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Exhibit A: Word From Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Thriller, Underground Railroad, Media, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Journalism, World News, Shi’ite, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election, Tehran, Neda, Iran Protests, Iranian Election 2009, Media News
Melody Moezzi

Reporters keep complaining about the difficulty of getting information out of Iran, but communicating with Iran is far from a challenge. I frequently get through on the first try.

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Iran's Underground Railroad

Melody Moezzi | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Underground Railroad, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World News, Shi’ite, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election, Tehran, Neda, Iran Protests, Iranian Election 2009, World News
Melody Moezzi

The Iranian Underground Railroad isn't meant to move people from one area of the country to another, it is an attempt to create shelter and make way for freedom.

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Iran Now Harder To Bomb: Commentary

GlobalPost | Michael Moran | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Protests, Postelection Violence, Iranian Election, Violence Iran, Tehran, Iran Election, US and Iran, Ahmadinejad, Us Iran, Iran, World News

NEW YORK -- In the weeks since moderate Iranians threw down the gauntlet to the conservative clerics who run their lives, Israel has watched the unf...

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King of Pop

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Little Richard, Michael Jackson Death, Afghanistan, Princess Diana, Iran Election, Elvis, James Brown, Iran Protests, Michael Jackson Dies, Tehran, Elvis Presley, North Korea, Iran Election Protests, Entertainment News
Joe Peyronnin

Americans love their shooting stars. Stars who demand attention, win affection and adulation, and then prematurely burn out.

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Iran and the C.I.A

Tom Gabbay | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Ayatollah, Islamic Republic of Iran, Cia, President Obama, US-Iran Relations, Jimmy Carter, Tehran, Iran, Supreme Leader, Operation Ajax, Ayatollah Khomeini, Wolf Blitzer, World News
Tom Gabbay

This revolution, if that's what it is, can only come from the Iranian people. The US must remain on the sidelines; a spectator to what could be a game changer in the Middle East and beyond.

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Get to the Doctor, Dr. Ahmadinejad!

Melody Moezzi | Posted 07.01.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Iranian Election, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian Election 2009, Twelver, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Protests, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Medicine, Shi’ite, Satire, Tehran, Mental Illness, World News
Melody Moezzi

I'm the last person to take any mental health issues lightly, but when it comes to racking up crazy points, Dr. Ahmadinejad wins the prize.

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The Ayatollah's Curse

Eric Margolis | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Iran, Cia, Iran Election, Barack Obama, World News
Eric Margolis

Almost every American president who has gotten involved in Iran has had his fingers burned. So the cautious President Obama is advised an excess of caution when dealing with Iran.

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Iran: One Revolution at a Time

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Revolution, Iran Obama, Shah, Iran Protests, Iran, Tehran, Obama, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranians, Robert Allison, World News
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Today's protests are different. This is not about the West. It is about which revolutionary political camp will prevail in 2009 and a path that rejects the "secularism versus political Islam" dichotomy.

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Poetry Of The Revolution

John Lundberg | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Iran Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmad Shamlu Iran National Poet, Rumi, Tehran Protests, Iran, Tehran, Neda, Poetry, John Lundberg, Ahmad Shamlu, Poetic Life, The Poetic Life, Living News
John Lundberg

One of the most powerful videos to come out of the turmoil in Iran is of a woman reciting a poem from the rooftops of Tehran at night. Recorded on the eve of the first wave of violent crackdowns against protesters, the poem gives voice to the inner turmoil of a people coping with a sudden and potentially violent revolution and struggling with a new conception of their homeland.

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Letter From Paris: Other Conversations Coming Out of Iran

Beth Arnold | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Englishbaby.com, Twitter, Iran, Tehran, Jason Simms, Facebook, Social Networking, World News
Beth Arnold

While Twitter and Facebook have been mentioned in the media for circumventing censorship, Iranians are turning to smaller networks as well, especially one where all the content is in English.

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Women, Courage, & Dignity

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Nazi Occupation of France, Women, Iran, World War II, The French Resistance, Jacqueline PéRy, Tehran, World News
Elizabeth Debold

Hearing this young Iranian woman's words made me realize the power of women standing for a principle that will create a new future, not just ensure the survival of what has been.

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What Should President Obama do? Letter Responses From Iran

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Election, Iran, Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Voice of America, The Green Revolution, World News
Sam Sedaei

The best way for us to know what kind of stance Iranians want President Obama to take is to ask them directly.

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CNN's iReport Had 1 Million Page Views on Monday: Iran Crisis is "Enormous Moment in Citizen Journalism" (Video)

Andy Plesser | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Television News, Tehran, Iran, Online Journalism, Cnn, Media News
Andy Plesser

CNN's iReport popularity as a destination has surged with the Iran crisis. A CNN spokeswoman told me that page views for the iReport reached 1 million on Monday

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Clueless in Iran: America's Déjà Vu All Over Again

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Paris, Islamic Revolution, CBS News, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, Tehran, World News
Joan Z. Shore

Almost 31 years ago the Ayatollah Khomeini was granted asylum in France. As a junior correspondent in Paris, I was sent out with a camera crew to interview Khomeini.

