tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42224977597447465782024-03-19T06:21:11.030+03:30seaofgreenradioSea Of Green RadioFintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-55499173350303096532009-08-12T08:10:00.009+04:302009-08-12T11:46:53.600+04:30Iranian Regime Blinks, Frees French Accused<div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/Afshar.jpg" align="right" />The Iranian government has capitulated in the face of intense diplomatic activity and released one of two high-profile French defendants on trial in Tehran for spying.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Nazak</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Afshar</span>, a member of the French embassy staff in Iran was released from jail by Iranian authorities late Tuesday, following diplomatic efforts and pressure by the EU and French President Nicolas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Sarkozy</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Afshar</span> spoke by phone with the French President and with family members immediately on her release.</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/Reiss.jpg" align="left" />She is among scores imprisoned and accused in what has been widely dubbed a mass show trial. Her prosecution is set to continue despite the release. Another defendant, French teaching assistant <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Clotilde</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Reiss</span> is still in custody. </div><div><br /></div><div>The two women are charged with espionage and conspiracy in a Western plot to overthrow the government. France has dismissed the charges as baseless and a statement from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Sarkozy's</span> office called for all charges against both to be dropped and for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Reiss</span> also to be freed and returned to France. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Sarkozy</span> thanked France's EU partners, and other countries, specifically Syria, as among those who provided support "in this first phase." The use of the term "first phase" indicates that French and EU <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">authorities</span> intend to maintain the pressure on Iran to drop all charges. The bullish tone is likely an indication that the international community feels it is likely to succeed.</div><div><br /></div><div>In <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">retrospect</span> the scale of the mass trial and the decision to charge numbers of foreign or dual-citizenship defendants now looks like a serious miscalculation by the Iranian regime. </div><div><br /></div><div>This concession to the French is a signal development showing the regime is being forced to backpedal to avoid further political fallout from the decision to mount the ambitious show trial of 110 defendants.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Sweden summoned the Iranian ambassador to advise that the European Union was prepared to take unspecified 'further steps' to secure the release of French and British nationals on trial. The Swedes, who currently hold the rotating Presidency of the EU said they considered the detentions were a move against the entire 27-member bloc.</div><div><br /></div><div>“We called in the Iranian ambassador to the foreign ministry to reiterate and reinforce this message and tell him what kind of measures we expect from Iran. On this and other issues," Swedish Foreign Minister Carl <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Bildt</span> said in an interview Tuesday with Swedish Radio. "I think Iran is aware that we are prepared to take steps beyond what we have already done."</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>From the Iranian government perspective the show trial had seemed to offer it advantages in a battle for legitimacy against political opponents. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>It reinforced a propaganda line aimed at loyalists: that Western states, Britain in particular, played a key role in protests aiming for a "soft overthrow" of the Islamic regime. The hapless foreign embassy staff were incidental pawns in this narrative. </div><div><br /></div><div>Including prominent Iranian politicians among the defendants and staging concurrent threats to prosecute leading opposition politicians was intended to intimidate an emerging coalition of political foes.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the strategy was flawed by virtue of an excess of zeal. </div><div><br /></div><div>Domestically the sight of a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">gaunt</span> and disheveled former Vice President Mohammad <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Abtahi</span>, confessing in a televised broadcast, jarred with broad swathes of Iranian political opinion. Any intimidatory effect was outweighed by the trial's appearance of being a Stalinist-era farce with unintended echoes of the regime of the deposed Shah.</div><div><br /></div><div>A measure of the image problem is that even the State-run, PressTV website yesterday placed the word 'confessed' in italics <a href="http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=103162&sectionid=351020101">when describing</a> the released French woman's testimony.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the international effects of the trial have proved to be its <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Achilles</span> heel. The foreign nationals in the trial may indeed have been pawns in the eyes of the Iranian regime, but the EU could and has promoted them into a checkmate move. The inclusion of foreign embassy staff and nationals had crossed key diplomatic protocols in an indefensible manner. The EU has leveraged against that error and can compound it into damaging international isolation of the regime. Thus the backpedaling.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Repression of the type which the Iranian </b><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><b>regime</b></span><b> is attempting requires both brute force and political </b><i><b>nous</b></i><b> or savvy. The brutality has been on vivid display, but the savvy tellingly absent.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The regime continues to implement tactics which are short-term positive and long-term deeply damaging. The first example of such an error was the overarching scale of the killing and detention of peaceful protesters. A more tempered crackdown could have achieved the goal the regime sought. The second example is the scale of the now discredited trial.</div><div><br /></div><div>These two key errors betray either incompetence, nervousness or both. They hint at a fundamentally shallow base of core regime support. Political errors like this cost support and embolden opponents. The mistakes compound the flight of capital. Money is mostly apolitical and calculatedly amoral. It will remain in a country which is a crude dictatorship, but will tend to flee a regime which can't manage the business of repression.</div><div><br /></div><div>Despite it's street-thuggery resources and grip on the levers of law and administration, the shaky Iranian regime has two key strikes against it and seems to be floundering.</div><div><br /></div><div>Three strikes you're out.</div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-75647199657363410332009-08-11T10:49:00.007+04:302009-08-11T23:14:48.539+04:30Spammers Dog Iran Twitter Activists - Again<img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/eresearch.jpg" align="right" />A mass spam campaign is again flooding the #<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">iranelection</span> topic on Twitter. The <a href="http://seaofgreenradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/iranian-opposition-under-cyberattack-on.html">last</a> major spam campaign was pushing a scam called "Turbo Cash Generator", this time well organised <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">spammers</span> are <a href="http://www.e-researchcenter.us.com/?config=6417&src=WC-190613aaaIE235281:224874:">promoting</a> a dubious offer of a $1,000 Visa gift card at a website called <a href="http://www.e-researchcenter.us.com/">e-researchcenter.us.com</a>.<div><br /></div><div>The e-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">researchcenter</span> site identifies itself as a <a href="http://topnotch-media.com/">Top Notch Media, Inc.</a> website. Top Notch Media is a <a href="http://www.valueclick.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">ValueClick</span></a> company. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">ValueClick</span> is a publicly traded, international <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">internet</span> marketing and advertising firm, founded in 1988 and based in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Westlake</span> Village, California. Besides the e-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">researchcenter</span> its subsidiary operations include <a href="http://www.cj.com/">Commission Junction</a> and <a href="http://shopping.net/">Shopping.net</a>. The company is <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/valueclick/--ID__61685--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml">reported</a> to have 2008 sales of $628 million.</div><div><br /></div><div>That level of presumed reputable corporate operations does not sit well with Top Notch Media -whose online reputation, frankly, stinks. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Complaintsboard</span>.com has <a href="http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/top-notch-media-inc-c137728.html">this</a> warning:</div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">These are complete crooks.... Don't fall for this scam. I did. They take your money and run... Run, run as fast and far away from this site as you can. Liars, scumbags, scam artists, crooks... I lost hundreds of dollars trusting them.