are "worthy of execution." The Associated Press reports that "Iran's ruling clergy has widened its...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran Officials Declare Election Fair]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cutting off yet another avenue that Iranian protesters hoped could yield results, Iran's Guardian Council said Friday that no significant fraud had taken place in this month's disputed elections. "The Guardian council has almost finished reviewing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mousavi Speaks Out]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For the first time, Iranian opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi spoke out about being isolated and pressured by authorities to withdraw his challenge to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested presidential win. USA Today reports that 70 university...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Doctor in Neda Video Speaks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Although he may have put himself in jeopardy by doing so, the Iranian doctor who tried to save Neda's life has come out to address her final moments.  Dr. Arash Hejazi, who is studying at a university in England, revealed his identity as one of the men...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad Takes On Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The "when in doubt, blame America" strategy got Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this far, so why stop now? The Iranian president whose disputed re-election ignited the current unrest in Tehran went after President Obama in an interview with an Iranian news agency,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Another Day of Violent Protests]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Another violent day in Iran: A rally of as many as 2,000 people today is the subject of numerous contradictory reports, as many blogs have posted video and tweets that paint a picture of a brutal, violent crackdown by 500 government forces. The...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Another Day, Another Crackdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Another violent day in Iran: The Associated Press reports that "Protesters clashed with riot police again today around&nbsp;Iran's parliament, as&nbsp;Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneisaid the country won't annul the results of last week's disputed...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain, Obama Feud Over Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's McCain vs. Obama all over again, and pundits can't get enough. A vocal critic of Obama's Iran policy, McCain may have been a target when Obama accused his Iran policy detractors of partisan bickering, noting "only I'm the president of the United...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is the Crackdown Working?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things are looking troubling in Tehran: According to Reuters, "riot police and Basij militia appeared to have largely quelled mass protests against the June 12 poll." Also, a conservative candidate, who originally disputed the election results,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:07:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secret Police Guard Mousavi]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mir Hossein Mousavi will not be speaking to his millions of supporters anytime soon if the Iranian secret police have anything to say about it. Mousavi is under 24-hour guard, and must be "careful what he says," according to Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who has...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad's August Inauguration]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ignoring the protests of millions of its own citizens, Iran's parliament has pledged to inaugurate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president by mid-August, the LA Times reports. The announcement is another blow to reformist protesters, who already suffered the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: World 'Appalled']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In case there was any doubt, demonstrators in Iran can now strongly be sure that President Obama is on their side: He pronounced himself "appalled and outraged" by the "threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days." "I strongly condemn...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama to Condemn Iran Abuses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama's critics are getting what they asked for: He will host a press conference at 12:30 on Tuesday in order to condemn the Iranian government's use of violence against protesters. The president has so far avoided any strongly worded...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports that Iran has imposed life bans from the sport on the players on its national soccer team who recently sported green wristbands in a World Cup qualifier. Four players have been "retired," while the fates of two others who wore the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran Charging Bullet Fee]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A family in Iran whose son was caught and killed in the protests' crossfire Saturday was asked to pay the equivalent of $3,000 for the bullet used by security forces, The Wall Street Journal reports. 19-year-old Kaveh Alipour, who was engaged to marry...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:18:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Closer Look at Mousavi]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The writer of a Newsweek article profiling Iran's opposition presidential candidate has been detained without charge by Iranian authorities. Maziar Bahari's article, entitled "Anyone but Ahmadinejad," was published last month and contains rare personal...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:56:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[General Strike in Iran?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to Twitter feeds from inside Iran, protesters are planning a general strike Tuesday in an attempt to cripple the government. No news of the strike is on either Mousavi's Facebook page or website, but it is rumored he will soon throw his...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:34:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Protesters Will Face Trial]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ayatollah Khamenei's lengthy address to the nation on Friday turned out to be a hard-line call for vigilante justice from the Basij militia, as well as an ominous promise to brutally punish protesters swept up in the oppression. Now, Iran's judiciary...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Police Attack Neda's Mourners]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[
Despite having acknowledged fraud in the vote tallies in 50 cities, Iranian authorities are following through on Ayatollah Khamenei's pledge to not tolerate further protests. According to the Lede, an aggressive crackdown on what appeared to be only...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:28:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will 'Neda's' Death Inspire Revolution?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The viral video of a young woman's death on the streets of Iran-some have nicknamed her Neda, Farsi for the voice-may become the iconic image of the Iranian demonstrations. An article in Time looks at its possible political consequences, noting that...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:07:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guardian Council Downplays Fraud]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A change in opinion from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his inner circle? The Guardian Council, which implements the supreme leader's decrees, has admitted that the number of votes tallied after the June 12 presidential election in 50...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:13:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-Leader's Family Briefly Detained]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By throwing himself headfirst into the turmoil racking his country, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may have irreparably damaged his image as a spiritual arbiter of Iranian political and cultural life, The New York Times reports. The...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:37:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jailed Journalists in Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Iranian government crackdown on the media appears harsher than initially believed: 24 journalists and bloggers have been jailed in the country, including an Iranian-Canadian journalist working for Newsweek. Maziar Bahari was detained without...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Leave Iran to the Iranians]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As experts clash on how to deal with Iran's turmoil, Leslie H. Gelb says Obama is right to keep his distance-this is what Iranians want, and they have smart, sophisticated reasons for it.
