Monday, 22 June 2009

Iran June 2009 = Paris May 1968


Poster above reads:
"BE YOUNG & SHUT UP!"


Over the last few days I have been seeing more & more parallels with what is happening in Iran NOW with what happened in Paris 41 years ago.
Yesterday there were a number of tweets quoting slogans from posters of the time.

Forget about the timeline that takes you from the situationists to the Sex Pistols.
This is the TRUE legacy!

BE REASONABLE DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE!

Neda Soltani

Neda Soltani
RIP
Can anyone confirm that this is indeed a picture of Neda Soltani.

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#35)

First hand accounts here and here
Thanx DailyDish


NEDA

Iran's Rage Against The Machine - Freedom

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persiankiwi - we must now leave our DSL connection becos the owners will soon be coming - but we always find a way ALWAYS #Iranelection

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Mousavi is NOT our leader, he was excuse for our "legal" gatherings, but NOW we are ousting this regime, ONLY democracy! #Iranelection
less than 10 seconds ago from web



Analysis:'Fatal wound' inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology
@CNN

What makes this repression different?

Twitter revolution in a nutshell: Anne Frank's diary. Live. Multiplied by millions.
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Muslim News, very usefully, carries remarks by the powerful speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani. who has criticised both the reformists and the hardliners. In his TV interview yesterday he seems to come down on the side of the latter. If that is the case, it does not bode well for Mousavi. Here are some of his comments.The issue cannot be taken forward by shouting fraud, stirring the mood, and dragging the issue to the streets. We must separate those who have burnt people's shops in the streets and harmed the police and Basij, who are the guardians of the country, from the critics of the election results. Some, who may not have even voted, are taking advantage of the current mood by creating unrest and disrupting public security. They must be stopped.
"In the name of the Iranian people, we want you to know that when you recently made the statement "Achmadinejad or Mousavi? Two of a kind," we consider this as a grave and deep insult, not just to Mr. Mousavi but especially against the judgment of the Iranian people, against our moral conviction and intelligence, especially those of the young generation that comprises a population of 31 million."
Mousavi letter to Obama



RT Reminder: do NOT DDoS Iran websites; it costs the Greens bandwidth--let the hackers deal with them #iranelection #gr88 #neda less than 10 seconds ago from HootSuite

HA!

Thanx Tony
PS: Everton?
Here

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#34)




List of Imprisoned Politicians & Journalists

@TehranBureau

WHO HAS THE GUNS?
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RT start to confuse militia - telephone Republican Guard and tell them there is march in your street when there is none - #Iranelection RT less than 10 seconds ago from TwitterFon





WAS THERE A COUP IN IRAN?
@ PBS


A great story as well as she gave a member of the Basij an empty memory card keeping the one that stored these photos despite getting beaten!
There were many women among the crowd of demonstrators trying to get to Freedom Square, she said. "We gave the boys the stones because we can't throw them so far. We gave them the stones, and we said the slogans."
@CNN

اطلاعات تکمیلی درباره ندا شهید راه آزادی در تهران


بنا بر گزارش های رسیده از بستگان نزدیک دختری به نام ندا که روز ۳۰ خرداد در محله امیر آباد تهران به شهادت رسید نام کامل وی ندا آقا سلطان بوده است. وی متولد ۱۳۶۱ بوده است. وی در روز ۳۰ خرداد به همراه استاد دانشگاهش (‌رشته فلسفه) و چند تن از هم کلاسی هایش در تظاهرات شرکت داشته است . وی برای دقایقی در حالی که با موبایل صحبت میکرده از جمع تظاهر کندده عقب می افتد که دراین هنگام ۲ لباس شخصی موتور سوار (‌موسوم به بسیجی) قلب ندا را با کلت کمری هدف قرار می دهند . وی در دستان استادش جان می سپارد. ولی این موتور سواران توسط مردم متوقف می شوند و بنا به این گزارش توسط مردم دستگیر می شوند. و بنا بر گزارش تایید نشده ضارب اصلی کشته شده است. ظهر روز ۳۱ خرداد ( روز بعد از شهادت) پیکر ندابه شرط خاکسپاری سریع و محرمانه در بهشت زهرا به خانواده اش تحویل شده است . خاکسپاری وی تحت شدیدترین تدابیر امنیتی و با سرعت بسیار انجام شده است.گفتنی است که هم اکنون خانواده وی بعد از خاکسپاری ندا آقا سلطان به خانه باز گشته اند. مراسم یادبود ندا قرار بود فردا اول تیر ساعت ۵ تا ۶.۳۰ در مسجد نیلوفر واقع در عباس آباد تهران برگزار شود که با تماسی از طرف مسجد این مراسم لغو شده است. همچنین به تمام مساجد تهران دستور داده شده است که اجازه برگزاری مراسم ندا آقا سلطان را ندارند.

