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A few people in Iran are a little upset over the election
doubleplusundead —
A few people in Iran are a little upset over the election From IranElection09's twitterfeed , where you can find the latest updates on the Iranian election protests. Rodrigomx of BNONews is assembling a collection of photos from various sources. Excitable Andi has a post up saying that professors at the University of Tehran have resigned en masse to protest the militia raid of the boys' dorm . (Link is safe per douchebag policy, it's pictures of the dorm raid.) Imagine how different this might all be if Saddam Hussein were in a position to send over troops to help support Ahmadinejad. Even if Ahmadinejad succeeds in pulling off this farce of an election, ...
Some Football Match, Mr Ahmadinejad. Some Crowd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The numbers are growing. The momentum is building:
Supreme Leader Orders Probe of Iran Election Fraud
Library Grape —
I have no idea how to digest this but it strikes me as a welcome sign: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered an investigation into claims of fraud in the contested presidential elections held last Friday. The surprising announcement on Iran's state television comes hours after the government banned a planned protest by supporters of defeated opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran and other Iranian cities. Khamenei has asked the exclusive Guardian Council to examine charges by Mousavi of widespread vote rigging during the election. More video of the millions of people in the ...
Tehran
Obsidian Wings —
by hilzoy Here's video of the demonstration in Tehran. As you watch it, bear in mind not just that the demonstration had been banned, which means that all these people are breaking the law, but that there were rumors on various Iranian Twitter feeds that the demonstration had been cancelled, that the police had been authorized to use live fire, etc. ...
Critical Mass?
Weekly Standard Blog —
Watch the latest protests in Tehran:
Via Andrew Sullivan
Pence Demagoguery Of Iran Is The Perfect Example Of His Unfitness For Office
DownWithTyranny! —
Earlier today I mentioned about how Eisenhower handled the Suez War in October, 1956. Simultaneously he was dealing with an uprising of Hungarian students that turned into a full-fledged revolt against the Soviet Union. Hungarian partisans took on Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest and, for a few days, it looked like they actually won their country's freedom. Through Radio Free Europe the U.S. appealed to Hungarians to rise up and fight the Soviets, going so far as to give tactical advise on resistance-- and not of non-violent kind. Radio Free Europe, a right-wing, C.I.A.-supported enterprise funded by U.S. taxpayers, certainly led Hungarians to believe that ...
Tehran
Political Animal —
Tehran Here's video of the demonstration in Tehran. As you watch it, bear in mind not just that the demonstration had been banned, which means that all these people are breaking the law, but that there were rumors on various Iranian Twitter feeds that the demonstration had been cancelled, that the police had been authorized to use live fire, etc. — Hilzoy ...
Video- 15th June 2009 Millions protest against election fraud in Iran
The Political Carnival —
I wish I could believe that this will really make some change. Check out some amazing photos here.
Good news: State Department refuses to condemn Iranian crackdown
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Good news: State Department refuses to condemn Iranian crackdown posted at 3:45 pm on June 15, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly So says Fox News , via the Standard . Lefties keep assuring me on Twitter that western meddling will only make it easier for the regime to demonize the protesters, but (a) the demonization’s going to happen anyway, (b) no one’s asking Obama to send in the Marines, just to speak up, and (c) Angela Merkel managed to issue a statement earlier today calling the Basij thuggery “completely unacceptable” without killing the uprising in its crib. And still, from the ...
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 15)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
9:21 PM ET -- Carrying the wounded. Two videos of what appear to be the same event -- a bloodied, unconscious young man being carried through the throngs:
9:09 PM ET -- Any American Idol connections to the Iran election? We might be able to get Larry King to cover it.
Thank you, thank you, for your updates on Iran. I'm not ordinarily a big fan of Huff Post, but you're doing the American people a REAL service right now with your updates.
Andrew Sullivan at the ...
Iran Roundup: Inside an Internet-Charged Resistance
techPresident —
iran Yesterday we did a roundup of what's happening at the intersection of technology and politics in and around Iran, which is an admittedly one perspective on a complex picture. Today, we'll do another. One thing that seems to be becoming somewhat clear in this swirl of events is that, as far as new media goes, what is taking place in Iran is bigger than Twitter -- or Facebook, or Flickr, or YouTube, or blogs, or email, or any other one tool. To indulge in the "[Insert technology] + Revolution" construct, there's fair evidence that the last week in Iranian is perhaps best understood as an "Internet Revolution." There's a fluidity developed over decades of ...
