1. Now part of Iran's military complex—at least the wing most loyal to Khameni—is backing media restrictions:

Iran’s most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country’s election crisis. The Revolutionary Guards, an elite body answering to the supreme leader, says Iranian Web sites and bloggers must remove any materials that “create tension” or face legal action.

2. Attempted vehicular homicide in Isfahan (pop 3.4 million), from the NYT:

At one point, a white S.U.V. with a red ambulance-style light raced up behind a knot of protesters and smashed into them, running one over before racing a few blocks to the protection of the riot police. Bands of Basiji, the authorized plainclothes vigilantes riding motorbikes and wielding long truncheons, were let loose by the hundreds to sow fear far afield from the actual unrest. Many wore the green headbands of the opposition — possibly to camouflage, or to confuse.

3. Despite Obama's reticence, Iran has still accused the U.S. of "interference" and at least on prosecutor has accused demonstrators of treason and threatened them with the death penalty:

“We warn the few elements controlled by foreigners who try to disrupt domestic security by inciting individuals to destroy and to commit arson that the Islamic penal code for such individuals waging war against God is execution."

4. Iranian soccer players at a World Cup Asian qualifying match in Korea wore green wristbands—the game, of course, was broadcast on state TV:

The wristbands disappeared at halftime.

5. Fisk reports an instance of soldiers protecting demonstrators from the basij:

It was interesting that the special forces - who normally take the side of Ahmadinejad's Basij militia - were there with clubs and sticks in their camouflage trousers and their purity white shirts and on this occasion the Iranian military kept them away from Mousavi's men and women.

In fact at one point, Mousavi's supporters were shouting 'thank you, thank you' to the soldiers.

One woman went up to the special forces men, who normally are very brutal with Mr Mousavi's supporters, and said 'can you protect us from the Basij?' He said 'with God's help'.

6. Are the demonstrations working? Are they convincing Khameni's peers to strip his power? From The Lede this morning:

A Twitter feed apparently coming from inside Iran mentions an as yet unconfirmed rumor that Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a senior cleric and former president who supports Mir Hussein Moussavi, has called for an emergency meeting of an Iranian clerical body that has the power to pick a new Supreme Leader.

If these demonstrations succeed in bringing an unjust and repressive Middle Eastern government to heel, the people of Iran will have achieved what many presidents, prime ministers, think tanks, seminars, summits, several wars, and hundreds of millions of dollars could not.

The people of Iran will have turned the corner on what has been thought of, for decades, as an insoluble problem: How to make fair and free elections matter—really matter—in the Middle East.

Also exciting: The green revolution appears to be a movement for everybody. It's a movement for women's rights, gay rights, free speech, religious tolerance, anti-anti-Semitism, clear-headedness, transparency, and basic fucking human decency.

If the repressive, abusive power structure of Iran is fundamentally altered for the better, the entire Middle East is fundamentally altered for the better.