Exile On Moan Street
همچنین به تمام مساجد تهران دستور داده شده است که اجازه برگزاری مراسم ندا آقا سلطان را ندارند. ... http://exileonmoanstreethttp://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/ 2009/06/22 - more from this site
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
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THE HUFFINGTON POST
THE GUARDIAN
DAILY DISH
NIAC
THE LEDE
REVOLUTION ROAD
#gr88
#iraninternational
(@ twitter)
ANONYMOUS IRAN
ETC>
Another long day here in the 'Exile' compound down here in downtown 'teh-ran' and about to put away the brain for another night. Please follow what goes on at the links above/
Again thanx for following.
If you follow on all the links that I have posted today again there is some very interesting reading...
Finally a message to all the people following this blog in Iran:
Any pictures or words would be gratefully accepted here at Exile...
Monastreet @ gmail dot com
twitter/exilestreet
Later/
THE GUARDIAN
DAILY DISH
NIAC
THE LEDE
REVOLUTION ROAD
#gr88
#iraninternational
(@ twitter)
ANONYMOUS IRAN
ETC>
Another long day here in the 'Exile' compound down here in downtown 'teh-ran' and about to put away the brain for another night. Please follow what goes on at the links above/
Again thanx for following.
If you follow on all the links that I have posted today again there is some very interesting reading...
Finally a message to all the people following this blog in Iran:
Any pictures or words would be gratefully accepted here at Exile...
Monastreet @ gmail dot com
twitter/exilestreet
Later/
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#42)
Obama will condemn Iran abuses
On Tuesday morning, from 9am all of us all over Iran will make our way towards the markets (bazaar). If they try to block us the market will shut down, and if they don’t then we will create such a swarm that the market will still close down. If the telephones/mobiles are cut off from first thing in the morning business will be disrupted all over the country and markets will close, and with our movement towards the bazaar with the goal of closing it down we will gather others to walk with us.
Bring your children too and very calmly – without shouting slogans – without wearing green – we will look as though we are going shopping but we won’t buy anything and will think only of shutting down the market, and will not leave any traces of ourselves. We will not even show the victory sign with our hands… under no circumstances …
Khatami released a statement on Mousavi’s facebook page earlier today.
Think only of victory and bring children throughout all the cities in Iran without slogans, without slogans, without slogans, calmly, calmly, calmly without green, without conflict. If someone interferes, don’t engage in conflict because in appearance we are a crowd shopping, there’s nothing to fear and everyone will come – no clashes, no bloodshed, no slogans, no conflict. If they try and stop us we will return home easily because our goal is to shut the market down not protest. If they throw tear gas the market will be closed down, we are clever and we won’t engage in conflict and any conflict on the part of the security forces will cause chaos in the market and it will close, but we will not engage in conflict. We will calmly think of victory and the market will either close from our swarms or from a lack of activity. Either way we are the winners. Moosavi needs your support and needs your leadership to make sure that this goes ahead on time.Millions of informed and decent people who believe that their votes have been tampered with, and that their intellect has been insulted, and for the defence of their rights and dignity have in a spontaneous manner come into the streets to express their pain and sense of oppression. You (the regime) insult them, and have stolen thousands of them from the streets and from their homes and taken them to unknown places. You have attacked the students and to these people who call out God is Great or Ya Hossein – you attack them like Moghuls.
You dare to blame these attacks on the people themselves.
We strongly support Mr. Mousavi – especially against the accusations that all the unrest and damage is due to his actions. This damage is the responsibility of those who turned our city into a barracks. They should be identified, arrested and charged.
Senior clergy across the country have told us that they have been put under severe pressure (by the state) to stand up against the millions of people. Until now, they have resisted. We thank them.
For the return of people’s trust and confidence we ask for the formation of a committee of neutral people, experts, and those familiar with the law who can investigate and address the complaints made by the candidates in the elections. May they issue a fair judgment… and help return our country to harmony.
Statement released by the Organisation of Combatant Clergy, June 22 2009
Shirin Ebadi - Nobel Peace Laureat - calls for International Political sanctions against Iran Gov - #Iranelection RT RT RT
Iranian authorities scramble to negate Neda Soltan 'martyrdom' -HERE
"The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of a student shot dead in Tehran to take down mourning posters as they struggle to stop her becoming the rallying point for protests against the presidential election. "
RT f Iran: new reports coming in.. #iranelection
Is Iran DPI censorship story wrong?
