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Video: Iranian protesters rout police; Rumor: Split in the Revolutionary Guard?
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... Internet communications, there’s danger around every corner, real or virtual. It’s come to this : One regular protester, 20-year-old student Behrooz, told the BBC that protesters were aware their electronic communications were being monitored.“We know that some of them are tracking us on our phone,” he said. “When we say certain words… such as ’supreme leader’ or ‘demonstration’ our lines are cut.” The way forward now, I presume, is the sort of mass strike Mousavi’s reportedly calling for followed by some type of dramatic gesture by the clerics to galvanize the people. ...
Iranian Gov’t Thugs Taking Over The Streets? And Liberal Upset With Protesters
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... in another city or province to which people often travel or commute.
Allah:
The Iranian twitterers I follow sound increasingly frightened and paranoid this morning, and with good reason: Between the massive Basij presence in the streets, the new threats from the Revolutionary Guard, and the Journal’s report of how deeply the regime has penetrated Internet communications, there’s danger around every corner, real or virtual. It’s come to this:
One regular protester, 20-year-old student Behrooz, told the BBC that ...
No Mourning in Tehran
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... ] Via BBC : The fiance of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose violent death during clashes in Tehran on Saturday was recorded on video and uploaded to the internet, has described the events leading up to her shooting in an interview for BBC Persian TV. She had been sitting with her music teacher in a car, stuck in traffic, when she decided to get out because of the heat. "She got out of the car for just for a few minutes [and] that's when she was shot dead," said Kaspin Makan. Mr Makan quoted eyewitnesses as saying she appeared to have been targeted deliberately by ...
