I regularly check Andrew Sullivan, who says he's blogging from the end of a pier in Cape Cod (sigh) and Nico Pitney at Huffpo. They both link to other sources, if you're that keen.
Pitney recommends this NYT piece. So do I.
In essence, the core of the struggle is between two competing views of what this country’s Islamic revolution sought to achieve.
“One side wants a gradual evolution of democratic institutions and a more democratic reading of Islamic institutions,” said Kavous Seyed-Emami, a political science professor at Imam Sadeq University in Tehran. “The other side is for a populist and more or less authoritarian reading of Islam.”
Last I read, Obama will have a live statement in about an hour.
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