Iranian hardliners just can't wait for President Barack Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:17:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memo from the Streets of Tehran, Part III]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Arash Aryan has not been silent or quiet. He has been on the streets and with a power and poignancy that is now becoming familiar. Parvez Sharma presents his latest report from Tehran, today on the day everything might have changed. 
Plus, read more...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Parvez Sharma]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:40:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stay Out of It, Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Critics have urged Obama to "go green," to side with Iranian protesters more vocally. But in an exclusive interview, one of Iran's most high-profile opposition clerics, Mohsen Kadivar, tells The Daily Beast that the reformers don't want any help. He...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:41:22 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eyewitness Account: "My Brother Was Beaten"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As violence flares in Tehran, The Daily Beast's Parvez Sharma spoke over Yahoo! Chat with a young Iranian journalist and Mousavi supporter who says she was arrested at the protests today and released. She describes the fresh violence--including a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Parvez Sharma]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:18:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marked for Death by Twitter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Social-networking sites are being celebrated as conduits for information out of Iran. But with the supreme leader vowing to punish dissidents, these digital footprints could prove deadly. 
After a week in which masses of protesters endured brutal...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eric Pape]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:32:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memo From the Streets of Tehran, Part II]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As demonstrations challenge Iranian authority, Parvez Sharma sends a new on-the-ground dispatch via a friend enmeshed in the Tehran protests: Some are fearful, but there's a sense in the crowd that victory is within reach.
Plus, read more insight on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Parvez Sharma]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:01:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iranians to Obama: Hush]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-17/iranians-to-obama-hush/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Lipstick Jihad author Azadeh Moaveni says protesters in Tehran have a surprising view on Obama's silence: Keep it up.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast writers. 
Even during subdued times,  Iranians tend to have...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Azadeh Moaveni]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:19:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Twitter Strategy]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-19/support-twitter-to-support-iran/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[While the Obama administration has been relatively quiet on Iran, the State Department has been promoting democracy by protecting demonstrators' access to Web sites like Twitter.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ariel Kastner]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:18:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Iranians See on TV]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When Iranians turn to state-owned media, they get "reporting" far detached from their own experience. Alex Vatanka, a Middle East analyst for Jane's, on the bias and Iranians' alternative options.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Alex Vatanka]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:06:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Obama Won't Talk Tough]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-17/obamas-anti-bush-iran-policy/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The easiest way to demonize the reformers in Iran, a senior administration official tells The Daily Beast's Richard Wolffe, is for the U.S. to align with them. Inside the Obama's PR strategy.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Richard Wolffe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:03:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Iran's Rulers Fear a Revote]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-18/why-irans-rulers-fear-a-revote/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ History and numbers explain the Iranian regime's fear of a revote, says pollster Douglas Schoen, who has seen three similarly fraudulent elections abroad. Mousavi would crush Ahmadinejad in a rematch.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Douglas Schoen]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:01:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memo From the Streets of Tehran]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-18/memo-from-the-streets-of-tehran/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As Iranians dispute the results of Friday's election, Parvez Sharma sends The Daily Beast an on-the-ground dispatch written by a friend enmeshed in the Tehran protests.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast writers. 