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Learning from Iran's Past Revolutions

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: June 12, Iranian Revolution, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Uprising, Mosque, Mobilization, Iranian Election, The Green Revolution, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Constitutional Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Revolution, Social Protest, Bazaar, Islamic Revolution, 1979, Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tobacco Portest, World News
Nathan Gonzalez

If the uprising can grow to include the massive bazaars of Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan and Shiraz, it is hard to imagine how Ayatollah Khamenei would not change his tune, or even be forced to step aside.

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Letter From Paris: Help Find an Iranian Photographer!

Beth Arnold | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Twitter, Demonstrations in Tehran, Tehran-Iran, Photographer Missing in Tehran, World News
Beth Arnold

A photographer recording the protests has gone missing in Tehran. Help find him: we need to stand with the Iranian people -- in whatever way possible.

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Nsa, Holocaust, Department of Defense, Doubleday, Mossad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Intelligence Community, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Strangelove, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Internet, Cia, Regime Change, Institute of World Politics, Tehran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Espionage, World News
Keith Thomson

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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Power and Protest, in Iran and at Home

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.23.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Bani-Sadr, Cairo, Bush, Moussavi, Revolution, 1979, Obama, Iran, Tehran, Rafsanjani, Farhang, Ahmadinejad, Election, World News
Jesse Larner

American conservatives who believe that any resistance to tyranny somehow must carry an American trademark would do well to remind themselves that theocracy is incompatible with liberal democracy.

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Iran and America: The Spirit of 1908

John Ghazvinian | Posted 06.23.2009 | World

Read More: Constitutional Revolution, Iran, 1908, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Russia, Britain, Twitter, Shah of Iran, Evangelical Christians, Cossacks, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Federalist Papers, Barack Obama, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morgan Shuster, Islamic Republic of Iran, Basij, Regime Change, Middle East, Iran Protests, Protest, Tehran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tea Party, World News
John Ghazvinian

Is 101 years a bit far to go back to help us understand what's happening today? Not in Iran.

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Netroots Mutates: Digital Rascals and the Iran Election

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Palo Alto, Iran Election, Netroots, Edinburgh, Democracy, Iran, Tehran, Shaquille O'Neal, Clay Shirky, Facebook, Barack Obama, Media News
Pablo Manriquez

What was once a hopeful demand becomes a site-busting tsunami, a brute digital force veiled in Mousavi green.

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Ayatollah: Green Twitter Avatars 'Number One Threat' to Regime

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Tehran, Iran, Andy Borowitz, Twitter, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Green Twitter Avatars, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Khamenei said that Iran's government had stared down many challenges to its authority since the 1979 revolution, but none have been as "terrifying and intimidating" as the ubiquitous green avatars.

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An Exclusive Interview with a Pro-Ahmadinejad Cleric in Qom, Iran

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 06.23.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Twitter, Judaism, Iran Election, Shia, Iran, Supreme Leader, Media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Facebook, Khatami, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Qom, Youtube, Tehran, Zionism, Neda, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

A recurring theme in many of the cleric's answers is his very strong belief that "foreign" Western powers, particularly England, are behind the current unrest in Tehran

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Guardian Council Rules Out Vote Annulment In Iran

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 06.23.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Election, Iranian Election, Iran Election 2009, Guardian Council, Guardian Council Vote Annulment, Iran, Iran Protests 2009, Twitter Revolution, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Neda, Neda Soltan, Neda Agha, Who Is Neda, Neda Video, Tehran, Twitter, Neda Agha Soltan Video, Neda Agha Soltan., Video of Neda, Neda Agha Soltan,, Caspian Makan, World News

CAIRO — Overwhelmed by police and left with limited alternatives, Iranian demonstrators resorted Tuesday to more subtle ways of challenging the ...

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Iran's Fine Green Line Between a People's Right to Protest and Violence

Patt Cottingham | Posted 06.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Human Rights, Youth, Death, Green, Women's Rights, Freedom, Barack Hussein Obama, Citizen Reporters, Martin Luther King, Internet, Mir Hussein Moussavi, Tehran, Change, Father, Neda Agha Soltan, Sacrafice, Living News
Patt Cottingham

Although the US is a nation of immigrants that came here to escape repressive regimes or governments, as a society, we have largely forgotten what it is like to put our lives on the line to call forth change.

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Iran's Revolution: A Hard and Uncertain Path

Howard Schweber | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

Read More: Protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Opposition, Tehran, World News
Howard Schweber

How long can the opposition sustain itself? Four, five, or six weeks from now, will the protests still continue? Will the world still be watching Youtube videos being recycled on CNN?

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