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for republicans, 202-737-0001. for democrats, 202-737-0002. for independents, 202-628-0205. time magazine, iran verses iran. that is the cover story. from the washington times, violence erupted in protest. from "the new york times," this story and photograph that has been getting a lot of attention over the last 24 hours. "mir hossein mousavi called for a general strike. if arrested, he said that he would be ready for bardem. opposition protesters swore to continue pressing claims of a

stolen election. this has been called iran's worst crisis since 1979." from "the washington post," their focus on the media coverage and conflicting accounts coming out. suggesting that mr. mir hossein mousavi was taking a confrontational stance. waiting to hear from you on what is next from iran, the first person is joe on the republican line. massachusetts. caller: unfortunately i think this will be a massacre. there is no other option for the ruling elite in iran. this is a great opportunity for us to get hold of those nuclear weapons in iran.

host: ted, democratic line. good morning. caller: thank you for c-span. i think that this is going to be a case of natural evolution. we do not know yet halthat the ayatollahs will not seize control in a hardline wave. if not this week, next week, maybe even next year, but people change in iran like i feel that would have changed in iraq. this is almost a statement of how mistaken our former president and defense secretary were when they undertook the war in iraq. ultimately, iran will go in a way that will be more humane. i hope that it not -- it does

not take 20 years. host: this front page of "the new york times" photograph is from tehran. we have been monitoring video on youtube, some of it over the weekend. we are not absolutely certain of the dates. we will show you some of the pictures as we listen to john from maryland. caller: that democrat that just spoke, his analysis of the situation is totally wrong. i think that the iranians, if they are able to overthrow the regime, a huge amount of credit should be given to george bush. he would have completely transformed the region. potentially we would that had a new ally in iran. iranians are persian.

they are very try ballistic in the middle east. they think that they are better than arabs. given a free election, they want the same thing. i do not think that they would have been doing this before. if iran overthrows the regime, which little by little looks like it might have been, i think that a lot of credit should go to george bush. i think that is something that democrats would want to think about. host: these pictures from tehran and elsewhere, courtesy of youtube, the caller mentioned a former president bush. he delivered a speech this past week.

he offered his first public, veiled criticism of his successors administration, according to "the washington times." alabama, al, what is next? caller: this is new york. host: i should know that. caller: it is ok. a couple of points. first, this is what happens when you mix state and religion. this is the scenario. it will lead to frustration, eventually. i am still kind of in the era of this. i do not see any signs saying freedom and democracy, i just see where is my vote. is this just an expression of

them wanting change from the old boss to the new boss? or do they really want their representative government, where they have a hand in choosing who represents different states or districts representing the citizens of the country? next there will be general strike across the country. bringing the economy to a standstill. unfortunately the price of freedom as always paid for in blood. we will see what comes from this. that is about it, steve. host: a number of editorials this morning. "the most syrians -- the most

serious challenge caught many leaders by surprise, intelligence agencies did little to prepare them for a catharsis, insisting on a combustible mixture of protesters and political opportunists against by a toilet khamenei -- ayatollah khamenei. caller: we have known in america for a long time that the people of iran are not represented by their government or the ayatollah. all of this calling it the access of the evil when we knew that we were oppressed -- i am praying for their safety. i know that it will be hard and i think we should stay out of it.

host: "the islamic resolution has used its oil wealth, exporting 2.1 million barrels per day to buy off huge swaths of the population with cheap housing, government jobs, and subsidized housing. the vast revolutionary guard has kept itself in power. can the green revolution, led by mir hossein mousavi and backed by street protesters, due to the islamic regime what the ayatollah in the iranian people did to the shah's regime? next caller, good morning. caller: after listening to the ayatollah and the speech about

being pious, mentioning that his man won by 11 million votes, we need to explain if it was ballot stuffing, or work the large number of people supporting the status quo? we need to back up and try to statement -- straighten out the comment that comes up again among small and middle eastern friends about the branch davidian, way back under the clinton administration, they think a week burned 80 people live and that americans are extremists. they fixate on this minor incident that may or may not have related actions taken by the attorney general. there is some evidence that

somebody in that compound set the fire themselves. that was brought up by a few of my friends in the middle east, and here it is in the news. this is the kind of stuff where we need to book movies to get to the middle east. the people in iran are very sophisticated. they're afraid to the united states government will invade and burn the home town. it has been used by propaganda all over the middle east. host: thank you for the call. we also will take your twitter messages here on c-span.