My...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Parvez Sharma]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:57:16 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Arab Media Is Covering Iran]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-17/media-battle-lines-drawn-on-iran-uprising/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As democratic media back Iran's opposition, it's a different story in authoritarian regimes. Salameh Nematt reports on journalists remaining in Iran and the overall political news war.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Salameh Nematt]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:04:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Iran's Hackers Killed Big Brother]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tehran's streets may be bloody, says Douglas Rushkoff, but the opposition has won the digital war. The battleground: Facebook and Twitter. The weapons: bandwidth and hacking. The prize: the end of totalitarianism.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Douglas Rushkoff]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:56:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Media Can Profit from Twitter's Big Week]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-17/the-media-can-profit-from-twitters-big-week/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ The micro-blogging service is leading the Iran election coverage and is even breaking big sports news. But its newfound dominance doesn't have to be bad news for traditional news organizations, says Larry Kramer. 
Plus, read more insight on Iran's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Larry Kramer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:56:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Whose Side Is Obama on?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-16/whose-side-is-obama-on/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[During the campaign, Obama pledged to meet any world leader "without preconditions." Now that Iran is in turmoil, he needs to go back on his word. 
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast writers. 
After a day of nonviolent...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:26:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Aid Mousavi]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama's no drama Iran mantra won't work, says former Reagan National Security Council member Raymond Tanter. He should skip over Mir Hossein Mousavi and instead back parties that are actually willing to overthrow the supreme leader.
Plus,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Raymond Tanter]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:59:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[@Revolution: Taking a Page from Khomeini's Playbook]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-17/revolution-taking-a-page-from-khomeinis-playbook/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini mastered the art of nonviolent confrontation to mobilize grassroots support and respond strategically to repression by the shah's regime. Can today's opposition learn from his feat? 
Plus, read more insight on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nasser Weddady]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:19:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Iran's Regime Cracking?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-16/is-irans-regime-cracking/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pillars of the Islamic Revolution are turning against the supreme leader and a massive, bloody security crackdown on the thousands of peaceful protesters is looking increasingly likely-leaving Obama with a huge dilemma.
Plus, read more insight on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Salameh Nematt]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former Iran Hostage: This Isn't a Revolution]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-15/former-iran-hostage-this-isnt-a-revolution/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Moorhead Kennedy was taken hostage in Iran in 1979 and watched the government crumble. He tells The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin about why regime change is unlikely this time around.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:39:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Tehran Under Siege]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In a dispatch from Tehran, Jason Rezaian describes the police beatings, flaming garbage cans, and rising sense of despair that have turned  his quiet neighborhood into a battleground.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jason Rezaian]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:32:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA['I Hope It Was Rigged']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Writing from Iran, university student Telmah Parsa surveys the post-election mood-from a friend who hopes the vote was rigged (because if it wasn't, Iran just re-elected Ahmadinejad) to his parents, who say the "irreligious hipsters" out protesting...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Telmah Parsa]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:03:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's Military Coup]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Iranian election was bald-faced election fraud, writes The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan, perpetrated by a powerful intelligence unit known as the Pasdaran. 
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast writers.
So let's get this...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reza Aslan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:18:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Twitter Breaks Strike News]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Protesters in Iran have been using social media to spread the word-and now reports are trickling in that Mousavi is calling for a massive "Green Revolution" strike tomorrow.
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast writers....]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:59:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary's Tricky Iran Game]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As evidence mounts that Ahmadinejad stole Iran's election, Hillary Clinton has notably avoided condemning the results. The Daily Beast's Leslie H. Gelb on why the Obama administration isn't closing any doors. 
Plus, read more insight on Iran's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:53:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harrowing Tweets from Iran]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-14/harrowing-tweets-from-iran/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ After the election, protesters flocked to Twitter and their immediate coverage of the violence proved embarrassing to CNN, which was slow to catch up. 
Plus, read more insight on Iran's election from other Daily Beast writers. 
