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**jtabeb** · June 15, 2009, 12:34 AM

Re: Iran election crisis...

Originally posted by metalman View Post

not good!

RT @palaba IF Hezbollah IS policing the Iranian streets,Ahmadinejad had have planned this http://tinyurl.com/lf7jc8 #IranElection14 minutes ago from web
@TehranBureau pls RT confirmed the Tehran protest from Enghelab to Azadi, 4pm (Today - Mon.) and a national strike on Tuesday. #IranElection16 minutes ago from web in reply to TehranBureau
RT @lotfan Sources close to Mousavi: today's rally will go on as scheduled regardless of government's permission #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web
RT @IranNewsNow FB post: citizens in Tehran leaving front doors unlocked so demonstrators have place to hide when police come! #IranElectionabout 2 hours ago from web
RT @IranRiggedElect Mousavi in a phone msg states he's under pressure from government to accept the anounced results #IranElectionabout 2 hours ago from web
RT @parinaz AhmadiN has revoked all permits of foreign media and has told them to stop reporting or they will face jail time. #IranElectionabout 2 hours ago from web
Please everyone pass this newest communication from #Mousavi, 4pm today ac Iran : http://sites.google.com/sit... #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
Confirmed march today at 4pm is ON, newest letter from #Mousavi to Iranian people http://sites.google.com/sit... #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
@GhibliBlog It is true, posted by several reliable Mousavi sources, scheduled for 4pm from Enghelab Sq to Azadi Sq #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web in reply to GhibliBlog
Anxious to see what becomes of the Mousavi march later today, i hope he is safe and able to lead/guide us #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
RT @Change_for_Iran forging department students captured 2 Ansar troopers and moving them to another building! #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
Thanks to all your support from around the world. It's a dire situation, surrounded by blood, death, and crying #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
Is this hopeless? We're up against a vicious enemy that has no boundaries, that has weaponry and intent to harm God help us #iranelectionabout 4 hours ago from web
Hospitals around Tehran surrounded by secret police who refuse to let people with injuries get through, humanity at its worst #iranelectionabout 4 hours ago from web
Hospitals around Tehran are surrounded by security forces who refuse to let those with injuries pass, humanity at its worst #iranelectionabout 4 hours ago from web
Friend: 17 y/o killed infront of me couldn't get to him in time guards beating us up went to hospital but he stopped moving #iranelectionabout 4 hours ago from web
RT @mousavi1388 Mousavi asks his supporters to protest throughout Iran from 4pm on Monday (in Tehran Enghelab Sq. to Azadi Sq.)#IranElectionabout 4 hours ago from web
RT @dailydish: Is This Where We're Headed?: A photo of a student beaten by police in Shiraz. http://tinyurl.com/mxdue3 about 5 hours ago from web
Unconf.: Mousavi is in hiding in Karaj, can anyone confirm this? #iranelection #mousaviabout 5 hours ago from web

This is the most INCREDIBLE thing since the fall of the Berlin wall (or tienamen).

Pray for the Iranian people, and let's also pray that the will of the people is done.

**Mega** · June 15, 2009, 05:50 AM

Re: Iran election crisis...

While i have little time for "I-been-a-dinner-jacket" the other bloke wants to have Nukes as well.

I wonder if we will see attacks on the oil platform?
Mike

**thunderdownunder** · June 15, 2009, 07:06 AM

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Mike its not good - but they have had enough - this is what you get when your being controlled and lied to. All election results are the same margin across all booths 2 to 1 in favor of the dinner jacket. Even in Mousavi's home town where he has a 90% majority. YEH right

**iyamwutiam** · June 15, 2009, 01:33 PM

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF16Ak05.html

**Digidiver** · June 15, 2009, 01:45 PM

Re: Iran election crisis...

Another view of things:

Iran: Some Dots You May Want To Connect

1. Groom an opposition candidate to run against the guy you hate, pay him well and line up your media to back him.

2. During the campaign, sell him as the savior of the bourgeois opposition who lost their money in the revolution. Use your own pollsters and media propaganda to convince his followers that they are going to win by a wide margin.

3. When your guy loses, scream "FRAUD!" It's akin to yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, inflaming all those disappointed bourgeois counter-revolutionaries. Get them out on the street, setting fires, playing the victim, waving flags, ready-to-go placards, banners, women crying in front of CNN cameras and men yelling angrily into Christiana Amanpour's microphone. Only this time, they're ready to burn their own flag instead of the U.S. flag. I tell ya, it makes great TV for a western audience. (Incidentally, don't take Christiana's reports too seriously. The Amanpours, like many Iranian expats, led a privileged life under the Shah of Iran and lost their ill gotten wealth as a result of the Iranian revolution in '79. Naturally, Christiana was very upset. Later, she married James Rubin, an arch-Zionist, and regained her status, good money and even some fame, this time as a CNN reporter in service to the empire.)

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publis...le_56031.shtml

**blazespinnaker** · June 15, 2009, 02:40 PM

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Trust me, if Mousavi won, things would be way worse over there.

