June 12 Is The One Year Anniversary Of Last Year's Elections In Iran And Subsequent Riots

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi among supporters at a huge protest on the streets of Tehran on Monday, June 15, 2009. Behrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A Year After Its Rise, Iranian Protest Movement Stymied And In Disarray -- Washington Post

TEHRAN -- When office clerks, housewives, students and other urban Iranians took to the streets a year ago to protest what they said was massive election fraud by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, they hailed the birth of a leaderless popular movement that embodied their aspirations for a more open society.

"We are all together" became a favorite slogan of the Green Movement, which sprang to life last year after Ahmadinejad was proclaimed the landslide winner of the June 12 presidential election. Defeated opposition candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who quickly turned into figureheads, said it was not they, but ordinary Iranians, who were leading the massive anti-government demonstrations that followed the vote. There was no agenda other than a demand for new elections; no goal other than the departure of Ahmadinejad.

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More News On The First Anniversary Of The Iranian Protests

Iran opposition calls off election anniversary rally -- L.A. Times
Iran Opposition Leaders Cancel Mass Protests -- Christian Science Monitor
Iranian Opposition Leaders Call Off Protest -- New York Times

Iran a year on after the controversial election -- BBC
One year later, Iran protesters fight on -- CNN
Iran's defiant Green movement vows to fight on -- The Guardian

Former elite officers reveal tensions in Iran regime -- The Guardian
Iran protests bigger threat than Iraq war-Guard -- Reuters
Iran unrest ‘more dangerous’ than Iraq war -- Financial Times

Iran—One Year After the Disputed Election and Violent Crackdown -- Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
How the West Can Help Iran's Green Movement -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Wall Street Journal
The Great Revolution That Wasn’t -- Hooman Majd, Newsweek
Iran’s Green Movement: One Year Later -- Juan Cole, CBS opinion
Iran's Green Movement has been betrayed by its leaders -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph