Ongoing LIVE THREAD- IRANIAN ELECTION & PROTEST NEWS

various | 15 June 2009

[hyperconservative]

via almost-at site:
http://www.rferl.org/section/Iran+Presidential+Election/733.html

[SE Mom]

Here are some useful URL’S for keeping up:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/tweets-from-the-green-revolution-a-turning-tide.html

http://twitter.com/persiankiwi

http://www.michaeltotten.com

http://twitter.com/iran

[COBOL2Java]

And the Drive By’s try to supress full coverage of the protests, because it might reflect negatively on Zero’s capabilities to enact “change” you can believe in...

[SE Mom]

ping for lists

[hyperconservative]

and another:

http://almost.at/#iran

[Constitution Day]

http://crowdstatus.com/iranelectioncrowd.aspx

[SE Mom]

CNN tried hard yesterday to make up for its lack of coverage on Saturday- in fact they had a two hour “special live coverage” from 10-12 last night...kind of like bribery!

This from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/stop_the_blocking_now.html

BBC audiences in Iran, the Middle East and Europe may be experiencing disruption to their BBC TV or radio services today. That is because there is heavy electronic jamming of one of the satellites the BBC uses in the Middle East to broadcast the BBC Persian TV signal to Iran.

Satellite technicians have traced that interference and it is coming from Iran. There has been intermittent interference from Iran since Friday, but this is the heaviest yet.

It seems to be part of a pattern of behaviour by the Iranian authorities to limit the reporting of the aftermath of the disputed election. In Tehran, John Simpson and his cameraman were briefly arrested after they had filmed the material for this piece. And at least one news agency in Tehran has come under pressure not to distribute internationally any pictures it might have of demonstrations on the streets in Iran.

~snip~

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I’m monitoring some folks twittering from Iran. One twitterer, called Persiankiwi, gave the following reports over about the last half hour (goes from oldest to newest)

unconfirmed - students killed last night at Tehran Uni dorms. #Iranelection

no confirmed sighting of Khatami yet. #Iranelection

Ferdowsi Ave - confirmed - thousands marching - peaceful. #Iranelection

Valli Asr st closed to traffic - tens of thousands marching - unbelievable sight. #Iranelection

I cannot see directly from my position but am being told many many people in streets - too many to count. #Iranelection

have secured good proxy service. cannot display adds - will be cut as soon as displayed. #Iranelection

we have 40kb speed now. will post as fast as possible. #Iranelection

have spoken with Ahwaz. am told demos are not peaceful there. #Iranelection

unconfirmed - Mashad is violent. #Iranelection

unconfirmed as yet - mousavi newspaper offices raided. #Iranelection

tehran is at standstill. all major routes jammed with people. #Iranelection

we do not know if foreign press are covering this. we cannot access satellites. #Iranelection

tonight we will have film from march for u. #Iranelection

informed Karoubi and Mousavi are at different parts of rally. no sighting of khatami yet. #Iranelection

[Bahbah]

Thanks for the ping.

At this point, I am guessing that this is going to be quashed by the mullahs, but I hope I am wrong.

[penelopesire]

Wow..Fox showing opposition rally right now! Millions of people!

[SE Mom]

I tend to agree- however- last night I read a long piece (wish I had even a vague memory of where) by someone well-versed in Iranian ways. He said it’s not JUST about the protests we’re seeing- it’s also within the government itself- the mullahs aren’t in agreement about this and there may be splintering going on.

I don’t think Moussavi is necessarily better for the West than MadMood- but it’s a start.

FOX showing now live- HUGE, HUGE crowds in the streets.

Government says the “consequences of the demonstrations are the responsibility of Moussavi and others”...

[Dixie Yooper]

Unless they can get at least the same number of protesters out for this that they had during the early days of the 1979 hostage crisis, the government will kill as many as it takes to quash this uprising. I predict another Tienanmen Square style military act.

[SE Mom]

List of active twitters from Sullivan’s site.

http://twitter.com/azarnoush
http://twitter.com/jadi
http://twitter.com/tehranbureau
http://twitter.com/hamednz
http://twitter.com/Shahrzadmo
http://twitter.com/knv
http://twitter.com/mousavi1388
http://twitter.com/sasan_j
http://twitter.com/smileofcrash
http://twitter.com/alirezasha
http://twitter.com/IranElection09
http://twitter.com/Change_for_Iran
http://twitter.com/IranRiggedElect
http://twitter.com/madyar
http://twitter.com/TehranBureau
http://twitter.com/iran09
http://twitter.com/y_shar
http://twitter.com/Change_for_Iran
http://twitter.com/StopAhmadi
http://twitter.com/smileofcrash
http://twitter.com/Mynumberone1988
http://twitter.com/iranbaan

[jhpigott]

BBC News reporting opposition has called off the demonstration rally scheduled for 4pm in Iran. Reports indicate that Iranian police and troops have been given orders to use LIVE FIRE to put down the protests. This appears to mean firing on large crowds a la’ Tiananmen square style.

[SE Mom]

Maybe they’re in a “quagmire” at the moment. There are still some foreign journalists on the ground- and plenty of twittering. Visas run out for the press in a day or two so they may be waiting til no one outside can report.

Very tense.

[marshmallow]

Wish list.

1) Khamenei swinging from a rope underneath Freedom Arch.

2) The little Holocaust-denying creep whose name I can't spell, flogged mercilessly in public and then executed.

3) The Revolutionary Council stripped of their robes and paraded naked through Tehran.

4) Disintegration of the Islamic Republic and mass conversions to Christianity.

[meandog]

“It is not the number of votes that counts, it is who is doing the counting that counts!”—Josef Stalin

[Jen]

http://tehranlive.org/

Blog with video and lots of good photos

[mmichaels1970]

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