(Credit: Jonathan Guyer) Jonathan Guyer is a Program Associate for the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.

This is a guest note written by an anonymous student in Tehran. Sent to The Washington Note at 3:50 am on 17 June 2009. So long as the “process” is underway with the Guardian Council I don’t foresee things spinning way out of control. What happened in Azadi, the shootings, wasn’t systematic.

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The spllt among the mullahs is serious and with all due respect to those who want to start nuclear negotiations tomorrow, this election in Iran is not over. Just back from Los Angeles and now in DC. More tomorrow.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This is the clip from a segment I did last night on the Iranian elections with Keith Olbermann’s Countdown.

This is a guest note from an anonymous student in Iran.

There are now nine dead, according to BBC Persia reports, and dozens injured. I am getting notes that police are raiding homes and apartments and not just arresting people but engaged in wanton destruction of property. Mousavi doubts a positive nod from the Guardian Council. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the election declaration.

These dispatches were written over the last several days. They do not include references to the most recent events and violence. There are others on the way that deal with what has been happening since the announcement by Iran’s Ministry of Interior that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won the presidency outright.

I am in Los Angeles today and will be appearing on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown this evening shortly after 8 pm EST. The topic is Iran. My colleague Flynt Leverett and his wife Hillary Mann Leverett have a provocative piece out called: “Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It.

Iran’s now illegitimate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just made the bizarre statement in the last hour that ongoing street protests really show that Iran is a democracy. I guess he hasn’t been to the ones where people are being beaten by police with clubs.