After several weeks of following the news obsessively, I need to get back to work. I thought some summary information might be helpful for others. Of course these sites are all in English. My Farsi reading level is like that of a primary school child, and Google Translate’s Persian alpha-version is not really adequate, so I am sticking to English mostly.

Background: general Iranian history; a nice diagram of the power structure in Iran; some key players; more description of Mousavi, Khamanei, Ahmadinejad; coup leaders;

Analysis: articles on politics by Mohammad Sahimi at TehranBureau; Juan Cole; Ali Ansari; statistical analysis of the election results by Walter Mebane and FiveThirtyEight.com;

News updates: Huffington Post; National Iranian-American Council blog; Windows on Iran;

Advocacy: Abdorahman Boroumand Foundation; ICHRI; Amnesty International; Haystack