</span></blockquote> </div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">RipoffReport</span>.com carries <a href="http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/353/RipOff0353611.htm">this</a> warning about another Top Notch Media operation:</div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">"This company clearly has no credibility and cheats consumers out of money they are due."</span></blockquote> </div><div>But perhaps any assumption of corporate responsibility is misplaced. In March of 2008 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">ValueClick</span> offered to pay $2,9 million <a href="http://www.research-live.com/news/valueclick-pays-$29m-to-settle-deception-claim/3004400.article">to settle charges</a> by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">ValueClick</span> subsidiary Hi-Speed Media used deceptive emails, banner ads and pop-ups to drive consumers to its websites. The company's campaign offered gifts, such as laptops and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">iPods</span>. </div><div><br /></div><div>But the FTC said consumers had to navigate “<i>a maze of expensive and burdensome third-party offers which they were required to ‘participate in' at their own expense in order to receive the promised ‘free' merchandise</i>”.</div><div><br /></div><div>Given the reasons for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">ValueClick's</span> prior penalization, the FTC might well be interested in the current Twitter spam campaign directing consumers to its e-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">researchcenter</span>.com subsidiary.</div><div><br /></div><div>After all, the new offer to consumers visiting that website seems identical in form to the offers which cost the corporation a close to $3 million penalty last year. </div><div><br /></div><div>To benefit from the $1,000 Visa gift card, consumers lured via Twitter to e-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">researchcenter</span>.com must purchase 2 Silver offers, 2 Gold offers, and 8 Platinum offers from a range of products including online credit reports, teeth whitening products and B<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">otox</span>. </div><div><br /></div><div>They must also recruit two others to do the same. Tellingly, the terms and conditions note that the credit card offer may require consumers to activate the card by transferring a balance or taking a cash advance.</div><div><br /></div><div>It all looks like what the FTC described in its prior charges against <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">ValueClick</span> as: "<i>a maze of expensive and burdensome third-party offers which they were required to ‘participate in' at their own expense in order to receive the promised ‘free' merchandise</i>”. Our archive of the e-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">researchcenter</span> visa gift offer page is <a href="http://fintandunne.com/archive/e-ResearchCenter.us-Platinum.htm">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>It would be unfortunate for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">ValueClick</span> if the corporation were to suffer another multi-million dollar FTC sanction. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">FTC's</span> consumer complaints form is <a href="https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/">here</a>. Feel free to refer to this article. Feel free to post this article to the net or to popular Twitter topics. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>See Also</b>: <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-current-events/29834-major-spam-attack-iranelection.html#post63699">Iran.WhyWeProtest Thread</a></div><div><br /></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-35060211223372646392009-08-01T13:31:00.007+04:302009-08-01T15:49:30.976+04:30Green Blood: Iran's True Toll of Martyrs<div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/martyrs.jpg" border="0" /></div><div></div><div><br /></div>The official number of protesters killed to date in the Iranian uprising is widely viewed with extreme <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">skepticism</span>. But a firm <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">contradictory</span> count of the death toll has been slow to emerge. <div><br /></div><div>Any failure to hold Iranian authorities to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">account</span> has one key consequence: it extends to repressive forces in Iran a licence to continue to kill without fear that the full scale of these murders will be exposed. Thus placing peaceful protesters at considerable ongoing risk.</div><div><br /></div><div>Accordingly, Sea Of Green Radio presents the first in a series of investigative reports aimed at placing the true fatality count firmly in the public domain.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/SeaOfGreenRadio09-07-31.mp3">Listen here</a></span> <a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/SeaOfGreenRadio09-07-31.mp3"><img src="http://breakfornews.com/imgd/mp3a.gif" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 29px; height: 21px; " /></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">mp3 audio</span></div><div><br /></div><div>We interview the author of the '<a href="http://iranrevolution.wordpress.com/revolution-martyrs/"><b><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Iran Revolution</span></b></a>' weblog, which is building a careful fatality count on a case-by-case basis. We also present both an overview of the evidence to date, and a preliminary estimate of the likely final death toll.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Referenced in this Audio:</b></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://iranrevolution.wordpress.com/revolution-martyrs/">Iran Revolution's Martyr Count</a></li><li><a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/memoriam/">Anonymous Iran Memorium</a></li><li><a href="http://iranbodycount.blogspot.com/">Iran Body Count Blog</a></li><li><a href="http://seaofgreenradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/92-killed-in-tehran-say-doctors-who.html">92 Killed in Tehran Say Doctors Who Fled</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/07/06/01003-20090706ARTFIG00225-des-medecins-iraniens-temoignent-de-la-repression-.php">Médecins dénoncent la terreur dans les hôpitau</a></li><li><a href="http://seaofgreenradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/245-protesters-killed-to-date-in-iran.html">245 Protesters Killed to Date in Iran</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/16/hundreds-feared-dead-iran-clashes">Guardian, UK Iran Fatalities article</a></li><li><a href="http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2009/07/deathtoll/">Iran Human Rights Report</a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-45984400061105219112009-07-31T09:40:00.004+04:302009-07-31T10:35:54.022+04:30U.S. Realpolitik Readies to Betray Iran OppositionAn interesting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02Iran-t.html?_r=1"><b>article</b></a> yesterday in the NY Times magazine by Roger Cohen, detailing the U.S. administration's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">maneuvering</span> in relation to Iran. Cutting through the rhetoric of "concern" about the post-election outcome, Ross delivers this dire nugget of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">realpolitik</span>:<div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">'The Obama administration’s strong conviction, as several officials told me, is that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Ahmadinejad</span>’s election was fraudulent. But in the American interest, it is ready to overlook that and to talk. Restored relations with the Soviet Union came in 1933 at the time of the Great Terror, and with China in 1972 in the middle of the Cultural Revolution. But of course the bloodshed then — of an altogether different dimension — was not being <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">YouTubed</span> around the globe.'</span></blockquote></div><div>Unlike Obama, the people of Iran are not prepared to "overlook" the theft of their democratic rights.</div><div><br /></div><div>Much of the article revolves around Dennis Ross, a Beltway veteran with Israeli sympathies who has been drafted into the National Security Council and into the heart of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Obama's</span> Iran team. Cohen's article assures us that:</div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">'Israel, which sees an existential threat in a nuclear Iran, has made clear that its patience is limited. The Ross team does not think Israelis are bluffing. They believe Israel views Iran in life-and-death terms.'</span></blockquote></div><div>Israeli Zionists view <i>everything</i> in life-and-death terms, but no matter. </div><div><br /></div><div>Further on, Cohen returns to the question of a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by Israel:</div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">'It is also clear to me that a military strike on Iran by Israel is Obama’s least-favored outcome: it would inflame the region he’s trying to quiet and sabotage his outreach to the Muslim world, while perhaps only delaying Iran’s nuclear program a year or two.'</span></blockquote></div><div>A less fawning analysis than Cohen's might take his focus on <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">realpolitik</span> to it's logical conclusion:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>1) Obama could care less about Iran's opposition; could care less if an Israeli strike scuppers the Iranian Uprising.</div><div><br /></div><div>2) Israel is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Obama's</span> iron fist, already licenced to strike by Joe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Biden</span>'s conveniently loose mouth about Israel's national interest.