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Old 06-26-2009   #91 (permalink)
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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=16a5h1h&s=5

Maybe everyone should have done this at the same time or something.
I've only seen one or two videos of people doing it though so far.
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Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

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Update | 12:13 p.m. From Tehran, the BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports on Friday:

In the centre of Tehran there are many fewer security forces on the streets. A stadium where Basij militia - an arm of the Revolutionary Guard - were based is now being used for sport again. But the power of the regime is not far from the surface. On the main avenues black cars with the words special police painted on them move steadily through the traffic, each one containing four or five men in camouflage uniforms.

It has been much quieter these last few days. One elderly witness said she felt it was the calm of the grave. [...]

A hint of what was coming was on display in the rancorous debates between the candidates before the vote. But that was nothing to what has followed. When you ask Iranians about the way this might go, a phrase keeps cropping up. They say it might seem quiet to an outsider, but there is fire below the ashes.
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Hmmm, I haven't seen any updates from the Guardian blog today and the New York Times one already stopped for the day hours ago and is taking the weekend off.

Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com


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Update | 12:32 p.m. The Lede will return on Monday with more updates on the protests in Iran. In the meantime, please see the home page of NYTimes.com for any new developments. Thanks for all your comments and links.
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

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26 Jun 2009 12:56 pm
Tweeting Wolf, Ctd

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Regarding 'Tweeting Wolf' and the 'Baharestan Square Massacre'. I saw this article on the website for the French newspaper Le Monde this morning: Entitled 'Witnesses from Iran' it interviewed three Iranians about the violence on Wednesday. One of the witness, 'M. habite a Teheran', went to Baharestan Square after the violence and spoke to some of the shop keepers in the square. They told him that:

"Then, all of a sudden, hundreds of Basiji came out of the Hedayat Mosque. They were dressed in black and carried batons, knives and axes! Can you believe that? They started to beat the people with their weapons. The shop keepers told me that they particularly took on the women and that they insulted them. [...]

I went then towards Saadi Street, where some shops were burnt. I was told that their proprietors had opened their shops to allow the demonstrators to enter and that they had been attacked by the Basiji. The shopkeepers also told me that the Basiji had pushed some people from the pedestrian bridge that overhangs Saadi Street. No-one knew the number of victims, but it must be high."

This is a third hand report, not proof, but I don't think we should assume that the tweets and CNN phone call on Wednesday were false.
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Finally seeing some endorsement of protest (imo) from Arab world Jordan Times
Reposted this on Facebook and MySpace, thanks. In the wake of MJ, FF, and other things, it's good to be able to keep this in people's minds. Americans, anyway, can be an ADD bunch (and I say this as one).
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Thanks for keeping up with this... finding out what really happened there is important, regardless of whether it was horrible, or banal. However, if even one person was hurt, it's terrible, and if even one was killed, it's horrible.
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More on Sweden.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_221270.html

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2:26 PM ET -- Iranian embassy officials hit demonstrators in Stockholm. Via several readers, three Swedish papers are reporting violence outside the Iranian embassy in Sweden. A reader passes along an English translation of one of the articles:

Iranian embassy employees have beaten demonstrators with batons at a demonstration outside the embassy on Lidingö in Stockholm on Friday afternoon, according to a witness on the spot.

Between ten and twenty demonstrators (of a larger group) broke through the fence and entered the embassy area. People from the embassy turned up with large batons and began to beat the demonstrators, said Roya Hakimnia, a 24-year-old medical student that was participating in the demonstration.

She saw more people, men and women, hit by baton strikes, but says that no one seems to have been seriously injured.

The incident took place around 4.30 (local time). The demonstrators were unarmed but had earlier thrown stones into the area, where several embassy staff was walking around on the lawn observing the demonstration.

They were perhaps five black-dressed guards, they were beating people with big sticks, like batons but larger.

Roya Hakimnia say that people shouted "Death to the Islamic Republic!" and "Death to dictator!" In the bitter atmosphere, some participants talked about storming the embassy, but many others argued against it. (....)

A woman with a megaphone shouted in Persian: "Don't throw stones. Please stop! Police are here, we have permission (for this demonstration), but are not allowed to throw stones! (....)

According to Swedish police, around 150 people were outside the embassy area. One person were detained by the police.

Sweden is set to take over the EU presidency on July 1. Readers tell me there is a large Iranian expatriate community there.

Update: Here's video -- the crowd at various points chants "Death to the Islamic Republic!" and some scuffles break out at around 1:15. Much more video from the demonstrations here.
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Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Friday June 26)

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3:24 PM ET -- Ahmadinejad supporters reportedly targeting Larijani. As we've been documenting, Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, has consistently been a thorn in the side of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad in recent days. Larijani is no great friend of Mousavi's, but he reportedly dislikes Ahmadinejad strongly, and has been acting as an agitator in the parliament, condemning the government's crackdown on students and questioning the legitimacy of the election.

Today, the news site Tabnak reports that Ahmadinejad supporters have threatened Larijani with a vote of no confidence because of his alleged indirect support for Mousavi.

Yesterday, the Open Society Institute published an analysis of how Larijani and a group of high-ranking family members and loyalists have become a third force in the post-election unrest.

The Larijani faction is still coalescing, drawing support mainly from right-leaning politicians and military officers, who, prior to the outbreak of Iran's political crisis on June 12, tended to be conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... So far, the new faction has not enunciated a philosophical platform, but it seems that its leaders view the recent upheaval as a threat to the Islamic Republic, and they are dedicated to working to preserve the existing system.

Ali Larijani is emerging as the public face of the faction, but behind him stand his very influential brothers and other relatives, according to a well-connected source. One of Larijani's brothers is Sadegh, who is one of the 12 members of the powerful Guardian Council. Another is Mohammad Javad, a physicist and prominent political strategist. The Larijanis' cousin, Ahmad Tavakoli, a prominent rightist politician and a member of parliament, is also believed to be an important player in the faction, as is Ali Motahari, another prominent rightist political operator who is Ali Larijani's son-in-law.

The Larijanis' father was Grand Ayatollah Hashem Amoli, a leading Shi'a scholar who died in 1993. This paternal connection provides the Larijanis with strong ties to religious leaders in the holy city of Qom.
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Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Friday June 26)

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4:57 PM ET -- Former Revolutionary Guard members charges "military coup." Via reader Carolina, NPR interviews Mohsen Sazegara, an Iranian dissident now living in Washington DC who helped found the Revolutionary Guard after 1979.

Right after the election, 11 o'clock at night, was a military coup because they went to (presidential candidate Mir Hossein) Mousavi's headquarters -- five persons from the Revolutionary Guard -- and told him that, 'Yes, the leader says that this is true, you have won the election, you are the elected president, but you can't be the president. (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad should remain in the position.'


"And then they started to invent those fake numbers in Ministry of Interior. And right after that they started to arrest the people, to disconnect the country, to dismiss the reporters, and that is the reason that we call it a military coup."
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5:56 PM ET -- Iran embassy in Switzerland hit by firebomb. From a reader: "I have some pics of a protest in Bern, Switzerland. It first startet off peacefully, but one man threw a molotov cocktail at the outer wall of the Iranian embassy."


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You can see the man who apparently threw the explosive standing in the background next to the fire:
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