@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.

Steven Miles is a prominent bioethicist and a trenchant voice and prominent leader in the fight to expose the complicity of medical professionals in the post-9/11 torture program initiated by the Bush administration. Dr. Miles is the author of Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and also on the Board of the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis. Oath Betrayed reveals how "medical professionals cooperated with all phases of coercive interrogation in Iraq, at Guantánamo, and in Afghanistan."

Obama edges a bit further off the sidelines regarding the Iranian post-election protests: "I'm very concerned, based on some of the tenor and tone of the statements that have been made, that the government of Iran recognize that the world is watching."

"It's not politically smart, but morally it's the right thing to do," Ghaemi concluded

My interview with Akbar Ganji