</div><div><br /></div><div>3) Hollow platitudes are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Obama's</span> velvet glove. Ignore them.</div></blockquote><div></div><div>A democratic, reformist Iran right now would <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">de</span>polarize the War on Terror. That climate would soon lead to questioning of the rationale for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Obama's</span> Afghanistan campaign; would lead to questions also about Israeli intransigence over a Middle-East resolution.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Iranian uprising is inconveniently four years too early. The (ongoing!) War on Terror needs a hardline Iranian government to reinforce the notion of a noble battle against maniacal "towel-heads". Zionist nationalist rationale equally needs a hardline Iranian government. A sad loss such a government would be to both the above causes.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not what Obama says that matters. It's what Israel does.</div><div><br /></div><div>Get your revolution on! The clock is ticking towards this Fall.</div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-49636769149999824462009-07-30T18:38:00.033+04:302009-07-31T02:03:34.669+04:30Neda “40th Day” Memorial Rallies<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Estimated 4,000+ in cemetry and up</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to 50,00 in Tehran center at protests</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><b>Screen grabs</b></span></span><b> of 'shooting' from the video below:</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Claims are being made that this was a pistol shot.</div><div>But at 44 seconds into the video below, the officer</div><div>can be seen behind a tree --loading a cartridge:</div><div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/tehran090730-2a.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div>The size is clearly too large for a pistol:</div><div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/tehran090730-2.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Huge muzzle flash. Likely a teargas launcher/rubber bullet:</div><div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/tehran090730-3.jpg" /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uREkCv8y25s&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uREkCv8y25s&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><hr /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/4hjqhXota-k&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/4hjqhXota-k&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><hr /><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoP861M7QrreB4OaUXyEWQpdq7pYO4DsvNUSMDRIFQc4FQtgJIorujTN_UmFyHePg6LM8QIY3qc-lYFkxK2YXDBZcllJj2656ApX3bvHI9AZXHwXAddb9e0wVWsVN1_MoERuqhE9KzgA/s1600-h/tehran090730-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoP861M7QrreB4OaUXyEWQpdq7pYO4DsvNUSMDRIFQc4FQtgJIorujTN_UmFyHePg6LM8QIY3qc-lYFkxK2YXDBZcllJj2656ApX3bvHI9AZXHwXAddb9e0wVWsVN1_MoERuqhE9KzgA/s400/tehran090730-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364274745969189362" /></a></div><div><br /><div>Early video from the Memorial at <div>the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Behesht</span></span>-e-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Zahra</span></span> Cemetery, Tehran<div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/8-L0mWeMUQ8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/8-L0mWeMUQ8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /></div><div>Tehran center - video at approx 6pm Tehran time:</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/D5ohqWqEleg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/D5ohqWqEleg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Other Videos:</div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/vfHwEqobN4g&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/vfHwEqobN4g&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/6JHzzt_CmlI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/6JHzzt_CmlI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>50+</b> videos of today's protests: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/peive17"><b>here</b></a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/IranYouth"><b>here</b></a></div><div><hr /><br /></div><div><b>Major Media Reports:</b></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGSJEAPs_r2T2wxsL5G3t4z-jajQD99OQGB00"></a></div><blockquote><div><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGSJEAPs_r2T2wxsL5G3t4z-jajQD99OQGB00">AP</a></div><div><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protests31-2009jul31,0,7400028.story">LA Times</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/30/world/worldwatch/entry5197292.shtml">CBS</a></div><div><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6733281.ece">Times, UK</a></div><div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/30/iranian-opposiition-attend-memorial">Guardian, UK</a></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protests31-2009jul31,0,7400028.story"></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Opposition leader Mir-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Hossein</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Mousavi</span></span> was prevented from joining other mourners by security forces. Police fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons. Despite riot police presence around the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">perimiter</span></span>, thousands entered the cemetery and are now moving towards <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Mosala</span></span>.</div><div><span><span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Parvin</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Fahimi</span></span>, the mother of slain protester Neda <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Soltan</span></span> was prevented from attending the memorial. According to ABC's Jim <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Scuitto</span></span>: 'for reasons I can't say, I cannot attend the ceremony of my own daughter'.<br /><br />Filmmakers <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Jafar</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Panahi</span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Mahnaz</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Mohammadi</span></span> were arrested today at the cemetery.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span>Protesters have also <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">gatherd</span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Seyde</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Khandan</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Hafte</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Tir</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Vanak</span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Vali</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Asr</span></span>. Army helicopters are reported flying over <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Tehran's</span></span> center. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Beheshti</span></span> Avenue is full of people, with the crowd chanting slogans against the regime. 3,000 protesters have gathered around Grand <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Mosalla</span></span> according to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">AFP</span></span>.</span></span><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Clashes are now reported at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Vanak</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Ferdowsi</span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Valiasr</span></span> and Haft <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Hoz</span></span> Squares.</div><div><br /></div><div>Intense conflict between protesters and police with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Basij</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">suport</span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Abbasabad</span></span> St. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unconfirmed <a href="http://twitter.com/madyar"><b>report</b></a> that one person has been killed in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Valiasr</span></span> Street. 7:55<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">pmTehran</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Heavy clashes now across much of Tehran center. Tear gas and gunfire against the backdrop of fires lit by protesters to help alleviate tear gas effects.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gunshots heard at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Fatemi</span></span> Sq. Protesters clash with army near Interior Ministry.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unconfirmed: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Mousavi</span></span> spotted near <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Mosalla</span></span>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Protests in Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran, and forming in Tabriz. Clashes later reported in Shiraz, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Rasht</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Ahvaz</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Isfehan</span></span>, Mashhad, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Oromieh</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Mahabad</span></span>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two young men arrested and placed inside a van, but a group of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">demonstrators</span> broke windows and pulled the men out of vehicle.</div><div><br /></div><div>Intense protests continue in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Tehran's</span></span> center after nightfall.