Michael Calderone is bitching that Nico Pitney asked what the White House correctly anticipated was going to be a question on Iran. Since when is it a scandal that the reporter doing the best job on a subject gets asked about that subject?

Certainly seems to be taking a harder line, but undoubtedly, won't be hard enough for the neocon anklebiters.

For Richard Cohen, it's always something.

Based on a true story, The Stoning of Soraya M. paints with horrifying clarity how women are disposable chattel in certain societies. Soraya’s husband wishes to divorce to her, she refuses, so he and the local mullah hatch a plot to accuse her of adultery. In the aftermath of the accusation, Soraya’s brutal murder by stoning, and the conspiracy surrounding it, the truth is revealed. It is painfully coincidental to be discussing this moving feature within days of the shooting of Neda in Tehran, a young woman who was watching demonstrations next her father when a Basiji militiaman shot her through the heart.

@TehranBureau reports. . .

Anyone who is the least bit familiar with the intertwined history of Iran and the United States -- such as every Iranian over the age of five -- knows the following: We toppled their last actual leader who was actually elected, Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, back in the 1950s because he dared to nationalize their oil industry.

'If the large volume of cheating and vote rigging, which has set fire to the hays of people’s anger, is expressed as the evidence of fairness, the republican nature of the state will be killed and in practice, the ideology that Islam and Republicanism are incompatible will be proven.'

My two Sunday colleagues raise the specter of slavery and The Great Depression respectively. My goal is far more modest; it is to point out why Twitter won the week, but is losing the war in Iran. The reality is that Twitter is a top down medium; and it magnifies, rather than challenges, the top down society.

The global community has been galvanized by the tweets, Facebook, cellphone pictures, and reports from Iran. Now comes this video of a young a woman shot in Tehran by Basiji police force.

People are debating whether we ought to meddle in Iran or not. But we already have.