CNN's T.J. Holmes talks to journalist Nick Schmidle about whether Iran means changing U.S. national security priorities. Link to video
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Nicholas Thompson from Wired magazine explains Twitter's role in Iran during the post-election unrest, even as some means of communication are blocked by the government. Link to video
"This anti-Ahmadinejad image is connecting with a lot of Iranians because many feel Ahmadinejad has gone too far, said too many outlandish things and is responsible for a serious financial crisis the country is in," said Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow ...
"The Iranian-American community is hungry for all news and information coming out of Iran," Afshin Molavi told CNN on Tuesday in a telephone interview. Molavi was born in Iran but grew up in the West. He is affiliated with the New America Foundation, ...
In a poll conducted three weeks before Iran's June 12 vote, our nonprofit organizations found a consensus among Iranians, including almost all of those who told us they would vote for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And that consensus is that Iranians want a truly democratic system.
Given Iranians' own priorities for their government, the events of the past few days may ultimately weaken President Ahmadinejad's standing -- even among those who did vote to re-elect him.
"We have really an interesting moment of historic irony here," Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, said on the CNN talk show Fareed Zakaria GPS. "Moussavi is a child of the revolution. Moussavi was never a real reformer, either, ...
Reza Aslan, Afshin Molavi, and Nicholas Burns discuss the Iranian elections and what the outcome could mean. Link to video
"This anti-Ahmadinejad image is connecting with a lot of Iranians because many feel Ahmadinejad has gone too far, said too many outlandish things and is responsible for a serious financial crisis the country is in," said Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow ...
CNN Security Analyst Peter Bergen says the tape "speaks for itself." "I think what's interesting about the tape is that it appears to be made several weeks ago. ... The bin Laden tape was not made to kind of upstage the Cairo speech. ...
CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen says an unstable Pakistan is more dangerous than an unstable Afghanistan. The militants said they took control of the Buner district to ensure that Islamic law, or sharia, is properly imposed. ...