’ll begin with the depressing: total anonymization of data traffic is incredibly challenging if you’re up against a dedicated and well-prepared foe. Fortunately, you’re up against a government, which suggests that there will almost certainly be gaps, holes, and errors in any content analysis system that you can use to your advantage. I don’t know what DPI appliances have been sold to Iran (it’s typically a challenge to get this sort of information from companies, even here in Canada), but there are typical modes of ‘resisting’ full content analysis.(1) Encrypt your data traffic using a TOR node, or something similar. Alternately, use https://proximize.me/ or some other proxy service that also encrypts traffic and you can browse with SSL encryption. DPI cannot penetrate packets that are encrypted - the content is secure when it passes through the devices. The devices *will* still be able to look at header information, but because you would be using a proxy service would not offer accurate destination/origin information to the device.
(2) Wherever possible, use communications systems that are designed to obfuscate what they are; examples of VoIP would be Skype, which attempts to ‘fake out’ heuristic analyses of data traffic. At the same time, I don’t know whether DPI engineers have caught up to the most recent ways that Skype initiates a call, which can indicate the program that is being used.
The challenge that you get into is that, should DPI be deployed effectively, even when it cannot identify the content of the message it can identify what application-type is likely in use (e.g. a web browser, P2P, etc). If you use a series of proxies, however, you will obfuscate the origin of packets (i.e. your location) as well as the destination that you are going to (e.g. hotmail.com, facebook, twitter, etc); this can limit your exposure to particularly obtrusive government surveillance and its effects.
Mass Arrests and Detentions Signal Increasing Repression
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Family, friends mourn 'Neda,' Iranian woman who died on videoHere
Obama is giving a press conference at 12:30 pm Washington time (1630 GMT) so he will have walk the tightrope on Iran again. He has been very cautious, taking a much more measured line than European leaders, but he is coming under considerable domestic pressure to turn up the rhetoric, at a time when Iranian leaders are blaming outsiders for the crisis.
@TheGuardian
RT make stencils of neda and spray paint her image everywhere! #iranelection #neda
RT make stencils of neda and spray paint her image everywhere! #iranelection #neda
Wie ist Stuttgart heute?
Iran: Stop using Basij militia to police demonstrations - Amnesty International
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Iran has begun to "change" because of the protests but cautioned that Barack Obama would not back calls for a general strike there, according to Reuters.
Mir Hossein Mousavi میر حسین موسوی شماره ارائه شده تحت عنوان دفتر حقوقی موسوی در وبسایت قلم(88926773) ظاهرا شماره فکس بخش اشتراک ماهنامه نقش آفرینان است !! از همکاران وبسایت قلم مجددا خواهشمندم رفع ابهامات را جدی بگیرند، پیش از آن از همگی حامیان خواهشمندم هیچ گونه اطلاعاتی به هیچ شماره ای ارسال نکنند.با تشکر از حامیان هوشیا
Maziar Bahari, a Newsweek reporter who contributed several articles to the New Statesman's special report on Iran last year, has been arrested without charge and detained in Tehran. The 41-year-old journalist and filmmaker was arrested on Sunday morning by security officers at his apartment in the Iranian capital. The officers also seized his laptop and several of his films. Bahari, who has reported from Iran since 1998, has not been heard from since.
@NewStatesman
The session comes shortly after Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani expressed his deepest concern over the Interior Ministry's course of action towards the post-vote developments.
Larijani, in a rare internal criticism, held the Interior Ministry responsible for the recent attacks against civilians and university students.
“The Interior Ministry should clarify why the security forces destroyed the building and why students were injured or even killed,” said Larijani.
The Majlis speaker also recommended fresh television debates, asserting that "the voice of the people who have taken to the streets in millions should be heard.”
The session comes shortly after Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani expressed his deepest concern over the Interior Ministry's course of action towards the post-vote developments.
Larijani, in a rare internal criticism, held the Interior Ministry responsible for the recent attacks against civilians and university students.
“The Interior Ministry should clarify why the security forces destroyed the building and why students were injured or even killed,” said Larijani.
The Majlis speaker also recommended fresh television debates, asserting that "the voice of the people who have taken to the streets in millions should be heard.”
Allegedly a photograph of one the students killed in the raids at Tehran University last week12.10pm:
Splits in the regime? The speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Larijani , has expressed his "deepest concern" over the crackdown against the protester, in particular the violent raid against Tehran University.
"The Interior Ministry should clarify why the security forces destroyed the building and why students were injured or even killed," said Larijani according to Press TV.
Iran’s political coup
If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history. One characteristic that has always distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in much of the rest of the Middle East was its respect for the voice of the people, even when that voice was saying things that much of the leadership did not want to hear.
