Tuesday 30 June 2009

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#47)

Important news: Persian Kiwi is not arrested, but he does not have access to internet.

Saeed Valadbaygi Office of the Islamic Association of Sistan and Baluchestan University set on fire by anonymous people.

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Right Now @ Tehran

On Parkway right now people are beeping their horns, and basij has responded by smashing their windscreens and slashing their tires
People had announced that they will form a human chain from Tajrish sq to Railway Today
The cellphones are down in Valieasr street and surronding area.
Police and plain clothes forces are settled across the Valiasr street to disallow the protesters to make a human-chain.
Daneshju Park is full of Basij and special gaurds and militia forces are being organized in the park for dealing with the possible protest or human chain.
Students of Science and Technology university put a photo of martyr Kianoosh Asa on the university's academic staff board..

@RevolutionaryRoad

Feminist waves in the Iranian Green Tsunami?@TehranBureau

Iran: More on “Two Twitterers” (and on the Idiocy of “The Times”)

10:50 AM -- Adventures in propaganda: Basiji "impostors." From Iran's state media: "Iranian police officials have reportedly arrested the armed imposters [sic] who posed as security forces during post-election violence in the country. Iran's Basij commander, Hossein Taeb, said Monday that the imposters [sic] had worn police and Basij uniforms to infiltrate the rallies and create havoc."@HuffPo

PERSEPOLIS 2.0

Iran's Post-Election Uprising: Hopes & Fears Revealed

Graphic novelisation
Here
Via 'Boingboing'

Monday 29 June 2009

Iran continued...

Neda Agha Soltan Death: Ahmadinejad Orders Investigation Into Killing@HuffPo

The Thugs Who Lead Iran's Supreme Leader /GarySick

Green Brief 12

Iran 'has arrested 2,000’ in violent crackdown on dissent@TheTimes

Cannabis-Psychosis link not caused by dopamine increase

There is now growing evidence that cannabis use causes a small but reliable increase in the chance of developing psychosis. Traditionally, this was explained by the drug increasing dopamine levels in the brain but a new study shortly to be published in NeuroImage suggests that the active ingredient in cannabis doesn’t effect this important neurotransmitter.

Despite some dissenting voices, disruption to the mesolimbic dopamine pathway is widely thought to be the key problem in the development of delusions, hallucinations and the other psychotic symptoms commonly diagnosed as schizophrenia.

This has led to the assumption that the small increased risk of psychosis reliably associated with cannabis use is due to the drug increasing dopamine levels in a deep brain structure called the striatum.

In itself, this is partly based on another assumption - the virtual mantra of recreational drug research that ‘all drugs of abuse increase dopamine levels in the reward system’ of which the striatum is a part.

This new study, led by neuroscientist Paul Stokes, tested dopamine levels by using a type of PET brain scan where participants are injected with a radioactive tracer that binds to free dopamine receptors. Higher dopamine levels will mean that there are less free dopamine receptors and, therefore, lower tracer levels.
@RenegadeFuturist

Roddy Radiation & The Tearjerkers - Desire

Slim seen here modeling the Tearjerkers log on the back of his jacket!
(I still have my Tearjerkers denim jacket but unfortunately the 'Ruth Ellis' t-shirt had to be binned after nearly 30 years!)

Smoking # 22 (For Mogodonia!)

This .gif was liberated by me!

I gave it its freedom from a site run by a thief!
If you are the original creator and/or uploader...
please get in touch for a full credit!

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Thousands of Iranians ignore threats, march in rally@LATimes

Photos @Demotix

I could have settled for Michael Jackson

Hich-Kas: Bunch of Soldiers

Hip-Hop direct from the streets of Tehran, Iran. Hich-Kas drops this trak. Cultures of Resistance helped produce the video and now bringin' it. East, West, North, South. Don't matter where you're from. Beats are universal and music can be a way to understand eachother even when governments and media prefer we not make the effort

Bloggers Unite For A Free Iran

Today in Iran there are bloggers languishing in jail for attempting to get the truth out to the world of what is presently happening in their country.
To the readers from free nations please take time out to think for a moment how much you take your freedom for granted!

Here.

Sussan Deyhim - Orchestral Performance

Sussan Deyhim

Downtime/

THE HUFFINGTON POST
DAILY DISH
NIAC
THE LEDE
REVOLUTIONARY 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/

Karroubi at today's rally

A picture says a thousand words...

