FRONT PAGE: "Iran Stepping Up Effort to Quell Election Protest," By NAZILA FATHI and MICHAEL SLACKMAN, New York Times, June 25, 2009.

Per my piece for Esquire.com, the growing consensus of what this electoral putsch represents:

The nation's leadership cast anyone refusing to accept the results of the race as an enemy of the state. Analysts suggested that the unyielding response showed that Iran's leaders, backed by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had lost patience and that Iran was now, more than ever, a state guided not by clerics of the revolution but by a powerful military and security apparatus.

The absurd finger-pointing and accusations of treason and collaborating with foreign enemies is downright Stalinist.