In 1997, Iran’s hard line leadership was stunned by the landslide election of Mohammed Khatami, a reformer who promised to bring rule of law and a more human face to the harsh visage of the Iranian revolution. It took the authorities almost a year to recover their composure and to reassert their control through naked force and cynical manipulation of the constitution and legal system. The authorities did not, however, falsify the election results and even permitted a resounding reelection four years later. Instead, they preferred to prevent the president from implementing his reform program.
In 2005, when it appeared that no hard line conservative might survive the first round of the presidential election, there were credible reports of ballot manipulation to insure that Mr Ahmadinejad could run (and win) against former president Rafsanjani in the second round. The lesson seemed to be that the authorities might shift the results in a close election but they would not reverse a landslide vote.
The current election appears to repudiate both of those rules. The authorities were faced with a credible challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who had the potential to challenge the existing power structure on certain key issues. He ran a surprisingly effective campaign, and his “green wave” began to be seen as more than a wave. In fact, many began calling it a Green Revolution. For a regime that has been terrified about the possibility of a “velvet revolution,” this may have been too much.
On the basis of what we know so far, here is the sequence of events starting on the afternoon of election day, Friday, June 12.
* Near closing time of the polls, mobile text messaging was turned off nationwide
* Security forces poured out into the streets in large numbers
* The Ministry of Interior (election headquarters) was surrounded by concrete barriers and armed men
* National television began broadcasting pre-recorded messages calling for everyone to unite behind the winner
* The Mousavi campaign was informed officially that they had won the election, which perhaps served to temporarily lull them into complacency
* But then the Ministry of Interior announced a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad
* Unlike previous elections, there was no breakdown of the vote by province, which would have provided a way of judging its credibility
* The voting patterns announced by the government were identical in all parts of the country, an impossibility (also see the comments of Juan Cole at the title link)
* Less than 24 hours later, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamene`i publicly announced his congratulations to the winner, apparently confirming that the process was complete and irrevocable, contrary to constitutional requirements
* Shortly thereafter, all mobile phones, Facebook, and other social networks were blocked, as well as major foreign news sources.
All of this had the appearance of a well orchestrated strike intended to take its opponents by surprise – the classic definition of a coup.
Curiously, this was not a coup of an outside group against the ruling elite; it was a coup of the ruling elite against its own people.
It is still too early for anything like a comprehensive analysis of implications, but here are some initial thoughts:
1. The willingness of the regime simply to ignore reality and fabricate election results without the slightest effort to conceal the fraud represents a historic shift in Iran’s Islamic revolution. All previous leaders at least paid lip service to the voice of the Iranian people. This suggests that Iran’s leaders are aware of the fact that they have lost credibility in the eyes of many (most?) of their countrymen, so they are dispensing with even the pretense of popular legitimacy in favor of raw power.
2. The Iranian opposition, which includes some very powerful individuals and institutions, has an agonizing decision to make. If they are intimidated and silenced by the show of force (as they have been in the past), they will lose all credibility in the future with even their most devoted followers. But if they choose to confront their ruthless colleagues forcefully, not only is it likely to be messy but it could risk running out of control and potentially bring down the entire existing power structure, of which they are participants and beneficiaries.
3. With regard to the United States and the West, nothing would prevent them in principle from dealing with an illegitimate authoritarian government. We do it every day, and have done so for years (the Soviet Union comes to mind). But this election is an extraordinary gift to those who have been most skeptical about President Obama’s plan to conduct negotiations with Iran. Former Bush official Elliott Abrams was quick off the mark, commenting that it is “likely that the engagement strategy has been dealt a very heavy blow.” Two senior Israeli officials quickly urged the world not to engage in negotiations with Iran. Neoconservatives who had already expressed their support for an Ahmadinejad victory now have
every reason to be satisfied. Opposition forces, previously on the
defensive, now have a perfect opportunity to mount a political attack that will make it even more difficult for President Obama to proceed with his plan.
In their own paranoia and hunger for power, the leaders of Iran have insulted their own fellow revolutionaries who have come to have second thoughts about absolute rule and the costs of repression, and they may have alienated an entire generation of future Iranian leaders. At the same time, they have provided an invaluable gift to their worst enemies abroad.
However this turns out, it is a historic turning point in the 30-year history of Iran’s Islamic revolution. Iranians have never forgotten the external political intervention that thwarted their democratic aspirations in 1953. How will they remember this day?
12pm:
Don't expect that this will be resolved quickly, writes the veteran Iran watcher, Gary Sick, the principal White House aide for Iran during the revolution.