later this morning, our discussion with two veteran opinion makers and reporters. for this piece in the outlook section of "the washington post," "quitter in iran." "green flags and a brown shirts," from "the national review." "this is an islamic version of oppression like nazi germany hi. not so powerful, of course, but equally assertive pure " jerry, independent line -- assertive." jerry, independent line. caller: people getting a taste of freedom after being oppressed for such a long time, this dictator is not what they

want. i do not think that they want to get into a war, which is where this election is going. they just want to live as a free people. host: from inside of "the new york times," we showed to be twitter messages. "6 lessons learned. twitter associated with mass protests in the last couple of months. opposing the official results of the election, but does this twitter revolution oversell the technology? only a small number of people

use twittered. -- quitter. six lessons, rather than being a vast self-contained world centered on a web site, it dreams of being a tool that people can use to communicate with each other. buyer beware, nothing on twitter has been verified. users can learn from experience to trust certain accounts, it is still a matter of trust. it has also spread inaccurate information. more video that we are showing, most of it we believe to be from yesterday. some of it could be from yesterday. we asked a question, what is next for iran? good morning.

caller: thank you for c-span. i have enjoyed your show for years. this is my first time calling. i am a republican. that last caller, but there's a difference between republicans and bush lovers. if he sees what is going on in iraq and afghanistan as progress, he is sadly mistaken. i would love to see the iranian people get what they want. host: "the denver post" has the situation on the front page. also from the arizona "republic," police in iran, clashing in the streets.

caller: happy souls this. host: happy father's day. caller: this is an important day for the iranian people. we elected a ourselves a new president. if we could do something as remarkable as what we did, they have the courage to try themselves. i hope they can do something in an orderly fashion. i do not hear a particular set of demands. i do not think that they just want to tell things apart.

talk to you later. thanks. host: "keep dick cheney away from this before he starts another war." that is another twitter message. "this is a stark contrast from ray and's starring challenge," by oliver north. "clearly articulated course of action that began in the opening days of his administration. despite near unanimous opposition from the so-called mainstream media, he was always clear about what he thought would be best for our country. after last sunday's fatally flawed directions in iran, "i cannot state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election."

that was hardly a resounding statement of support for freedom." leonard, independent line. caller: my hands go up in hope for the people. that is the best way to go. that is something to do. host: from inside of the front page of "new york times -- from "the new york times," "security forces clashed with thousands of protesters." republican line, good morning. caller: how are you doing? i was a democrat all of my life. i became a republican during the presidential election. our president is not saying a word and these people are dying left and right.

i have supported freedom my entire life. we need out there and say something for these people that want to fight for freedom for their country. i am appalled. that is why i became a republican. i am appalled that he has not said something for these people. i watched the woman on your -- i could not believe how she was shot. i am sure that there are a lot more being killed. our president is now saying anything. host: what should he say? what do you want him to say? caller: you know what? we should go in there and get them. when i was a democrat my whole

life, of president bush, you know, when he was in office, he fought for democracy. that is what i see every day in this country. what he is not doing -- he is making it worse. he made it worse the other day by saying that these men are exactly the same. these women are coming out. i am not understanding what he is doing. he thinks that everything is going to go back to normal? it will not go back to normal. they will go out every single day and fight for freedom. he should go out and say fight for freedom. he should say fight for freedom, no? that is what he should be doing but he is now doing it.

