FROM IRAN - AT 7:23 A.M. ET:  Government forces are clearly winning the battle for the streets, as CNN reports:

(CNN) -- A ceremony Thursday to remember the victims of Iran's post-election protests has been postponed -- a day after security forces crushed a planned demonstration with a show of force...

...The event was postponed for a week, but the Web site did not offer an alternate date.

According to official figures, 17 people have died in clashes with government forces since the protests began.

CNN has received unconfirmed reports of as many as 150 deaths related to the popular uprising on just Saturday alone.

And...

The number of demonstrators venturing into Tehran's streets had fallen since Sunday, said CNN's Reza Sayah, who returned to the U.S. Wednesday from Iran.

He said exhaustion from consecutive days of protest may have combined with fear of government reprisals.

CNN has received numerous accounts of night-time roundups of opposition activists and international journalists by government forces.

COMMENT:  To watch cynicism in motion, note how the "world community" adjusts to the thug regime once it has entirely put down the revolt.  We did it with the Soviet Union once it put down Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Sad, but the amoral Obama administration will probably lead the world in its eagerness to "engage" the mullahs, and their President Ahmadinejad.

June 25, 2009