The Iranian revolution, which is usually regarded as one of the most accelerated overthrows of a well-entrenched power structure in history, started in about January 1978 and the shah departed in January 1979. During that period, there were long pauses and periods of quiescence that could lead one to believe that the revolt had subsided. This is not a sprint; it is a marathon. Endurance is at least as important as speed.
Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#41)
11.30am:
Ask Barack Obama a question about Iran, Nico Pitney, of the Huffington Post is offering.
He explains:
Later today, President Obama is holding a news conference at the White House and I'll be attending. If I get called, I want to ask a question that comes directly from an Iranian.
Pitney deserves to be called, his Iran liveblog has been very impressive.
It sure has Nico!!!
reports of large pro-Gov Baseej militia in front of UK embassy Tehran - #Iranelection
11.22am:
A date has been set for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be sworn in as president. According to state media he will take the oath of office between July 26 and August 19.
"Provocative" says a reader who spotted the news.@TheGuardian
11am:
Update on the pro-Mousavi footballers, spotted by Robert Tait.
The Iranian footballers who showed solidarity with the pro-Mousavi demonstrators by sporting green wristbands during last week's world cup qualifier against South Korea in Seoul have had their passports confiscated, according to Balatarin.
They have also been banned from giving media interviews while state newspapers in Iran have launched a concerted attack on them, calling on the football authorities to force them into early retirement.
Rafsanjani's relative silence
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10.40am:
There are reports that 30% of employees in Iran are taking part in a general strike. If you have more information please verify this.
10.40am:
There are reports that 30% of employees in Iran are taking part in a general strike. If you have more information please verify this.
G'day Brighton! Enjoying it so far?
10.20am:
More on the temporary recall of Iran's ambassador to the UK.
The move was apparently discussed at a meeting of between parliament's national security and foreign policy commission and the foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
"In the meeting yesterday we concluded to summon Iran's ambassador to London for a limited time for some explanations and a complete report of events and Britain's interference in Iran's internal affairs," Ahmadi said according to Reuters.
But an Iranian government source could not confirm the move. A comment from the Foreign Office is expected shortly.@TheGuardian
When all positions clear - Rafsanjani has the military, financial & clerical power to mobilise - #Iranelection cont...(12)
Rafsanjani is allowing Revolutionary Guard commanders to choose their side - with ppl or against - #Iranelection cont...(11) trusted or not
Rafsanjani is standing back to see who is who - who support who - to see who is trusted - #Iranelection cont....(10)
People - no business in Iran TUESDAY - sorry we are all on STRIKE
میر حسین موسوی - رئیس جمهور ایران - اعتصاب ملی برای روز سشنبه اعلام کرد
- الله اکبر
Tehran protests: 'There were reports of people being beaten inside a mosque'
Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#40)
'IRAN ELECTION'Tweeter word cloud
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Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#39)
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Blocked Facebook accounts حساب های بسته شده فیس بوک
If you are Iranian or you are helping Iranian people by posting wall posts and status updates and your account has been blocked or restricted by Facebook due to exceeding posts, copy the bold text at the end of this note and paste it to comments. A Facebook technician will use a procedure to find your profile and take care of the problem. Please share this note with your friends!
اگر شما ایرانی هستید یا به ایرانی ها در مبارزه شان کمک می کنید و حساب فیس بوک شما به دلیل پست های زیاد بسته یا محدود شده، نوشته پر رنگی را که در انتهای این پیام هست کپی کنید و در قسمت نظرات دوباره پست کنید. یکی از تکنیسین های فیس بوک به وسیله یک برنامه پروفایل شما را پیدا کرده و مشکل شما را برطرف خواهد کرد. لطفا این پیام را برای همه دوستانتان بفرستید
اگر شما ایرانی هستید یا به ایرانی ها در مبارزه شان کمک می کنید و حساب فیس بوک شما به دلیل پست های زیاد بسته یا محدود شده، نوشته پر رنگی را که در انتهای این پیام هست کپی کنید و در قسمت نظرات دوباره پست کنید. یکی از تکنیسین های فیس بوک به وسیله یک برنامه پروفایل شما را پیدا کرده و مشکل شما را برطرف خواهد کرد. لطفا این پیام را برای همه دوستانتان بفرستید
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RT Iran: Again we say thank you to our friends who are helping from outside - you know who you are - Sea of Green - #Iranelection #neda
...8. Tuesday has been declared a national strike by Mousavi and his backers. Already close to half of the shops in Tehran were closed on Sunday. (Sunday is not a holiday in Iran; Friday is.) It has been reported that in the provinces, people are excited about the news and many important figures in provinces are openly or secretly backing the call. The government is threatening people that they’ll be fired if they didn’t show up at their jobs on Tuesday.
