URGENT: Use Twitter to help Iranian protestors.

Americans supporting Iranian liberty & those fighting for it ^ | June 19, 2009 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

I just got this note from another poster and twitter on the Americans supporting Iranian liberty & those fighting for it site on Facebook.

This is pertinent right now to the situation in Iran.

Twitter Folks-set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians' access to the internet down.

We have to help protect the Freedom Fighters.

Please pass the word. There are ways we can help. This is one of those ways.

[mockingbyrd]

I used it as a Facebook status update as well. Spread the word.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[DoughtyOne]

Twitter ping...

[Jeff Head]

Sign up. Find people/groups to "follow" (ie. go to http://www.twitter.com/Jeff_Head) and click "Follow" under the pic. Start posting comments in your "What are you doing Box". That is a "tweet", you can use commands (like @username message) to post to specific people, or like (#discussionname message) to post to discussions.

Go, go, go. It gets quitre addicting. Live feeds, unedited news from around the world. Use common sense and be careful and it is surprising how much you learn.

[Freedom56v2]

Done earlier tonite. Thanks for your leadership on this.

[Sir_Ed]

Jeff, I can’t contact Twitter anymore, it says “connection refused.”

Is that the normal maintenance they put off to allow the Iran revolution to be tweeted, or something else?

Thanks,

Ed

[Jeff Head]

You are very welcome, thank you for your involvement.

[Jeff Head]

It’s working for me. Could be your server or provider doing maintenance too.

[Freedom56v2]

We have a friend that escaped from Iran with the overthrow of Shah back in the 80s. He was student here and went back to rescue his family—made it out with clothes on back and a couple hundred dollars.

Great family, so we are interested in what happes there.

What is your opinion on the position that some have taken that since both pres. candidates in Iran were Mullah chosen/approved, it doesn’t really matter who wins the election?

I don’t agree with this position, but Have hard it several times and just wonder what others think?

[Jeff Head]

I believe this thing is outrunning the "candidates".

The people of Iran want freedom, not another puppet to tyranical Islamic rule.

I believe we could see the birth or republicanism in Iran, but it may very possibly be very bloody. The Basij and Revoultionary Guard are not likely to go quietly.

The key is, "What will the regular Army do? And will they (say, Like Washington) be willing to create a Republic?

One thing is sure...it is Bush's engagement, support of liberty, and policies that are driving this. Still bearing fruit. Obama is trying like crazy to spin this to his advantage, but we cannot let him lie and try and steal it. His policies would have made this impossible...just as they would have made Iraq impossible.

[Freedom56v2]

Thanks, well-put response to those who would say otherwise.

Yes, it shameful that there are those who would try to take credit for this—just like Al Gore takig credit for the iternet-—such a farce.

Anyway, if you have a ping list, I’d appreciate being on it.

Thanks again!

[Ron C.]

Without going to Twitter, I can see most of the stuff at:

This link!

Latest messages roll in every few seconds, much of it is idiot Americans however.

[porter_knorr]

What WestCoastGal said, you may want to retweet a few people to get seen a bit, and more people will follow you. I look at people who are consistently posting on the subject instead of the trending words.

(I personally would rather see the news, not people expressing opinions about what they are watching on CNN)

If I may, here are the people I see the most new info from:
MichelleMalkin
augustine25
BreakingNews
powerlineblog
Mashable (usually does info stuff, more tech, but they are doing an outstanding job on facebook and twitter with Mousavi’s messages. They are a good resource for twitter tutorials too)
Change_for_Iran (apparently a student and on the scene)
Heytammybruce
Infadelsarecool

(Lucy, sorry I somehow missed this until just now)

[Ron C.]

Also... use this:

TRANSLATE FARSI/PERSIAN twitters into English.

I copy from one, paste into the other and read.

[kcvl]

bttt

[kcvl]

Appeal to the UN on the Situation in Iran

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/omidadvocatescom/sign/

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds good to me. There are only so many options on the time zones at Twitter. I wouldn’t know if there were several time zones in Iran or not, but it should be easy enough to discover if there were more than one, by looking at a map.

[FARS]

Just got this heads up:

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his family and about another dozen people of his close entourage have been moved to a location around the Maidan Azadi (Freedom Square, Tehran), into which numerous tanks have been placed as well as crack riot squads.