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Latest @ 9:50pm Tehran time</span></span></b></div></div></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-55399037943988314682009-07-17T14:54:00.034+04:302009-07-20T05:22:15.288+04:30Live Blog on Tehran's Key Friday 17th July<img border="0" width="480" src="http://www.breakfornews.com/bfn5/marchjuly17a.jpg" height="600" /><br /><div>An estimated <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1 to 1.5 million</span></span></b> took part in protest today.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Compilation Video from Today:</b></div><div><hr /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D6xh6SX5nX8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D6xh6SX5nX8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /><b>People make their way to prayer earlier:</b><br /><hr /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/HioSeQJAShk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/HioSeQJAShk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTki3rS7QFX2BLaDuWXIY73uD5BmWWw5yiHof9Fy-HfyJ6tR94l_yHjiaYwA4FkM14f1ARQ1LRpeMiCrcGZVex7IEYzSxW3lojMiTeo373xdTv897USnUO9XLprvEw3AScfw94DiUQjU/s1600-h/friday.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTki3rS7QFX2BLaDuWXIY73uD5BmWWw5yiHof9Fy-HfyJ6tR94l_yHjiaYwA4FkM14f1ARQ1LRpeMiCrcGZVex7IEYzSxW3lojMiTeo373xdTv897USnUO9XLprvEw3AScfw94DiUQjU/s400/friday.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359413223792297970" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px; " /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTki3rS7QFX2BLaDuWXIY73uD5BmWWw5yiHof9Fy-HfyJ6tR94l_yHjiaYwA4FkM14f1ARQ1LRpeMiCrcGZVex7IEYzSxW3lojMiTeo373xdTv897USnUO9XLprvEw3AScfw94DiUQjU/s1600-h/friday.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> Mousavi at Friday Prayers in Tehran.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Later as crowds gather:</span><hr /><div></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/UKW4uGVtw-w&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/UKW4uGVtw-w&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nAGJ80K2l-M&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nAGJ80K2l-M&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/63rxIkO64Sg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/63rxIkO64Sg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/1k757G_X4RI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/1k757G_X4RI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ko3AqkBXcfo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ko3AqkBXcfo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2wTqwhHUtbw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2wTqwhHUtbw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div><b>More Videos </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AzadieSabz#play/uploads"><b>Here</b></a><b>. And <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/peive17#play/uploads/0/PSYXPGpwjGQ">Here</a></b><hr /><br />Heavy clashes reported between Pro-Khamaeni and Pro-Reformists around Tehran University. People have started protesting in nearby streets but security forces are trying to disperse them. <div>Tear gas & batons were used. Unprecedented scenes during prayer time.</div><br />Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1203139555809&ref=mf">Video</a> of protests at Tehran Uni 1:50pm Tehran Time.<div><br /></div><div>Large crowd reported heading for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting HQ.</div><div><br /></div><div>Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1203147876017&ref=nf">Video</a> of tear gas incident.</div><div><br /></div><hr /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/d8DZPEjU3XM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/d8DZPEjU3XM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><hr /><div>Riots all over Tehran. Heavy clashes. People mobilizing en masse. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">3:30pmTehran</span></div><div><br /></div><div>For the last hour, <b>videos are being deleted from YouTube</b> in large numbers as quickly as they are posted. </div><div><br /></div><div>Widespread use of tear gas and knives, with stabbings being reported. Clashes reported in front of the University and around Enqelab Sq.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thousands converging on the Ministry of Interior.</div><div><br /></div><div>Emergency declared for Greater Tehran. Communications Shutdown.</div><div><br /></div><div>People moving towards "vezarate keshvar" chanting: Military support us!</div><div><br /></div><div>However army bases are reported on lockdown, precisely to prevent this.</div><div><br /><hr /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/niqdO5xc8TA&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/niqdO5xc8TA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><hr /><br /></div><div><div>Interior Ministry in Fatemi surrounded by up to 20 thousand, Tear gas and Basij everywhere, people are pushing in.</div><div><br /></div><div>People shouting and screaming their lungs out --furious and not afraid.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mashhad declared emergency. Tabriz reporting heavy clashes.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>All communication from Shiraz cut.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hundreds of thousands now on Tehran's streets.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"> 5:30pm Tehran</span></div><div><br /><hr /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E7vhnyveYCg&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E7vhnyveYCg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><hr /><br /></div><div>Clashes spreading to all of the city central areas, gunshoots heard.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mass street fighting with Basij taking casualties.</div><div><br /></div><div>Numbers growing at TV station and Interior Ministry.</div></div><div><br /></div></div><div>Via Tehran Bureau, crowds today extended from Gisha to Tehran University with an estimated <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">1 to 1.5 million</span></b> people taking part. Largest protests since the initial Revolution Sq. to Freedom Sq. demonstration.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://209.85.227.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fa&tl=en&u=http://www.etemademelli.ir/published/0/00/54/5424/&prev=hp&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhiq6WXxSIZIDUqqYiU7Whzf3jJaiQ"><b>Karoubi Attacked</b> at Friday Prayers ></a> Karoubi's son: The plain clothes forces who attacked my father were congratulated by their commander on their radio!</div><div><br /></div><div>At least 100 ppl arested today during clashes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Protests in some part of Tehran countinued until midninght.</div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-44695355937807715472009-07-17T14:26:00.010+04:302009-07-20T05:35:22.477+04:30Rafsanjani Speaks - The People Move On<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><b>Analysis:</b><br /><br />Rafsanjani's damp squib speech was a yesterday's man's address. We waited this long for.... <b>that!?</b><br /><br />It tainted him and all the opposition politicians who attended. They have dithered, and slowed the people's momentum.<br /><br />Now, their attempt to hijack the Revolution has drowned in a lot of Rafsanjani waffle about the previous revolution; and in talk of negotiating with killers and oppressors.<br /><br />The initiative is back with the people. Back with the streets.<br /><br /><b>Nothing will stop them.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">RAFSANJANI'S SPEECH IN SUMMARY<br /><br />"Today I will propose a solution for today's situation."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Rafsajani is telling the history of early days of Islam and Mohammad.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Rafsanjani talking about the importance of science, knowledge & ppl's rights in prophet's islamic gov.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Rafsanjani seems to be on the verge of crying! Am I hearing right?!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Now talking about how prophet was worred about differences & discord happened among his ppl b4 his death.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">And YES. his voice was shaking when talking about prophet's death.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Rafsanjani talking about China. PPl: Death to China.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Rafsanjani asked them not to chant. Because of the "speical" circumstances & what's going on the nearby streets!?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Saying I was there in every moment of the revolution. I know what Imam wanted.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">According 2 #iran constitution everything is done with ppl's vote. Even supreme leader.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Unfortunately #iranelection was a big loss for everyone. We need unity.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">His suggestions: (1) we should return ppl's trust.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">(2) everyone has to act according to the law.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">(3) We should create an environment that ppl can talk and discuss.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">He's blaming the guardian council. ppl (not clear which side) chanting! (Basij chanting in support of Khamenei, yet Raf keeps thanking them as though they r chanting 4 him)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">He asked for releasing the detainees. AND his voice is shaking!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">He said we should try to gain the trust of those who are mourning. Although difficult.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><b></b></span><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Longer version now </span></b><a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-current-events/15065-july-17th-sermon.