Today in EA (14 December)

Iran: In addition to the latest developments, Scott Lucas has EA's Monday analysis of the weekend's events and an interview in the Italian newspaper La Stampa . We've got the first videos from today's university protests, and there's new footage from the 16 Azar protests which only surfaced over the weekend. We have a winner in our first EA caption competition - well done bigwinnman!

As always, you can keep up to date with news as we get it in our live weblog.

Israel: The Netanyahu Cabinet gives legitimacy to the settlements in the West Bank by approving them in the National Priorities Map.

Iran: Scott Lucas in La Stampa on "Khamenei's Final Warning"

I had an excellent discussion with Claudio Gallo of the Italian newspaper La Stampa last night about the weekend's events in Iran. The outcome is an article this morning covering the Supreme Leader's Sunday speech, the "burning of Khomeini incident", and President Ahmadinejad's apparent absence from the centre of internal events.

Iran: “Arrests” and the Regime’s Sword of Damocles
Iran Analysis: Sifting the Propaganda – Government About to Arrest Opposition Leaders?
The Latest from Iran (14 December): Taking Stock

(One clarification in light of the Italian press' focus on the Supreme Leader threat to "wipe out" the opposition. The article quotes me that "I do not think [Khamenei] used those words" --- what I meant was that, even though the words may have been used, they were with reference to a general ambition, rather than a signal of an immediate move to arrest opposition leaders.)