Given that so many US leftists support the protesters I imagine the expression of their love these days is rather restrained!
Here is a blogger who discusses the evidence for irregularities in the election. (For Canadians he also has an elaborate spoof using some of the same types of arguments used by the Mousavi group to show that Brian Mulroney a former prime minister rigged an election he won)
http://hosertohoosier.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-defence-of-iran.html
Another article on the issue can be found here:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22888.htm
Cheers, k hanly
Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] PressTV
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 1:40 PM
>
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:03 PM, ken hanly wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what the status of this website is?
> Is it state owned or state controlled or is it independent
> to a degree. Skimming through the articles it looks to
> follow official lines on the whole but in the comments
> section it seems completely uncensored with scurrilous
> comments of all types pro and anti Iran.
> > The following post gives a favorable
> impression of the Obama administration but slams the US on
> privacy in general:
> >
> > http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=98852§ionid=3510203
>
> It's run by the Iranian state, but it's reasonably
> independent. They did a profile of me the other week. They
> love American leftists. My sense is that the network is
> staffed by "liberals," but their freedom of expression is
> constrained.
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