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">here</span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">.</span></b></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><b></b></blockquote><b></b></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-69693482999857173062009-07-17T13:23:00.003+04:302009-07-17T14:01:39.641+04:30The Revolution Will Not Be HijackedIt's coming up to 1:30pm in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Tehran</span> right now, but already, before <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Rafsanjani</span> has even begun to speak: there's a reek of sellout in the air.<div><br /></div><div>That's not surprising with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Rafsanjani</span> involved. It's the sort of thing to be expected from a master political chess-player. And yes, this is politics Jim. But not as we know it.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Mousavi</span> should know it. Greatness came out of the shadows and thrust itself <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">opon</span> him. That greatness rode on the shoulders of a people inspired with detestation for an oppressive government, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">rather</span> than a love of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Mousavi</span>. But it was greatness nonetheless. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>There is talk of working within the system. But nothing less than the departure of Ahmadinejhad and/or the no-longer-Supreme Leader will do.</div><div><br /></div><div>Absent these systemic changes, by showing up to listen to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Rafsanjani</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Mousavi</span> will cast that greatness to the winds of politics. Old politics.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>The politics of the back room. The politics of vested interests. If <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Mousavi</span> does this it will be a calamitous error. Iran may very well take a step forward. But it wants to take a giant leap, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Mousavi</span> should know this.</div><div><br /></div><div>The people know it. They have not come this far and shed this much blood to make an incremental advance. This is not about an election, nor is it any longer about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Mousavi</span>. It's about time.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's about time, that Iran embraced it's own greatness. And the people know that. After all it is their Revolution. Over the last few weeks, while the leaders played old politics, the people were out in the streets constructing a new politics. A politics without leaders. A politics capable of solving Iran's massive national problems.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>The Genie is not only out of the bottle. The Genie has smashed the bottle and has no intention of ever returning to it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Politicians everywhere tremble at the thought.</div><div><br /></div><div>And scramble to hijack the Revolution.</div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-38771354293178872902009-07-17T08:23:00.002+04:302009-07-17T23:07:13.910+04:30Israel Readies to Rescue Ahmadinejahd<div>You would think that the leaders of 'The West' would be doing their best to rein in crazy talk coming out of Israel about <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1100627.html?FORM=ZZNR5">it's preparedness to attack Iran</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Such a move would simply hand a perfect justification to the regime to sideline opposition protests by issuing a rallying call for national unity against a foreign enemy. Exactly the line it is using in propaganda already. But with the smoking ruins of it's nuclear program as justification, it could even declare a state of war.</div><div><br /></div><div>Curiously, such Israeli action has already been given the cover it needs: through supposedly loose talk about Israel's right to pursue it's national interest by U.S. Vice President Joe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Biden</span>; and by both Obama and Hillary Clinton deadlining negotiations with Iran at September.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's all <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">even</span> more puzzling considering that even talk of such intemperate actions works against the chances of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Mousavi</span> --who has already <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYK2bRv9bg">indicated a willingness</a> to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">negotiate</span> on ensuring Iran's nuclear program remains solely for civilian use.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not much of this makes sense if you are working on the assumption that the leaders of "The West" are keen to see the emergence of democracy in Iran.</div><div><br /></div><div>They're not.</div><div><br /></div><div>It makes a lot more sense if you realize the value of the dancing sock-puppet <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Ahmadinejhad</span> as a propaganda justification for the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">neo</span>-colonial adventures of the Anglo-American-Israeli power axis against "crazy Muslims". </div><div><br /></div><div>When you factor in that alliance's long-term, strategic relationship with Iran's regional rival: Saudi Arabia, then the combined value of the sanctions and the pathetic government of Iran in slowing Iran's economic and political advancement also makes a lot of sense.</div><div><br /></div><div>Doubtless we can rely on the Israeli end of the alliance to launch a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, if the regime can't suppress the uprising by September.</div><div><br /></div><div>As one astute tweet on Twitter put it:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">G8/Obama to Iran: You have until September to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">destroy</span> the protests. Don't screw up.</span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></div><div>Iran issues have in recent weeks become clouded with a dense fog of disinformation. The most pernicious of all, is the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">disinfo</span> that the West loves freedom and wants the people of Iran to have a share.</div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-9100634427413717872009-07-17T05:33:00.004+04:302009-07-17T05:49:47.683+04:30Wikileaks Touts Iran Nuclear Accident Scare<div>Wikileaks.org today <a href="http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Iran_blocks_WikiLeaks">reports</a> that the website has been blocked by Iran.</div><div><br /></div>Today also, Wikileaks <a href="http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Serious_nuclear_accident_may_lay_behind_Iranian_nuke_chief's_mystery_resignation">says</a> that two weeks ago it got a tipoff about a nuclear accident of some sort in Iran, in advance of yesterday's <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8153775.stm">news</a> that the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, had resigned. <div><br /></div><div>The Wikileaks report omits to mention that Aghazadeh is a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/gholam-reza-aghazadeh-ira_n_235180.html">close ally</a> of Mousavi -which might more readily explain his departure. <div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></b></div><blockquote><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Serious nuclear accident may lay behind Iranian nuke chief's mystery resignation</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">July 16, 2009, wikileaks.org</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Two weeks ago, a source associated with Iran's nuclear program confidentially told WikiLeaks of a serious, recent, nuclear accident at Natanz. Natanz is the primary location of Iran's nuclear enrichment program.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">WikiLeaks had reason to believe the source was credible however contact with this source was lost. WikiLeaks would not normally mention such an incident without additional confirmation, however according to Iranian media and the BBC, today the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, has resigned under mysterious circumstances. According to these reports, the resignation was tendered around 20 days ago.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Julian Assange, WikiLeaks)</span></span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></div></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-76740953280963167062009-07-17T04:05:00.008+04:302009-07-17T09:23:47.542+04:30Taraneh: Iranian Rape Victim Reported Dead<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFMQigz2X1QhApH8kF3w8jI22EA8FQlNndHPI5tPTE1qsnDCjyrMmtU94nicQzZQb6XPSpiObvitZjzz-7rvrQAwI3sQ-P_Dq82enywrmKPFWIo7Marh_uJXslGxu_bVykuVHsUojHV-w/s1600-h/Tareneh.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFMQigz2X1QhApH8kF3w8jI22EA8FQlNndHPI5tPTE1qsnDCjyrMmtU94nicQzZQb6XPSpiObvitZjzz-7rvrQAwI3sQ-P_Dq82enywrmKPFWIo7Marh_uJXslGxu_bVykuVHsUojHV-w/s400/Tareneh.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359215584676397074" /></a>The story of '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Taraneh</span>' first emerged on a couple of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">farsi</span> blogs. <div><br /><div>Then it was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shirin-sadeghi/the-rape-of-taraneh-priso_b_233063.html">picked up</a> by the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Huffington</span> Post, which admitted that the story lacked verification.