The move is to provide him adequate protection in the face of the events in Iran and be close to the new airport from which he can flee the country. Reportedly various means of transportation are ready to move at instant notice.

If nothing else this shows his uncertainty of being able to contain the rebellion and stop it from turning into a full fledged revolution.

In case you missed it, the real statistics on a Ministry of Interior letterhead, leaked by a disgruntled employee will hopefully be posted on AntiMullah when it goes (we hope) back on stream. In the meantime the leaker, named Asgari was killed in a bizarre car accident two days after leaking the true statistic.

The confirmed number of dead in the past 3 days until the midnight of Tuesday 16th June in Iran.

Tehran 23, Shiraz 11, Isfehan 7, Qum 4, Arak 2,
Mash’had 9, Saary 5, Baabol 3, Bushehr 1,
Ahvaz 6, Khorramshahr 4, Tabriz 11, Rezaiyeeh 13,
Maraagheh 2, Kermanshaah 7, Sanandaj 26, Saghez 6,
Baaneh 3, Mahaabaad 12, Karaj 7, Saghez 5, Hamadan 6,
Rasht 4, Bandar Pahlavi 7, Shush & Haft Tappeh 12,
Loristan Province 25, Sistan & Baluchistan province 29
people. The above numbers were released by the Iranian
Students solidarity Movement in Iran, one of the largest
in Iran with over 6000 members.

Since then an estimated hundred more have been killed around the country leading to a count of some 400 killed in the last few days.

HOT NEWS- A senior Revolutionary Guard (Passdar) spokesman has let it be known that his men would not kill or harm fellow Iranians and apologized for any physical damage done so far.

Reports already say they are already turning a blind eye to many head-on instances of conflict with protestors.

He added that his Farsi (Persian) speaking paramilitary troops would not harm fellow countrymen. (Implying that any attacks on protestors would come from men with other non-Iranian languages - such as the Arab Palestinians, Lebanese Hezbollah and some sectors of the Passdars who are beyond control.

Currently, riot squads are brought in from cities other than the one they try to control so that they do not worry about shooting or maiming their own relatives or friends in their hometowns.

Persian tea party type anti-mullah regime demonstrations were held all over the USA and in parts of Europe, including the White House.

Astonishingly it appears the Mojaheddin-e Khalgh (MEK), who detest the Mullahs and vice-versa, have particpated in these organized demonstrations wearing a gold or yellow colored shirt/uniform and appear to have adopted the gold/yellow color as their opposition color as green was used by Mousavi.

With tanks now brought on the scene, Sunday and Monday may result in a Hungarian type of suppression by the Supreme Leader, who will flee the country if the Mousavi/anti-mullah-regime protestors fail to be intimidated and return to their homes.

unlike the late Shah, the Supreme Leader has no qualms to shoot and kill thousands. He receives TEN PERCENT of the oil revenues so has something to protect with the killings more than his title.

Remember that our Sunday morning is Sunday night with a 12-hour (or is it 11 with daylight saving) so as we sleep or stay awake to monitor events, they are taking place. We only hear about them with delay when people return home and twitter or Email us.

Incidentally, Emails still appear to flow both ways to/from Iran.

Also there is a strong leftist trend inside the various movements, specially outside the country. One person defined this by saying that he wants equality so that the son of a high level Mullah does not get preference. Nor should a hairdresser’s assistant grab a flag and order people around as if he were “somebody”.

This confusion exists in many of the young people. Some 70% percent of Iranians are under the age of 30 and are post-revolution children who have little knowledge of any regime other than the Mullah one.

BTW there is only one time zone in Iran.

cheers

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you FARS. That was a nice report.

[FARS]

BTW Reza Pahlavi has begun dismantling the former arguments by Europe and America that the Mullahs were the chosen regime or form of government by the Iranians since they came into place through elections.

Now not only have elections been proven phony but the people of Iran are not protesting just the elections but the existence of the Mullah regime,

So that excuse can no longer hold true and be used to avoid taking action against the Mullahs and replacing them with something else.

Just received a Persian update Email from Iran but am too tired to read and translate it. Perhaps tomorrow.