- "Upheaval in Iran: Causes and Consequences," Reuel Marc Gerecht, Behnam Ben Taleblu, FDD's Foreign Podicy
- More Iranian protesters dying in custody
Thomas Friedman writes: The biggest question about the recent protests in Iran — combined with the recent lifting of religious restrictions in Saudi Arabia — is whether together they mark the beginning of the end of the hard-right puritanical turn that the Muslim world took in 1979, when, as Middle East expert Mamoun Fandy once observed, “Islam lost its brakes” and the whole world felt it. - New York Times