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the Post's account, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Taraheh</span> M. (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Mousavi</span>) , a 28-year-old Iranian woman was detained on Friday June 19 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">(incorrect -it was June 28)</span> at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Ghoba</span> mosque in Tehran. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Taraneh</span>, whose first name is Persian for "song," was reportedly moved around Iran's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">detention</span> system and her family could not locate her.<div><br /></div><div>Fast-forward to recent days, when her family reportedly got an anonymous phone call tipping them off that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Taraneh</span> had been admitted to hospital. The caller gave details of injuries to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Taraneh</span> consistent with rape. When the family went to the hospital they found that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Taraneh</span> was only briefly there, unconscious all the while. </div><div><br /></div><div>Yesterday, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran <a href="http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6763/1/">called</a> for her release. Today one of the blogs originally covering the story <a href="http://iranian009.blogfa.com/post-34.aspx">reported</a> that the family were informed yesterday that a burned corpse matching <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Taraneh</span>’s description had been found in the desert between <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Karaj</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Qazvin</span>. They were threatened to keep quiet about the affair.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the blog report, the family went to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Ghazvin</span> and recovered her body, but are close-mouthed about funeral arrangements.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Taraneh</span> has already been celebrated online as a victim of brutal gang rape by sub-human <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Basiji</span> security forces. However, that outrage is based solely on some <a href="http://twitter.com/omidhabibinia">Twittered</a> blog reports. No professional journalist has reported on this from immediate sources. Even the claim of rape comes only via an alleged anonymous call.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Taraneh's</span> story is tragic. If true. </div><div><br /></div><div>The latter is the question.</div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Source reports: </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http://zeerzamin.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_3749.html&sl=fa&tl=en&history_state0="><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">1</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span><a href="http://iranian009.blogfa.com/post-31.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">2</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shirin-sadeghi/the-rape-of-taraneh-priso_b_233063.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">3</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span><a href="http://iranian009.blogfa.com/post-34.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">4</span></a></blockquote><a href="http://iranian009.blogfa.com/post-34.aspx"></a></div></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-7862890081600824262009-07-16T02:48:00.012+04:302009-07-19T14:36:37.785+04:30245 Protesters Killed to Date in Iran<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVeJ6PBV_w1_ofPO0mxIm3Ma9H_NUlFj6TBffzTySMBjyJBaJFWrNVLEsNtv4rhophD35J41lMXjSq8cJ9Ubs6Uo1GqYQGGnx4qjkHLcn3oSUHKEIHSmqNTSfDc01e8J5T69Fuj-UgVUQ/s1600-h/iran-casualties.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVeJ6PBV_w1_ofPO0mxIm3Ma9H_NUlFj6TBffzTySMBjyJBaJFWrNVLEsNtv4rhophD35J41lMXjSq8cJ9Ubs6Uo1GqYQGGnx4qjkHLcn3oSUHKEIHSmqNTSfDc01e8J5T69Fuj-UgVUQ/s400/iran-casualties.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360109918067538930" /></a><br /><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQEHb7kKUknG4h0P9QbmOwxzlRFvHTmSiWsLuJ_I_Dm7iCdlujvUhuOtQ6c_S9-1Hg4uMiUdUIHNEze0AW5wGKVOsR4Iy0c4qEY8XHU1Y3E5pKbWH5tLcOfw2kBsXkK3x5ZM5bVZSgGc/s1600-h/iran-casualties.png"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><b>See Methodology Below</b> - Edit: July 19th</span></span><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQEHb7kKUknG4h0P9QbmOwxzlRFvHTmSiWsLuJ_I_Dm7iCdlujvUhuOtQ6c_S9-1Hg4uMiUdUIHNEze0AW5wGKVOsR4Iy0c4qEY8XHU1Y3E5pKbWH5tLcOfw2kBsXkK3x5ZM5bVZSgGc/s1600-h/iran-casualties.png"></a><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">T</span></b>he International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran <a href="http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2009/07/deathtoll/">has just stated</a> that the number of demonstrators killed during protests in Iran far exceeds government reports. <div><br /></div><div>We present results of a methodical evaluation of news reports, showing a high likelyhood that <b>between 245 protesters and 285 have died to date</b>. The upper range of the fatalities is up to 485 deaths with low confidence. We also conclude there has been a <b>systematic plan</b> to conceal fatalities. A plan which was in place even <b>before</b> the killings began:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>Sea Of Green Radio News</b>: </span></div><div><b>Wednesday 15th July</b>, 2009<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">at Midnight Tehran time.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/http://fintandunne.com/audio/SeaOfGreenNews-09-07-15.mp3">Listen :</a></span><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/http://fintandunne.com/audio/SeaOfGreenNews-09-07-15.mp3"> </a><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/http://fintandunne.com/audio/SeaOfGreenNews-09-07-15.mp3"><img src="http://fintandunne.com/img/mp3a.gif" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 29px; height: 21px; " /> Audio mp3</a></div></div><div><div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Regime's Protester Fatalities Concealment Plan:</b></div><div><ul><li>Allow around 35% of fatalities to enter hospitals.</li><li>Hide 65% of the bodies in IRGC morgues / cold-store locations.</li><li>Severely restrict information on detainees to make families think missing family members are detained and not dead.</li><li>Very slowly allow the concealed bodies to enter Iran's normal death statistics, by pressuring families to agree to dub the deaths accidental or by natural causes.</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Our Protester Death Total Methodology:</b></div><div><ul><li>Estimate deaths in Tehran from news accounts and unofficial hospital counts.</li><li>Estimate deaths outside Tehran using media reports of the severity of repression outside the capital. Allow for poor reporting of deaths outside Tehran area.</li><li>Include deaths both by shooting and torture / ill-treatment in detention.</li><li>Allow that maximum concealment would have been in the capital -where media presence and strong public communications systems made secrecy more vital.</li><li>Factor in that reports say relatives are perusing large numbers of photos of corpses when trying to identify missing relatives who may be deceased.</li><li>Allow for exaggeration and bias in reports.</li></ul></div><div><b>See Also: </b></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://seaofgreenradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/92-killed-in-tehran-say-doctors-who.html">92 Killed in Tehran Say Doctors Who Fled</a></li><li><a href="http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2009/07/deathtoll/">Death Toll Apparently Far Exceeds Government Claims</a></li></ul></div><div><div><b>More on Methodology</b></div><div></div><blockquote><div>The graph (v1.1) shows the cumulative confidence in the underlying news reports supporting a fatality total.</div><div><br /></div><div>For example a single news report might say that some number of protesters were shot in, say Shiraz. How reliable is that source or news organization? Have their other reports been later confirmed by other known high confidence news orgs? How many other reports are there which reference Shiraz fatalities? What's is the overasll confidence in the acumulated reports?</div><div><br /></div><div>Or take the Le Figaro article detailing an interview with two Iranian doctors who fled to France. The article said they claim that an unofficial tally by medical staff in Tehran counted 92 fatalities in Tehran area hospitals. What other claims were made by the doctors in that article? Did those claims turn out to be substantial or not? How does a claim of 92 fatalities in the Tehran area meshwith other news reports of hospital fatalities?</div><div><br /></div><div>And so on. Slowly building a picture of the true number of fatalities --which is weighted to reflect the confidence in the underlying reports. We've been building the underlying data for the last month. It would take weeks to write it all up as a formal report. For now, we can just present the conclusions.</div></blockquote><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Postscript:</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>The UK, Guardian catches up with this story.</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Hundreds may have died in Iranian clashes after poll, say human rights campaigners</span></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Woman claims to have seen piles of corpses, </i></div><div><i>as tension rises in Tehran over Rafsanjani speech</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Robert Tait - guardian.co.uk - 16 July 2009 14.19 BST</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Hundreds more people may have died in Iran's post-election unrest than the authorities have admitted, amid allegations that the death toll has been obscured by hiding victims' bodies in secret morgues.