Iran Uprising Blogging (Friday July 10)

written by Zoran Stojanovic on July 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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I’m liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts, or follow me on Twitter. Send me instant messages at nico.pitney@gmail.com or njpitney on AIM. Scroll down for news related to the front-page headlines. Local Iran time is 8 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time.

(Blogging will be light today, HuffPost is moving offices in DC.)

9:42 AM ET — Big demonstration outside Iranian embassy in London. Photos here.

9:35 AM ET — Iran criticizes Italy’s suppression of protesters. “Iran summons the Italian Ambassador to Tehran Alberto Bradanini in protest against the violent suppression of anti-G8 protesters. Bradanini was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday to hear Tehran’s concerns about the ‘violent suppression of justice-seeking protesters by the Italian police.’” No comment.

9:30 AM ET — Obama: “Further steps” needed if Iran talks fail.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the G8 message to Iran was that if it failed to change its nuclear defiance by a September deadline “we need to take further steps.”

“We’re not going to just wait indefinitely,” Obama told a news conference at the end of a G8 summit in Italy. He insisted, however, that it had never been the intent for the summit to apply new sanctions on Tehran.

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