Iran Reports – June 27, 2009

(Iran) U.S. Officials: Iran Opposition Leader’s Web Site Shut Down, Supporters ‘Tortured’ Into Confessions
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529267,00.html?test=latestnews

Iran’s security council tells Moussavi to back off
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/26/iran.election.moussavi/index.html

CNN: Iran Election Fallout
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/iran.elections/

Iran bans Mousavi ally from leaving the country
— “Abolfazl Fateh, head of Mousavi’s media office”
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLR12028420090627

Amnesty: Iran journalists should be freed
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/27/Amnesty-Iran-journalists-should-be-freed/UPI-97011246107981/

(Iran) What will become of Iran’s “stiletto revolution” now?
— “In a country where the repression of women’s rights is the norm, and where Muslim extremists brutally
enforce the state’s requirement that women dress modestly at all times, the contribution of Iran’s women
to the anti-government protests has been pivotal to maintaining the reform movement’s momentum in the
face of the Islamic regime’s increasingly viscous response”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651664/What-will-become-of-Irans-stiletto-revolution-now.html

Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks President Barack Obama for “interfering” in election
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5663401/Irans-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-President-Barack-Obama-for-interfering-in-election.html

CNN: “‘Punished mercilessly’ — Is this Islam?”
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/27/punished-mercilessly-is-this-islam/