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All hell is breaking loose inside Iran, though not in the pages of the Post. Glenn Reynolds says MORE IRANIAN PROTESTERS KILLED: And ethnic groups are lining up against the Mullahs. Gateway Pundit has a roundup. It seems to me that events like these would get a lot more attention if they were happening in Iraq. So why are they being ignored, now? You got me. Gateway has been blogging up a storm, of which his latest begins:

Pan Armenian News is one source reporting a slaughter of Azeri protesters in Tehran:

The elemental rally of South Azerbaijanis next to the Iranian Parliament building on May 28 was suppressed with special cruelty. Iranian authorities used (Yegani Bizhe) the Special Punitive Guard, which opened fire to suppress manifestations of Azerbaijanis, says a statement of the Committee for Protection of Rights of South Azerbaijan. The message says that during mass protest in Iran 50 Azeris were killed, 600 were wounded, over 1000 are arrested....

Very difficult for me to assess how reliable these reports are, but there's a heckuva lot more of them than this one. Meanwhile, international stories in the Post's A section today include U.S. to Join Talks With Iran If Uranium Enrichment Stops and Shift In Stance Shows Power of Seven-Letter Word, not on point even though we're talking about Iran. The only story with students being harassed is A-1's Iraq Students Are Tested By Battle Outside; about gunfire interrupting exams. Though interesting, with a possible mass uprising and reports of mass killings in Iran I would have put Saudi Women Rise in Defense of the Veil on hold. Nothing in the A-section yesterday either. Nothing on the website's home page as of this post. At least we can expect constant updates on the alleged murder of unarmed civilians by U.S. Marines. Some thing you can count on.