Apparently this post here is about Neda.
"A blogger apparently in touch with Neda's family members offers some new details (translated by reader Nima): she was born in 1982, apparently her full name was Neda Agha-Soltan, and she was at the protest with one her professors and several other students. She was, they said, shot by a basiji riding by on a motorcycle. Also, she was apparently buried today at a large cemetery in the south of Tehran. ABC News' Lara Setrakian writes, "Hearing reports Neda was buried in Behesht Zahra cemetery earlier today, memorial service cancelled on orders from authorities."
Via HuffPo.

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Obs for the day?
Not much as I can't help thinking here it is Father's Day and there is a man in Iran who held his daughter in his hands as the life drained out of her...
My thoughts are with you my friend and to all the others who have lost loved ones in this JUST battle.

I have three sons and to them I can only say that my life is NOT as important as your freedom.
Later/

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#33)

OK! NICO@ HuffPo is back online as is TheLede with the DailyDish to follow.
I fuct up a bit in my time diff between them and where I am in downtown teh'ran before. For that my apologies.
Anyway I will put up a list now of places for people who want to keep checking things out: (see above)

I am now going to wind down as I am extremely tired!
( I seem to remember saying this yesterday too!)
I hope that the info I gave today was not disinfo, I can never be 100% certain, bearing in mind that I am doing this ALL by myself on a computer made out of coffee tins & string!

For the people that have been following me for the past 24 hours or so I hope that you will return...tomorrow/later.

In the meantime keep an eye @ the links above:

MORE VIDEO FROM YESTERDAY


Exile On Moan Street: محمد رضا شجريان

محمد رضا شجريان. In response to Ahmadinejad's earlier speech calling the
supporters of Mousavi “brushwood and thorns,” Iran's most famous classical
musician ...
http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post_18.h... - 181k - Similar pages




Protesters gathering near Baharstan SQ, Central Tehran NOW


Check the BBC or CNN sites before passing on false information. This isn't a game. Peoples lives are at stake. #iranelection
less than 10 seconds ago from web

FUCKING GOOD ADVICE!!!


"DO NOT BE AFRAID, WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER - DEATH TO THE DICTATOR!"
June 21, 2009



THE PHOTOJOURNALIST WHO TOOK THESE FOR 'LIFE' IS MISSING!
NO Name given!


FIGHTBACK

RT @iranbaan: هلی کوپتر های نظامی بر فراز شهر تهران همچنان در حال پرواز هستند helicopters still flying over Tehran #IranElection
less than 10 seconds ago from web



REALLY IMPORTANT!

CAN ANYONE TRANsLATE THIS PAGE
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THANX

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#32)

Email from Iran 4


A nationwide strike could be staged for Tuesday, June 23. More reports on this later. #Iranelection
less than 10 seconds ago from web


Actually yesterday but just uploaded I think. I certainly haven't seen it before.

An eerie sense of deja-vu, the calm before the storm...
The eyes of the world (at least those that matter and that is us) are watching you.
Nothing can be hidden.
BROTHERS & SISTERS OF IRAN THIS IS YOUR KISMET...

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Reuters: Iranian dissident grand Ayatollah Montazeri calls 3 days of mourning for killed protesters #IranElection #tcot
less than 10 seconds ago from web


JohnSimpson @BBC

Tehran: mobiles down now in Enghelab antenna region #iranelection #gr88 less than 10 seconds ago from web
Article @ Foreign Affairs on the Iranian election crisis titled “Clerical Error.”

Summary: “No matter who emerges victorious in Iran’s current struggle for political power, the future of the Islamic Republic will look nothing like the country the world has known for the last 30 years.”



KHATAMI - today - The Law of the Constitution must be respected - The people must decide #iranelection #tehran less than 10 seconds ago from web

KHATAMI - today - beating suppressing and arresting of our people will make the situation worse for the Gov - it must stop - #Iranelection

Daughter of former Iranian president arrested