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Human rights campaigners say anecdotal evidence suggests the number of demonstrators killed in clashes with government forces after last month's poll was far higher than the official death toll of 20 and may amount to a "massacre".</div><div><br /></div><div>Suspicions have been fuelled after one woman described seeing corpses piled on top of each other in a refrigeration depot while searching for a missing relative. Another woman was shown pictures of between 50 and 60 people, all said to have died, while searching for her son.</div><div><br /></div><div>The claims came as Tehran prepares for another day of tension tomorrow when the influential former president Hashemi Rafsanjani addresses Friday prayers at Tehran University. Hardline supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – who was controversially re-elected in the election on 12 June that opponents say was "stolen" – have threatened to disrupt the event, at which Rafsanjani is expected to speak in support of his ally Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated reformist candidate, who will attend the event.</div><div><br /></div><div>The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran accused the government of obfuscating casualty numbers by frightening victims' families into silence. The true picture had emerged from hospital statistics and testimony from families who refused to keep quiet, it said.</div><div><br /></div><div>"It's hard to put a figure on it because most of the families involved are scared to talk," Aaron Rhodes of the campaign told the Guardian. "But if you put together the evidence of the families that have spoken, along with eyewitness reports and data from hospitals, there could be well over a hundred fatalities."</div><div><br /></div><div>The campaign said that on 20 June – the day after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the demonstrations must stop – three Tehran hospitals placed a total of 34 dead demonstrators in their morgues.</div><div><br /></div><div>The authorities put that day's fatalities at 11. Doctors have reported being stopped from signing death certificates by military commanders, who then ordered the corpses removed.</div><div><br /></div><div>The security forces have acknowledged carrying out more than 2,000 arrests during the crackdown on the mass protests against Ahmadinejad's re-election. Some detainees have been released but many are still unaccounted for.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Norooz website – linked to Iran's largest reformist party, the Islamic Participation Front – described how a mother searching for her missing child was sent to a facility normally used for preserving fruit and dairy produce on the outskirts of Tehran. After leafing through a photograph album of presumed victims, she was shown into a room containing what she described as "hundreds" of dead bodies. "Although I didn't find my child's body, on seeing all those corpses dumped on top of each other, I passed out," the unnamed woman said.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mousavi showed solidarity with relatives of the dead earlier this week when he visited the home of Sohrab Aarabi, 19, whose body was recovered nearly a month after he died of gunshot wounds at a mass demonstration in Tehran on 15 June.</div><div><br /></div><div>Aarabi's mother, Parvin Fahimi – a member of an organisation called Mothers for Peace – has described how after weeks of searching for her son she was summoned by a revolutionary court and shown pictures of between 50 and 60 people, all said to have died. The pictures included Sohrab, whom she had previously thought might be in detention.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some families have reported being harassed into signing pledges agreeing that their loved ones died accidentally or of natural causes. Others say they have been forced to declare that the victims belonged to the Basij militia, which was used to suppress the demonstrations.</div><div><br /></div><div>In one case, a family reported receiving their son's corpse encased in concrete to hide signs of injuries.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/16/hundreds-feared-dead-iran-clashes">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/16/hundreds-feared-dead-iran-clashes</a></span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/16/hundreds-feared-dead-iran-clashes"></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-38545956314725338842009-07-15T00:52:00.001+04:302009-07-15T00:52:53.213+04:30Iran Compromise Deal in the Works<div>Amid reports of a possible compromise between the Iranian regime and the opposition, leading Middle-East political analyst, <b>Professor Scott Lucas</b> joins Fintan Dunne to discuss the potential for breakthrough, or calamity -as we head for possible opposition attendance at Tehran's Friday prayers.<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>Sea Of Green Radio</b>: 'Deep Green' Iran Analysis</span></div><div><b>Tuesday 14th July</b>, 2009<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">at 8pm Tehran time.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/DeepGreenIranAnalysis-090714.mp3">Listen :</a></span><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/DeepGreenIranAnalysis-090714.mp3"> </a><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/DeepGreenIranAnalysis-090714.mp3"><img src="http://fintandunne.com/img/mp3a.gif" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 29px; height: 21px; " /> Audio mp3</a></div></div><div><div><div><b><br /><br /></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/scottlucas.png" width="150" height="150" align="right" /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Interview Guest:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> <b>Professor Scott Lucas</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Scott Lucas is <a href="http://www.uscanada.bham.ac.uk/staff/lucas.htm">Professor of American Studies</a> at the University of Birmingham, UK -and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tehran. A specialist in US and British foreign policy, he has published extensively on Middle-East politics -especially on the Suez Crisis. He writes for, and is a founder of, the weblog <a href="http://enduringamerica.com/">EnduringAmerica.com</a> --where he currently blogs unmissable news analysis and reporting.</span></div></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-69322280676556286212009-07-13T07:57:00.003+04:302009-07-16T02:47:20.004+04:30Anonymous Issues Fatwa to Iranian Regime<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2JhoiXDy0g5PnZdCH9ucUqT36NFZgFdQ3b9p0Gbvq0n0u3AqPupGlY6n2R3xZMqeadwWIR5AKKtnlnseR1ulmSti4i449iqKRUeu4NFlIJ7T-02TEUImIKtJWvFRgWmMogRy0sDbDhdE/s1600-h/anon.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2JhoiXDy0g5PnZdCH9ucUqT36NFZgFdQ3b9p0Gbvq0n0u3AqPupGlY6n2R3xZMqeadwWIR5AKKtnlnseR1ulmSti4i449iqKRUeu4NFlIJ7T-02TEUImIKtJWvFRgWmMogRy0sDbDhdE/s400/anon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358282113224808946" /></a><br /><div>'Anonymous,' the group behind the highly successful free speech campaign against Scientology is taking an increasing part in the resistance to the Iranian government. The group has issued a free speech 'fatwa' against the Iranian regime. </div><div><br /></div><div>That development was echoed in a move by another group related to Anonymous. Two weeks ago a message appeared on <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/">Anonymous Iran</a> on behalf of a group called: Task Force /i/ran. </div><div><br /></div><div>The short identification code '/i/' is likely the signature of an offshoot of the 4.chan.org website. 4Chan is the origin of 'Anonymous.'</div><div><br /></div><div>The posted message indicated a cyberwar campaign was imminent against Iranian government websites, especially those publishing photos of protesters in an attempt to identify. The group stated it's intentions thus:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><blockquote>"/i/nvade. Destroy. Kill. Win. That's our fucking plan." -- Anonymous.</blockquote></span></div><div>The most recent move is the start of a <a href="http://www.radionomy.com/sea-of-green-radio.aspx#/sea-of-green-radio.aspx?Dum=1">'Sea of Green' interent radio channel</a> to broadcast the contents of the 'Green Brief' daily briefings on Iran developments by <a href="http://twitter.com/iran_translator">Josh Shahryar</a> -currently <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-current-events/">available</a> in text form at the <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/">Anonymous Iran</a> forum.</div><div><br /></div><div>Clearly, 'Anonymous' are on board with the Iranian resistance.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Expect them</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/_hUFv5c4lFg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/_hUFv5c4lFg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /></div><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></span></b></div></div><blockquote><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Hello, leaders of Iran. We are Anonymous.</span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">As the eyes of the entire world hold you under close scrutiny, the eyes of the internet have taken a similar notice of your recent actions. While the governments of the world condemn you for your suppression of human rights, Anonymous has taken a particular interest in your recent attempts to censor the internet, not only for your own people, but for the citizens of the entire world.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Such suppression of dissent cannot go unpunished. By cutting off communication of the Iranian citizens to the rest of the world, you have made it clear to us that the most revered of human rights - the right to free speech - is no longer important to you. By seeking to silence the voice of the people in an election and subsequently seeking to silence criticism of such a gross cover-up, you have perpetuated the anger and rage of your people. Anonymous has therefore made it our mission to see to it that the voice of the Iranian people can be heard around the world.