roger cohen of "t new york times"as one of th last western reporters in tehran. >> t regime in iran is tryi desperately to demonstrate it case thatestern agents we in some y responsible for bringing 3 mlion people out into thstreet. th is a completely fantastical char. but idea behind what would really ount to show trils in my view would be to somehow prove thease that this whole upring was not spontaneous which is wha i saw when i was in tehran. a sponneous upring. i agine if therials are held that theill be coictions. t ion't think that the tries will in any wa calm the anger at is very wide pd, not only now overhe election itself but er the very violent and ruthless amp down. >>> ithe meantime robert worth of "the tis" reported today that the's growing outrage iiran, even ang promint conservatives about the alleged abuse of protesters since theirarrest. he wrote "some prisers say they watched fell dtainees beingbeatened to deat by uards in overcrowd stinking holding pens." others sa they had their fgernails ripped off or were forced to lickfilthy toilet bowls. more brsed corpses had

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roger cohen -- excuse me, bill keller of "the new york times" quoted somebody as saying that, and then the b.b.c.'s reporter also this quotes from the interior ministry official saying that. there are reasons to be highly skeptical of the vote. it's just unfortunate that we can't be more certain. host: if you're interested, the financial times has a times about mark zuckerburg who is the founder of facebook, did so from his dorm room at harvard university. next is a call from bethesda, maryland. theresa, welcome. go ahead, theresa. we'll try one more time, if you're there. caller: hello, yes. yes, i would like to make some comments about it the so-called facts on iran. i live in america and i have contact with people every day in iran in the past month. i have visited iran twice during the presidency of ahmadinejad. i would like to know why did people in america receive something that they could not verify? i did not think that was professional. there are reports in iran that the counting was done in two hours after the closing of the polls. another source said it was 13 hours after th

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