9. Thursday, rallies will be held in Tehran. The location of the major rally in the city has not been disclosed. According to sources, this has been done so that the government couldn’t be prepared. In anticipation, the government has placed thousands of police and Basiji inside Tehran, turning stadiums into headquarters and areas for gathering for these security forces.
10. Our sources have strongly denounced the commercialization of the Sea of Green (That’s what most of them call the protests) by various people around the world. They have especially disliked how some people put advertisements on twitter with #iran or #iranelection on them as well as #neda. They have also shown outrage over the fact that Nokia and Siemens were exposed to have supplied the Iranian government with equipment to help censor their voices on the internet and over cell phones.
9. Thursday, rallies will be held in Tehran. The location of the major rally in the city has not been disclosed. According to sources, this has been done so that the government couldn’t be prepared. In anticipation, the government has placed thousands of police and Basiji inside Tehran, turning stadiums into headquarters and areas for gathering for these security forces.
10. Our sources have strongly denounced the commercialization of the Sea of Green (That’s what most of them call the protests) by various people around the world. They have especially disliked how some people put advertisements on twitter with #iran or #iranelection on them as well as #neda. They have also shown outrage over the fact that Nokia and Siemens were exposed to have supplied the Iranian government with equipment to help censor their voices on the internet and over cell phones.
Shah's son comes out on side of protesters!
10:10 PM ET -- A 19-year-old shot in the head and killed during the demonstrations... and Iranian officials asked his parents to "pay an equivalent of $3,000 as a 'bullet fee' -- a fee for the bullet used by security forces -- before taking the body back." One of the most tragic stories I've read in a long time, by the Wall Street Journal's exceptional Farnaz Fassihi. @HuffPo
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"I cannot sleep and not write this.
Today in Haft-e Tir, there were so many members of basij that they outnumbered the demonstrators 3 or 4 to 1. They were less focused on women. This must be related to the murder of poor Neda. And this was also why whenever they got hold of a man, women would surround them and shout don’t beat him, don’t beat and they would turn and anxiously say we didn’t beat him. It was astonishing. They explained; they talked.
But they didn’t allow us to congregate; they kept telling us to walk and the crowd walked quietly for 2 hours in the circle (meydaan) and spontaneously gathered in whichever area they were not present. About 2000 of us were walking around the circle and only shouting Allah-o Akbar until they were forced to disperse us with tear and pepper gases. I thought people’s patience and persistence was great, although there were also many bad scenes and I cried.
They arrested a whole bus load of people. There were many intelligence folks in the crowd too. They would point to a person and the basijis would arrest that person. There was no one from Sepah and the police was obviously sympathetic to the crowd. I swear some of the Basijis were only 14 or 15, or at least what they looked like to me. On the other hand, women are playing an amazing role in the streets; both in terms of numbers and effectiveness."
@NIAC
6:00 PM ET -- Google moves quickly. In the course of a few hours, it spikes a blog using Google's publishing service to post photos of the demonstrators to collect their personal information.
@HuffPo
TEHRANBUREAU
This site is asking for people to identify the protesters obviously for the security forces.
As they say time to fire the lazers I think!!!
Today in Haft-e Tir, there were so many members of basij that they outnumbered the demonstrators 3 or 4 to 1. They were less focused on women. This must be related to the murder of poor Neda. And this was also why whenever they got hold of a man, women would surround them and shout don’t beat him, don’t beat and they would turn and anxiously say we didn’t beat him. It was astonishing. They explained; they talked.
But they didn’t allow us to congregate; they kept telling us to walk and the crowd walked quietly for 2 hours in the circle (meydaan) and spontaneously gathered in whichever area they were not present. About 2000 of us were walking around the circle and only shouting Allah-o Akbar until they were forced to disperse us with tear and pepper gases. I thought people’s patience and persistence was great, although there were also many bad scenes and I cried.
They arrested a whole bus load of people. There were many intelligence folks in the crowd too. They would point to a person and the basijis would arrest that person. There was no one from Sepah and the police was obviously sympathetic to the crowd. I swear some of the Basijis were only 14 or 15, or at least what they looked like to me. On the other hand, women are playing an amazing role in the streets; both in terms of numbers and effectiveness."
@NIAC
6:00 PM ET -- Google moves quickly. In the course of a few hours, it spikes a blog using Google's publishing service to post photos of the demonstrators to collect their personal information.
@HuffPo
TEHRANBUREAU
This site is asking for people to identify the protesters obviously for the security forces.
As they say time to fire the lazers I think!!!
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