I love how all these iranians type perfect english. They must really speak for the iranian people.

**metalman** · June 15, 2009, 08:35 PM

Re: Iran election crisis...

Originally posted by blazespinnaker View Post

Trust me, if Mousavi won, things would be way worse over there.

I love how all these iranians type perfect english. They must really speak for the iranian people.

picture says 1000 words...

**metalman** · June 17, 2009, 09:08 PM

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meanwhile, back in iran...

We reported yesterday that Twitter had delayed an upgrade to its network because of the vital role it is playing in the Iran protest. It has now emerged that the US state department requested the delay, according to the Washington Post. This despite Barack Obama's stance of not meddling in Iranian affairs.

The man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry - the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third - was killed in a suspicious car accident, according to unconfirmed reports, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran.

**Starving Steve** · June 17, 2009, 11:56 PM

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If religion, especially religious fundamentalism, has done any good for mankind, what is it?

**D-Mack** · June 18, 2009, 05:45 AM

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I never got the twitter thing

This coverage allowed Twitter the dubious distinction of being able to jump the shark for a second time. The first time came back in April, when CNN and actor Ashton Kutcher staged a contest to see who could get one million followers on Twitter first (Kutcher won).

Blogs and Internet media sites like The Daily Beast proclaimed back then that media coverage of Twitter had finally gone too far, a phenomenon known in show business as jumping the shark. It refers to an episode of the old sitcom "Happy Days" in which the ultra-cool Fonzi character water skied over a shark cage, an action so stupid and off subject that TV critics pronounced that moment the beginning of the end of the show's primetime dominance.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/twi...gain-in-tehran

I would be very careful Ahmadinejad, wounded animals are dangerous.

Ahmadinejad declares end to age of empires
(06-16 16:09)

Iran's under-fire President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined an array of world leaders at a regional summit in Russia, defiantly declaring that the age of empires had ended.

In a show of confidence after the worst riots in his country in a decade, Ahmadinejad made no mention of the violence or his hotly disputed reelection victory in his address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

''The international capitalist order is retreating,'' the controversial president told world leaders, including China's Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

''It is absolutely obvious that the age of empires has ended and its revival will not take place.''

...

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaki...d_str=20090616

**D-Mack** · June 18, 2009, 06:02 AM

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Originally posted by metalman View Post

picture says 1000 words...

Reminds me of Mad Max with those guys in leather on motorcycles.

And lots of wounded riot cops.... bizarre.

**makimanos** · June 18, 2009, 09:14 AM

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What a wonderful enviroment for the oil.

**don** · June 18, 2009, 11:34 AM

Re: Iran election crisis...

Originally posted by Digidiver View Post

Another view of things:

Iran: Some Dots You May Want To Connect

1. Groom an opposition candidate to run against the guy you hate, pay him well and line up your media to back him.

2. During the campaign, sell him as the savior of the bourgeois opposition who lost their money in the revolution. Use your own pollsters and media propaganda to convince his followers that they are going to win by a wide margin.

3. When your guy loses, scream "FRAUD!" It's akin to yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, inflaming all those disappointed bourgeois counter-revolutionaries. Get them out on the street, setting fires, playing the victim, waving flags, ready-to-go placards, banners, women crying in front of CNN cameras and men yelling angrily into Christiana Amanpour's microphone. Only this time, they're ready to burn their own flag instead of the U.S. flag. I tell ya, it makes great TV for a western audience. (Incidentally, don't take Christiana's reports too seriously. The Amanpours, like many Iranian expats, led a privileged life under the Shah of Iran and lost their ill gotten wealth as a result of the Iranian revolution in '79. Naturally, Christiana was very upset. Later, she married James Rubin, an arch-Zionist, and regained her status, good money and even some fame, this time as a CNN reporter in service to the empire.)

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publis...le_56031.shtml

The other day in the Times there were two related articles. One discussed the NSA's 'overzealous' collection of domestic emails. The other covered the government's involvement in twittering Iran. CyberCzar...CyberCzar kept echoing through the room. Has a color been assigned this OP as yet? Orange has been taken. What's left?

**D-Mack** · June 18, 2009, 12:08 PM

Re: Iran election crisis...

Originally posted by don View Post

The other day in the Times there were two related articles. One discussed the NSA's 'overzealous' collection of domestic emails. The other covered the government's involvement in twittering Iran. CyberCzar...CyberCzar kept echoing through the room. Has a color been assigned this OP as yet? Orange has been taken. What's left?

U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:26pm EDT

Twitter delays down time to aid Iranian protesters
16 Jun 2009

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election.

Confirmation that the U.S. government had contacted Twitter came as the Obama administration sought to avoid suggestions it was meddling in Iran's internal affairs as the Islamic Republic battled to control deadly street protests over the election result.

Twitter and Facebook have been used as a tool by many young people to coordinate protests over the election's outcome.

President Barack Obama said earlier on Tuesday he believed "people's voices should be heard and not suppressed" in Iran.

..
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSI...01137420090616

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