Elections & Political Parties

ZAKARIA: So, take me through this option. You have Khatami, the former president, two-term president, not backing down. Rafsanjani, a former president, the very important leader of the Assembly of Experts not backing down. Larijani, the speaker of the parliament, not backing down. Can the regime really crack down? I mean, it can arrest people on the street, and it can arrest journalists like Maziar. But what does it do with these very powerful people who have now defied it?

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Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, the one criticism heard perhaps more than any other from Republicans was about the cult of veneration that had developed around Barack Obama. He was the “second coming,” the Democrats’ “messiah,” a preening “celebrity,” the political ads joked. But the GOP might have been on to something. For Democrats and their ambitious domestic agenda, it’s all about Obama.

Steve Clemons, an analyst at the New America Foundation, a policy research institute in Washington, said the situation exposes the confines of Obama's approach to foreign affairs. “Obama is in a bind because he's realizes that to some degree he is seen ...

CNN's T.J. Holmes talks to journalist Nick Schmidle about whether Iran means changing U.S. national security priorities. Link to video Embedded video from CNN Video

Nicholas Schmidle comments on Mousavi's call for continued protests Link to audio

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

The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples' belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness. Steve Clemons sees an Obama shift on how to respond to Iran with notable Joe Biden ...

Steve Clemons, director of New America Foundation's American Strategy program, discusses the violent protests in Iran. Link to audio