The situation is only getting worse for Iranians contesting the June 12 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

With the whole Mark Sanford thing going down today it was not hard to lose sight of other, more important things going on in the world, like, oh yeah, Iran! And that situation just gets more and more depressing.

There have been a few new developments 24 hours in regards to the uprising in Iran. Here's a brief recap.

Over the past couple of days the world has been captivated by the death of a young woman, Neda, who was gunned down on a Tehran street by Iranian forces. Now details about her are beginning to emerge.

Unless you tuned out completely over the weekend you've seen the haunting video of a young woman named Neda dying on a Tehran street after being shot in the heart. She is now the immortal face of a revolutionary movement.

Newsweek's Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for the magazine for a decade, was taken into custody by Iranian officials during an early morning raid of his home. His captors also seized his computer and several videotapes.

In a highly anticipated speech that was actually carried live on CNN, Iran's Supreme Ayatollah claimed that his country's recent election was legitimate and called for the protests, which he blamed on the U.S., Britain and Israel, to end. [CNN]

CNN's Reza Aslan reported tonight that sources in Iran said that the clerical body overseeing the Grand Ayatollah has called an emergency meeting. Meanwhile, the Iranian military issued a threat to online media outlets who "create tension." [Pic via Getty]

Times executive editor Bill Keller is still in Iran, reporting today that Goggling "hooker" leads to an "access denied" message and that the Iranian government is pissed at muckraking Western journalists like himself for disrupting their regime. [New York Times]

Twitter announced late today that it was canceling a scheduled service outage for maintanance so that the protesters in Iran can continue to use the service to organize and communicate with the outside world. [Twitter Blog]

Over the weekend CNN's Howard Kurtz asked America the burning question, "are we going overboard with this Twitter business?" Meanwhile, CNN virtually ignored an event overseas with the potential to alter world history, an event reported extensively by Twitter users.

MSNBC's token Republican Joe Scarborough appeared on a guest on Meet The Press this morning and essentially gave credit to Barack Obama for setting the stage for revolution in Iran with his recent speech in Cairo.