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Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy. – Rolling Stones. Street Fighting Man HuffPo. Saturday may be the bloodiest yet, with more attacks on protesters I have been able to talk with Iranian photo-journalist NS (she does not [...] From their intro How-to surf securely and avoid censorship: http://torir.org This forum aims to be a secure and reliable way of communication for Iranians and friends. Use it to discuss what is happening in Iran. Post in the forum either anonymously as a guest, as a registered user, or login with your facebook-account. We [...] Mashable has the numbers and graphs Twitter: 221,744 “Iran” tweets in one hour Blogs: 2,250,000 blog posts on Iran in 24 hours YouTube: 3000 Iran videos uploaded in one day These trends clearly demonstrate that social media has been front-and-center in the Iran election protests. The Iranian government has reportedly been trying to [...] Juan Cole: Protesters are even now targeting Khamenei directly, not just denouncing dictatorship, according to Robert Tait at the Guardian, chanting, ‘”Seiyed Ali Pinochet, Chile Iran nemishe” (Seiyed Ali Pinochet, Iran won’t become Chile).’ This chant is consistent with a ‘Third Worldist’ (including international left solidarity) tinge to the Green Revolution. I.e. it is [...] With the kind of brutal logic of which often only dictators are capable, Stalin once said: “He who casts the vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything.” How many democratic elections since he uttered those words have borne out the truth contained in them? For despite the massive propaganda the world has [...] This is huge, and confirms there is a massive split in the ruling class of Iran. Tweets about the Iran Election are coming fast and furious now. Many are retweeting about how people should 1) change their Twitter time zone to Iran time and 2) strip Twitter names off retweets from protesters in Iran, so as to confuse the Iranian government. These proposals don’t really make much sense. Think about [...] Andrew Sullivan continues his superb, non-stop coverage. Hitchens For a flavor of the political atmosphere in Tehran, Iran, last week, I quote from a young Iranian comrade who furnishes me with regular updates: “I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have [...] Twitter has rescheduled planned maintenance from Iran daylight hours to Wed 1:30am Iran time specifically because Twitter is so important in getting Iran news to the outside world. Andrew Sullivan played a major role in mobilizing people to ask Twitter to reschedule. And they quickly did. Everyone, take a bow. This is the real time [...] From a reader after speaking with his father in Iran, quoted by Andrew Sullivan The police is just watching and the army has declared neutrality. The violence is 100% caused by the BASIJ and thugs who are roaming the streets It could be the army and police are using the paramilitaries as proxies, but [...] |  | ||||
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