Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#37)

Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi have urged people to carry black candles with green ribbons later today to show solidarity with victims of the protests. They say motorists should turn on their headlights for two hours from 5 pm local time (1230 GMT) to "show their solidarity with families of martyrs killed in recent events".

Cartoon by the mighty Steve Bell!

4:25
The sms is still down cz they know the MOMENT its back on ppl will organize HUGE protests again
4:30
Tehran is so quiet, no traffic, ordinary life is at standstill, or barely crawling

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What the World Didn't See in Tehran

Today there will be two Demo, First at 7 Tir,16 Local Time, Second Ferdosi Sq. 17, AT 7Tir ppl gather in memory Neda & others!

RT Iran TODAY 4pm- Haft Tir Sq, Tehran - black/green candle vigil - sitting on floor - in memory of our martyrs- #Iranelection #gr88 RT RT ! less than 10 seconds ago from web

RT from Iran: Situation In Tehran Very Tense Today - Many Roadblocks - #Iranelection #neda less than 10 seconds ago from web

This is a point of no return....the poeple who brought a revolution 30 years ago can do it again. there are many Neda's in IRAN now.

There is a candle light memorial for Neda this afternoon between 5-7pm in 7tir Sq in Tehran.

Today Monday 16:00 at 7 Tir Sq. peaceful mourning for #Neda #iranelection Iranians pass on to all friends and family ASAP

Khamenei will again present Friday prayer this week - confirmed Iran tv

Iranian TV: Govt admits voting irregularities in 50 cities. Potentially signif admission

UNConfirmed: ppl set fire to Lola mosque on Saturday and several Basiji's were killed in the fire !

Chief nurse of a hosp in Tehran: that they had to do sev. eye surgeries (remove eyeball) regularly

Student who survived dorm attacks: I'm sure many were blinded that day cuz they pocked battons into their eyes.

Ayatollah Montazeri declared three days of public lament starting Wed Jun 24th

Karroubi will publish an announcement laer today

Iran expert Jason Rezaian, who just left Iran, says that given the media blackout protesters "feel like they're in this alone"

unconfirmed: Ali Fazli high ranked IRG officer arrested due to disobedience to suppression of the protesters

A partial list of arrested journos/bloggers/politicians http://bit.ly/BHmc5

Journalist whose photo made cover of Time Magazine last week missing in Iran

There are reports that the Iranian-American journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari is arrested.

Tehran's attorney annonced: We dont know who Killed Protesters yesterday! We are searching for "The Murder"!!!

Iranian spokesman in this morning's press conference seemed agitated. Complained about cyber war.

Another round of crackdown on proxies! Please send all proxies u have 4 Iranians here: http://bit.ly/QgnaX

Tomorrow at 4pm everybody in all parts of country telephone and report street protests where there is none

Ppl - stop to pay all electricity, gas, water, telephone bills from today - this will starve the Gov

Ppl if you have money in bank - withdraw ALL your account - Gov is using your money to kill your ppl

Tuesday, June 23rd, nationwide strike in Iran (bazaar, offices, schools etc...) Iranians pass to all family and friends.

Mousavi talking with influential merchants and workers' leaders to plan general strike@DailyDish

5:22 AM ET -- Karroubi calls for public mourning of Neda today. In a Facebook post, the reformist candidate who has been supporting Mousavi and appearing with him at rallies calls for people to gather at a central Tehran location at 4PM to mourn Neda. This could get explosive

@HuffPo

UNCONFIRMED - several of the pro-democracy leaders in prison have started HUNGER STRIKE - #Iranelection RT RT35 minutes ago from web

Neda Soltani

Neda we know our duty to you and to all freedom lovers. #iranelection Iran Tehran Neda less than 20 seconds ago from web

An acquaintance of her family said Neda worked part-time at a travel agency in Iran and that the government barred the family from holding a public funeral today, according to AP.

It comments:

The bloody imagery [of Neda's death] alone could have an important impact on public opinion in Iran, where the idea of martyrdom resonates deeply among a populace steeped in the stories and imagery of Shia Islam, a faith founded on the idea of self-sacrifice in the cause of justice.

Clerics protest too

Green Brief 5

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#36)

Shirin Ebadi - Nobel Peace Laureate and HR lawyer - 'I will pursue those who kill the prtestors' - #Iranelection44 minutes ago from web
Shirin Ebadi

Revolution Road

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NEDA AGHA-SOLTAN @ Wilkipedia

In Iran, one woman's death may have many consequences

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Please don't assume anything about what they really want for THEIR regime.

You may think that total democracy as in the USA is desirable, for them, but don't assume you know what they want. Derogatory comments about Islam or about any other deeply-rooted religious and/or cultural practices in Iran only serves to fuel the anti-USA and other anti-Western World sentiment that is drummed into them.

If you want to know more about Iranian culture, there are plenty of places on the Internet you can learn. The Iranian people are good, kind, generous and loving people with a very long history. They generally do not reflect their government's views. Having said that, don't assume they all want the moral freedoms we have. Some do, some don't. Even in a totally free and democratic Iran, you will still see some people in veils who are deeply religious, just like you'll see people f all religious persuasions in the west.

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Don't forget that the basis of the current problem revolves around the election and the cheating that took place. That is the primary issue and remains so.

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Thanx Nico

There has been a massive surge of traffic here from Iran all of a sudden.

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Iran June 2009 = Paris May 1968

France – the struggle goes on (Published August 1968)

COMPLETE HISTORY OF PARIS MAY - JUNE

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 #Iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web

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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

@The Washington Post - you just don't get it do you? But that is why you are becomming evermore irrelevant!

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.

@TheGuardian

"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?
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Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#34)

List of Imprisoned Politicians & Journalists
@TehranBureau

WHO HAS THE GUNS?
@DailyDish

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

More PHOTOGRAPHS

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/

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