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The Atlantic Dish by Andrew Sullivan
have to go my dear…the shouts are getting louder and louder. [end quote] 10 minutes ago from web
I had so many long days without sleep, I did not find time to do more. …oh gun shots!!! I hope it is in the air only… 10 minutes ago from web
Now people are shouting “Death to dictator” all around Elahieh… 11 minutes ago from web
Students activists told me they know that two students also were killed in Isfahan Sanaati [technical] university. 12 minutes ago from web
Also Art University and Allameh dorms were attacked. 13 minutes ago from web
Some died as they were being beaten. 14 minutes ago from web
I talked to 2 students who were present during the attack [on the university dormitory], it was heart breaking. 14 minutes ago from web
Also all press permits have been canceled; there is a Revolutionary Guard decree that journalists be barred from working. 15 minutes ago from web
they were ordered to pack their things and leave for their provinces. 17 minutes ago from web
80 students were freed yesterday in front of Tehran University dormitory. 17 minutes ago from web
Now [about 40 minutes ago] I hear people are chanting Allohakbar on their roof-tops, on all roof tops, it is stronger than any day [so far]. 18 minutes ago from web
50 professor resigned yesterday and were asking for the body of killed students. 19 minutes ago from web
EARLIER NEWS:
Confirmed – Iranian National Football Team show support for Mousavi – sea of green
Six Iranian soccer players wore green wristbands as protest. (Photo Lee Jin-man / AP)
“Aslan: Rafsanjani calls “emergency” meeting of Assembly of Experts in Qom.” This is unbelievable and amazing!
10:30 AM Protest at Azad University north branch, they are too loud
Unconfirmed: Several Military Generals have been detained or arrested. They rejected the call to help the govn’t fight people.
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Read BooMan’s fp diary – What to Make of Terror Free Tomorrow’s Poll
As a prelude, Mousavi has already bypassed the Supreme Leader, sending an open letter to the powerful mullahcracy in Qom asking them to invalidate the election. Hojjatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, head of the election vote-monitoring committee, has officially requested that the Council of Guardians void the election and schedule a new, fully monitored one.
One of the stalwarts of Qom power, the moderate Grand Ayatollah Sanei, who had issued a fatwa against vote rigging, calling it a “mortal sin”, has already declared the Ahmadinejad presidency “illegitimate”. His house and office are now under police siege. Iranians eagerly expect a public pronouncement from Grand Ayatollah Muntazeri, the country’s true top religious figure (not Khamenei) and a certified anti-ultra-right wing.
Even more strikingly, a group of Ministry of Interior employees sent an open letter to the chairman of the Council of Experts (Rafsanjani), the president of the parliament (Majlis), former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, the heads of the legislative and the judiciary, and many other government agencies. The crucial paragraph reads: “As dedicated employees of the Ministry of Interior, with experience in management and supervision of several elections such as the elections of Khamenei, Rafsanjani and Khatami, we announce that we fear the 10th presidential elections were not healthy.”
The Islamic Combatant Clergy Association (ICCA), close to Khatami and supportive of Mousavi, said on its website that the counting process was “widely engineered [manipulated]”, and there was enough evidence to prove it. So for the ICCA, the election should be nullified.
Mohsen Rezai, who ran as a conservative and who is nothing less than a former head of the IRGC, also sent a letter to the Council of Guardians saying the election was illegitimate.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
(NYT) – Mr. Moussavi was a staunch leftist in an era when such leaders admired Che Guevara, and he served as prime minister of Iran during the 1980s when postrevolutionary battles with guerrilla movements left between 10,000 and 20,000 people dead, noted Professor Cole. He is viewed as a much tougher fighter than Mr. Khatami, an ayatollah who came from the very clerical class that runs the country.
“Moussavi was around in some tough times, he has not shown any signs of being intimidated by all this,” said Gary Sick, a senior scholar at Columbia University who runs the Persian Gulf research and information Web site called Gulf 2000. Just how far Mr. Moussavi takes the mantle of leadership is another unanswered question — the demonstrations will have to continue for the demands for change to yield results, he said.
Finally, there has been a critical shift in alliances. In the earlier uprisings, it was basically the reformists calling for change, opposed by both the religious hard-liners and the more pragmatic conservatives. This time, the pragmatists and the reformists have joined forces against the hard-liners, analysts said.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
Anonymous–the infamous, faceless hacker group–creates a guide to evading Iranian censors.
Anonymous, an amorphous band of hackers best known for rallying against the Church of Scientology, has jumped into Iranian election dispute. Working with The Pirate Bay–a massively trafficked site which helps point would-be music downloaders to what they’re looking for–Anonymous Iran has created a new site, offering how-tos on surfing online while remaining untrackable, skirting Iranian firewalls, finding other Twitter-based activists and (of course, given that this is Anonymous) attacking government Web sites.
Anonymous isn’t alone of course: Several guides to internet etiquette when helping the Iranian movement have been posted online.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."