As protests raged in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:19:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Absurd Outcome]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The main questions left after Ahmadinejad's surprising win is how much the vote was manipulated-and, asks Suzanne Maloney of the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution, whether Obama can possibly still pursue diplomacy as an option with a fractured...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Suzanne Maloney]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:45:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Ahmadinejad Could Still Lose]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-10/why-ahmadinejad-just-might-lose/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[While incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declares victory, runner-up candidate says it's fraud. Iranian university student Telmah Parsa on the divergent groups-Iran's young hipsters versus their deeply religious parents-that may have...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Telmah Parsa]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:28:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's Hillary Clinton]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once an anti-shah activist in a miniskirt, Zahrah Rahnavard is now a feminist in a chador. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and longtime Mideast correspondent Geraldine Brooks on how Rahnavard could revolutionize the role of first lady if her husband wins...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Geraldine Brooks]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:34:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's Riveting Political Drama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ No matter who wins on Friday, this election season has been unlike any other in Iran, with Twittering political rallies, rancorous televised debates-and a challenger that has Ahmadinejad lifting pages from Obama's playbook. The Daily Beast hits the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reza Aslan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:32:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Has Iran Boosted Twitter's Value?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world is raving about the Twitter revolution, but the attention hasn't made the microblog any more profitable. Lucas Conley on how a global news coup won't change Twitter's sticker price.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lucas Conley]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:50:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Neda Divided My Family]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-22/how-neda-divided-my-family/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Not everyone believes the shocking video of a woman shot in Tehran. Telmah Parsa writes from Iran on why many Iranians-including his mother-refuse to accept the horrific video tells the whole truth.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Telmah Parsa]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:52:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Inner Neocon]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president's denunciation of the Iranian regime Tuesday showed his potential get to get tough, writes Reihan Salam. But to deal with the mullahs, Obama must embrace the Reagan within.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:29:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What 1970's Iran Taught Me About Today's]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-24/use-islam-to-end-the-iranian-regime/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, Iranians used Islam as a catalyst to overthrow the shah. Nazee Moinian, who lived through that revolution, on how the protesters on the streets of Tehran can use religion to bring down the current leadership.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nazee Moinian]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:54:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unrest Continues in Tehran ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Protesters continue to defy the police and military in Tehran. In this video, the crowds can be heard chanting "Allahu Akbar" or "God is great."  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:29:22 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Dismisses Ahmadinejad]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/obama-scoffs-at-ahmadinejad/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[At a press conference Friday with the German chancellor, Obama says he isn't taking Ahmadinejad's demands for an apology seriously.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:52:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Candlelight Vigil in Tehran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This moving footage shows a candlelight vigil outside of Tehran University, honoring those who have been killed during the election protests in Iran.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:55:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blood on a Sidewalk of Tehran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. In this video uploaded to YouTube on June 23, a group of Iranians, one of them kneeling, look at a pool of blood left on the sidewalk. We cannot fact check the content of this video. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:20:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[To the President, From Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At his press conference, President Obama took an email query from an Iranian citizen. It may have been the best question of the afternoon. Source: CNN ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:38:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Riot Police Flee Protest]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From the streets of Tehran: riot police (in khaki in the foreground) can be seen fleeing in front of a large protest. More Daily Beast coverage of Iran here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:02:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[June 20 Tehran Protests]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:46:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Women Beaten in Iran Protest]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The violence continues in Iran. In this latest clip uploaded to YouTube, a young woman is beaten with clubs while protesting in the streets of Iran. More Daily Beast coverage of Iran here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:22:22 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former Iranian Prince Breaks Down]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Iran's former crown prince Reza Pahlavi speaking on the political unrest the country at the National Press Club, breaks down in tears as he describes the violence. CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:36:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[George Will: Keep Iran Rhetoric in Check]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Will takes a few shots at Republicans who are calling on the White House to condemn Iran. His example of what not to do? Hungary, 1956, when the U.S. encouraged revolution but could provide no tangible support.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:17:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Still Not Meddling]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Those hoping Obama will condemn Iran may have to keep waiting: He tells CBS News that doesn't want to meddle, but believes Americans can bear witness to the struggle. Plus, a laugh at Harry Smith's question on Korea. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:10:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gibbs: Pundits Don't Dictate Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs tells reporters that the president was 'moved' by images coming out of Iran, and that he will not make foreign policy decisions based on pressure from pundits. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:41:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guide to Iran's Power Players]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The battle between pro-democracy activists and the hardline regime over President Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory is the culmination of years of tension between a variety of powerful leaders. Who are the major players in the standoff?]]></description>
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