host: thank you. you are looking at the video that we were able to download from youtube over the last couple of hours. much of it, we suspect, is from saturday. we cannot verify if it was saturday or earlier in the week. it does give you a sense of what has been happening in iran. going to the collar's point, this article, "the drama marks an interim in middle east history because the united states has decided not to intervene. the republican politicians charging president obama with failing to defend iranian freedom have totally missed the significance of what happened last week in tehran. what ever occurs next will not detract from this reality. the unprecedented in huge marches in tehran last week with demonstrators marching peacefully and sometime silently

for new and fair elections were organized by iranians themselves." "they know that iran is not poland or check was a lock yet, when they rebelled against the soviets. east europe has dissidents that all wanted u.s. intervention. iran is in the middle east where western intervention has a bad name." this is from a viewer, "could this be a cia sponsored color revolution? possibly a leftover bush project"? of this is the cover -- this is the cover of "time" magazine. adrian, good morning. caller: all of these people calling in, what is appalling to me is the fact that third-party

candidates that ran for president in this country were not able to get their voice. they were not able to participate in the presidential debates. host: thank you for the call. our thanks to "the new york times." they have been able to oppose these photographs on the web site. muriel is next, from hanover, pa.. caller: good morning. our you? host: fun, how are you? -- fine, how are you? caller: i am still surprise that the level of coverage in iran. we have seen more on them and we have seen iraq or afghanistan in eight years. why is the media so interested in one country when these other countries have our men in women dying in them.

this one woman cried about someone being killed in iran last week. the numbers for of iraqis and afghanistan these two are being killed are not reported -- afghanistanis being killed are not reported. do the viewers have any idea on the drum beats of other countries? places that are not run politically? host: iran, as a neighbor of iraq, is this not part of the equation? the future of israel, does this stuff all tied together? caller: you are right, but there are americans that need to be able to see not only what is going on in iran, but also israel, now that you bring it out. -- bring it up.

afghanistan, the taliban, it is not that this stuff does not go on, i am just wondering why the media chooses to focus only on iran when these other areas do in fact have significance. not only our blood, but our money is spent there. host: you can go to twitter.com/c-spanwj and send us your comments there. we will continue to talk about iran in our roundtable discussion with tony blankley and jon-christopher bua. we will talk about gordon brown and the labor party as well. st. louis, good morning. caller: this is the $500 million that was allocated to destabilize the iranian

government, it was given to the cia. how can you " oliver north? i do not hear him saying anything about tearing walls in gaza. why have we not seen any pictures of the white fox being dropped by the israelis. all we can all i have been hearing is this crap about iran. we have done everything that we need to to destabilize their government. we do not even have free and fair elections in this country. you americans have lost your mind. i am ashamed of this country. goodbye. host: kathryn, little rock. good morning. caller: we had elections stolen from us twice by bush. they did not protest because they were benefiting.

the people of iran, more power to them. host: alice, from georgia. good morning. caller: thank you for c-span. there is one thing that people are forgetting. iranians are using their own tactics, throwing rocks and burning things. they should remember how we blacks had to fight for our freedom back in the day. we were jailed, killed, and everything. we kept on fighting. that is what they have to do. president obama does not have to say anything. why would we get involved in this situation? these people must follow a pattern that martin luther king said. maybe they will get something done.

all those tactics they are using, throwing rocks, martin luther king did that do that. we did that do that at all. we marched peacefully. individually we sat in front of the bus. thank you. host: thank you for the call. in this twitter, "president obama speech in cairo and republicans say that he should worry about home. he rightly stays out of iran and now he should speak up"? in most of the leading newspapers, this story about the agreement between the white house and the drug industry. here are some of the details. "the pharmaceutical industry agreed to spend $80 billion improving drug benefits for seniors on medicare, deferring the cost of health care

legislation, which has been tapping secret negotiations involving key lawmakers in the white house. this deal marks a major triumph for senator baucus, as well as the administration. the montana democrat has been negotiating with numerous groups for weeks as he tries to draft legislation that meet the goal of health care coverage. not adding to the deficit. -- denn visit." the economy -- the deficit." the economy is the focus of a number of stories. inside a "the new york times," a piece from cleveland, ohio. "monday is the 40th anniversary of the kite a holder river -- cloy of the river -- cuyahoga river