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Original Morning Round Up at the bottom of post.

We're following @iran09 and @pinkmuslimah on Twitter today.

For the BEST of the liveblogs on Iran's woes go to Nico Pitney's at the Huffington Post.

FINAL TUESDAY UPDATE:

To give our readers- many of whom were born AFTER Iran's 1979 Revolution- a little context we've compiled this playlist of YouTube videos on the subject. If you know of other videos that should be on this list send us a note.

UPDATED 4:20 PM PDT

iran09

Just got informed that one of my best friends h/b arrested two days ago! :( I wouldn't forgive them! #GR88

so called Supreme Leader: "it's not easy to accept loosing" | #GR88: you'll see that it's not! | http://tinyurl.com/krltjm

RT: @StopAhmadi: Police w/ face masks beating young man (youtube) http://tr.im/oIWr #gr88 #iranelection RT from Iran: Basijis attacking building complex, breaking in (youtube) http://bit.ly/2koCE0 #GR88 #iranelection

UPDATED 3:28 PM PDT

iran09

NCONF RT @IranElection09: NEW footage of BASIJ in Tehran invading homes terrorizing ppl TONIGHT http://bit.ly/MKzXX #iranelection #gr88   # Iran Election 2009

CONF. abt D unarmed police, I kinda confirm it based on similar situations in the past #iranelection #gr88   # Iran Election 2009

RT the gov apparently doesn't trust the normal police; they're all unarmed (empty holsters) #iranelection #gr88 #allmylove2Iran

UPDATED: 1:35 PM PDT

@iran09

VID RT: Police shooting into the crowds in Tehran http://tinyurl.com/npc5oh #iranelection #gr88

@RachelSterne:

Footage from Iran. Cop protected by protestors speaks volumes: http://bit.ly/sskX6 And again: http://bit.ly/19GwvZ

Editor's note: we saw Twitter emerge as a force for news with the Hudson River emergency plane landing earlier this year. Now we're seeing Twitter and the rest of social media really come into its own- eclipsing the might of the 24 hour news networks. Even the New York Times has to sit up and listen. [Thanks @elemvee].

Also: our own @sabster is looking for iranian youth to comment on the election. Send her an @ reply on Twitter OR email us using the feedback link in the "Get Involved" tab above. 

UPDATED: 12:29 PM PDT

@ iran09

ME: There's no safe way for iranian to comm on inet!!! every email, twit, webpage is under monitoring! #HELP #SECURITY #CREATIVE #GR88

CONF: RT: @couchecouche: CNN Atlanta is reporting Supreme Leader is calling for unity;meeting with pres. candidates envoys #iranelection

RT: @rakidd: BBC's John Leyne: says reporting restrictions are most stringent he's ever encountered #iranelection #GR88 (link?)

UPDATED: 11:36 AM PDT

@ iran09

RT: @StopAhmadi: NEWS: Another BIG confirmation that Mousavi got call 2AM on election night, was told he WON #gr88

RT @lotfan US State Dept. has asked twitter to cancel scheduled maintenance today. reason:Iranians are using it to get the news out

UPDATED: 10:36 AM PDT

Twitter Updates

  @ iran09

CONF. RT: @hubbit: Cellular network has been shut down in Terhan again #iranelection #gr88 #iran #comm15 minutes ago from TwitterFox # Iran Election 2009

RT: @lotfan: URGENT: @VOA claims 5000 Lebanese Hezbollah Milita h/b brought down to Iran to help control the situation #gr88 #iranelection16 minutes ago from TwitterFox # Iran Election 2009

RT: @ProtesterHelp: E-mail and call #CNNFAIL Stop posting Twitter names on TV! (STOP) Coverage is good, Treachery isn't! #iranelection #GR88

Iran's influential Guardian Council now says it will recount some of the votes in the disputed election. It is not yet clear how many ballots will be recounted.

This, after Iran is seeing the largest protests since their previous revolution.  Social networking mediums like Facebook and Twitter have played a considerable role in the coordination of demonstrations among young people in Iran.  Blogging has also been a popular way of covering the story for journalists.

Huffington Post reporter Nico Pitney is live blogging the events as they unfold. He writes that some people in the States seem to be using Twitter to try to confuse protesters.

If you've been watching the Iran unrest unfold on Twitter, I think you'll agree that there's been an increase in messages, allegedly from Iranians, that seem phony or meant to cause confusion. Surely, some of this is due to pranksters, in the U.S. and elsewhere, who simply enjoy disrupting social networking technology.

Click here to read the legit people writing about Iran that Youth Radio is following on Twitter.

Meanwhile, Iran announced today that it is banning all journalists from foreign news agencies to leave their offices to cover demonstrations. The government has also canceled accreditation of all foreign media.

Just how this will effect journalists from covering the events as they unfold is not yet clear.

President Obama made a comment today about recent events in Iran. The New York Times blog The Lede covered his statement.

At the end of a news conference at the White House with South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak, President Obama just said that given the history of U.S. relations with Iran “it’s not productive” for the U.S. President “to be seen as meddling in Iranian elections.” Even so, he did say that he has “deep concerns about the election” and pointed out that the country’s supreme leader seems to be aware that “the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.”

Whether or not a recount of ballots will quell these concerns remains to be seen.

Fanyo1 Mousavi & Karoubi ask supporters NOT to attend Friday prayers (which is being delivered by supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei) #IranElection

Writer Rachel Krantz and editor Noah Nelson contributed to this report.