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"The Mugabe of Iran and a prayer for Peace"

I am an Englishman, so no doubt Ayatollah Ali Khameini would call me "Satan" and "A Snake", and in return all I see is the Mugabe of Iran, a petty old man clinging to power and willing to see innocent men, women and children be beaten, tortured and murdered in order to retain his power. Is controlling other people now his obsession?

In Torquay in 1979 I taught English as a Foreign Language and some of my students were Iranians, my age or slightly younger. I still think of them as my brothers and sisters and I remember vividly the stories they told: of their hate for the puppet dictator the Shah, of their fear of "the midnight knock" when members of Savak would come to the door and take away family members, who were never seen again. The early and mid-1970s were days of fear and repression, of brutality by the secret police. How little times change, now we are back to the days of Savak, thanks to Ali Khameini and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Yes, I remember 1979 and I remember too my students' joy when the brave Ayatollah Khomeini returned to his country and gave his people a taste of freedom, for the first time in years they could speak freely to one another again of their hopes and dreams. I remember too the admiration and respect that I felt for a spiritual leader called Hossein Ali Montazeri (حسین علی منتظری), now a Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, who was and still is a superior being who cares deeply for the welfare of his people. Unfortunately, after the passing of Ayatollah Khomeini, the wrong man came to power.

I should like to pay my respects to Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, to my students of 30 years ago Jahla and Mohsen and all the Iranians I have known, and please, people of Iran, do not forget young ندا (Neda) and the other innocents who have been murdered these last few weeks while they were peacefully marching. It is said that Neda means "voice of the people",now you will have to speak well of her and the others who have died, speak well and remember them, and do not allow their names and characters to be dragged through the dust under the label of "terrorist", as Ahmadinejad would like. Let truth and peace shine over all, and let the souls of the dead rest in peace and love.

With respect

Graham Cunnington, UK
Comment here
Well Said!

RT IRAN Mousavi could not join people today but apparently he's spoken to them through a mobile & a loudspeaker. #iranelection #Iran less than 10 seconds ago from web

Are Senior Clerics As Divided As Iran? Audio @NPR

@BBC

Clashes around Ghoba mosque have intensified & forces are heavily beating people to disperse them. #iranelection #gr88 less than 20 seconds ago from TwitterFox

PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD

Iran update - Revolution 2.0 (Refresh page)

نداي آزادي

Iranian police clash with up to 3,000 protesters@chron

Again! BreakingNewsAP: Witnesses say Iranian police fire tear gas in clashes with up to 3,000 protesters in Tehran. #iranelection #freeiran less than 10 seconds ago from web

Influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, seen by analysts as a possible mediator in any effort to defuse the election row, called for a thorough examination of complaints.

He praised a decision by Khamenei last week to extend a deadline for the Guardian Council to receive and look into objections by defeated candidates, the ISNA news agency reported.

"I hope those who are involved in this issue thoroughly and fairly review and study the legal complaints," Rafsanjani said.

Breaking his post-election silence, he described events after the vote as a conspiracy by suspicious elements aimed at dividing people and the Islamic system, and also targeting people's trust in it. "Wherever the people entered the scene with full alertness, such plots were foiled," the ISNA and IRNA news agencies quoted him as saying, without elaborating.

Rafsanjani, who has occupied key posts since the founding of the Islamic Republic, backed Mousavi's election campaign and was fiercely criticized by Ahmadinejad on television.

@HuffPo

Anti-Riot Vans Moving toward Shariati, St, Clashes at Mohseni SQ. #iranelection half a minute ago from web

The Persian Lioness: Iranian Women in History

]مسجد قبا-شریعتی-هفتم تیر

تجمع مردم معترض به نتایج انتخابات-هفتم تیر ماه 88 رو به روی مسج

قبا واقع در محدوده خیابان شریعتی

Helicopters Flying Over ppl &Anti-Riot Police Asking ppl to leave, The Meeting is Cancled! But ppl Staying in the St. #iranelection less than 10 seconds ago from UberTwitter

Authorities are riding on motorcycles alongside the marchers, who are telling each other to walk slowly and drag their feet, a CNN producer reported. Police are telling the demonstrators to move faster, said the producer, who CNN is not naming for security reasons.

The marchers are walking from north to south down a major street, Shariati Street, near the Ghoba Mosque, where a memorial is being held in honor of a hero of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Some of the protesters are telling the police that they have the legal right to protest in peace, the CNN journalist said.