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Just like another authoritarian religious extremist group, Anonymous will tear down the walls of silence using only the truth - the truth that you are trying so hard to suppress by use of violence, intimidation, and fascist laws.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">As your people continue to riot and to speak out against you; as you continue to beat and shoot your own citizens in the street; as you continue to lie to the face of the entire world; know that the internet is watching - and we do not like what we see.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Knowledge is free.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">We are Anonymous.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">We are Legion.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">We do not forgive.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">We do not forget.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Expect us</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">.</span></span></div></div></blockquote>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-21677672553609197372009-07-12T22:18:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.360+04:30People And Power: Inside the Iranian ProtestsA new documentary by Manon Loizeau on AlJazeera, filmed secretly inside Iran in the aftermath of the election, confirms the details of the crackdown which Iranian activists have been blogging about. It's unmissable watching.<div><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LSITy_taD3E&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LSITy_taD3E&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-43771019378942699232009-07-12T05:36:00.001+04:302009-08-11T11:28:15.410+04:30Iranian Opposition Under Cyberattack on Twitter<div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/iranelection-spam.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b>See</b> Latest Updates Below Article</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Persons unknown disrupted the <a href="http://twitter.com/iranelection">#iranelection</a> tag used by Iranian opposition activists on Twitter for almost all of Saturday 11th July. Legitimate messages coordinating political opposition to the Iranian government were drowned out by massive volume of tweet spam for a product called <a href="http://turbocashgenerator.com/">Turbo Cash Generator</a>, and also for <a href="http://tonig.ht/aboutus">www.tonig.ht</a> -a free domain registration service.</div><div><br /></div><div>Twitter did not seem to respond to requests block the spam content -which is rendered the #iranelection tag unusable, especially to less experienced users. That looks like an abrogation of their corporate responsibility to protect an online system vital for free speech and political organization.</div><div><br /></div><div>The sheer volume of tweet spam (up to 70% of tweets -see image) was counterproductive from an e-marketing point of view, so it's possible that Turbo Cash Generator was not the actual entity behind this cyberattack. Another entity may have used their product as cover for the attack.</div><div><br /></div><div>A new anonymity software program created by Austin Heap, called Haystack is <a href="http://fintandunnenews.blogspot.com/2009/07/geek-who-built-haystack-for-iran.html">just set to launch</a>. But that product will be undermined if the most popular Iranian opposition tag on Twitter is destroyed by cyberattack.</div><div><br /></div><div>A Twitter account at: <a href="http://twitter.com/iranelectnospam">http://twitter.com/iranelectnospam</a> has been set up to help educate users on how to filter out the spam. An online activist response is being coordinated in a <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/help-iran-online/11841-urgent-iran-opposition-under-cyberattack-twitter.html">topic thread</a> at the <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/">Anonymous Iran</a> forum.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">UPDATE:</span></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">12:00pm EST Sunday</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>After an overnight lull, the "Killer Software" spam is back Sunday. But the Twitter short links it is using, are no longer valid on bit.ly's link translation system. So there is no benefit in traffic to the originator. Just disruption of the #iranelection tag on Twitter.</div><div><br /></div><div>The originator of the spam is still unidentified. </div><div><br /></div><div>In response to a media enquiry by me, providing details of the affiliate code being used in the spam, <a href="http://www.turbocashgenerator.com/">turbocashgenerator.com</a> said it would have the spam stopped, but did not admit if the affiliate code was genuine, or if the company itself was responsible for the spam. Nevertheless the spam continues today.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>UPDATE:</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">2:00am EST Monday</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Thanks</b> to help from Tweeters and AnonymousIran members, though spam continues on Twitter, the spam level in the <a href="http://twitter.com/timeline/search?q=%23iranelection">#iranelection</a> tag is now reduced to a trickle. A number of spammers have been contacted directly by #iranelection's <a href="https://twitter.com/iranelectnospam">AntiSpam team</a> and have backed off. However, they or other spammers may show up again. We will continue an aggressive response to any spamming of #iranelection. Latest <a href="https://twitter.com/iranelectnospam">here</a>.</div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-78742015061985186562009-07-09T19:34:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.370+04:30Live Coverage: Iran 9th July Protests<div><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/18Tir-3.png" 20class=" style=" /><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold; "><img src="http://fintandunne.com/images/scottlucas.png" width="150" height="150" align="right" /></span><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Interview Guest:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Professor Scott Lucas</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Scott Lucas is </span></span></span><a href="http://www.uscanada.bham.ac.uk/staff/lucas.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Professor of American Studies</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Adjunct Professor of the Institute for North American and European Studies at the University of Tehran; also a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for American Studies and Research at American University Beirut. A specialist in US and British foreign policy, he has published extensively on Middle-East politics -especially on the Suez Crisis. Professor Lucas is a frequent contributor to American, British, and international media. He writes for, and is a founder of, the weblog </span></span></span><a href="http://enduringamerica.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">EnduringAmerica.com</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> --where he currently blogs unmissable news analysis and reporting.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span style=" line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/ScottLucas-FintanDunne-090709.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">LISTEN:</span></span></a></span></span></span><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/ScottLucas-FintanDunne-090709.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/ScottLucas-FintanDunne-090709.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Mp3 Audio</span></span></a></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/ScottLucas-FintanDunne-090709.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://fintandunne.com/audio/ScottLucas-FintanDunne-090709.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><img src="http://breakfornews.com/imgd/mp3a.gif" border="0" style="border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " /></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></span></div></div><br /><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Protester estimate subsequent to the above audio</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Based on analysis of considerable video evidence and news/tweet reports. From the reported totals at key locations - add those in these key location marches who did not make it to the center. Also from an analysis of videos depicting scenes at intersections; and reliable reports that the protests were widely scattered down to local level.</span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Guesstimate Methodology:</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Key Locations at peak: 7,000</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Surrounding these areas: 5,000</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Local intersections also: 10,000 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">(50 by 200avg per intersection)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Local street gatherings : 3,000 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">(50 by 60avg per street)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Estimated Total: ~<b>25,000 in Tehran</b></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2taLLKeNFZVq8G_yTr8m3kzHII-aSnHlAdUS08l9yHsqToFlSZPzoRBfUzsnuo81RU3ioIlq81fet7ja27FNX33oPmejTRg_Q-d7CzO0Av8yHPLmSgS0NjzK6uDPGfB8KzNJYrHXmrqJ/s1600-h/Tehran-July9-01.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2taLLKeNFZVq8G_yTr8m3kzHII-aSnHlAdUS08l9yHsqToFlSZPzoRBfUzsnuo81RU3ioIlq81fet7ja27FNX33oPmejTRg_Q-d7CzO0Av8yHPLmSgS0NjzK6uDPGfB8KzNJYrHXmrqJ/s400/Tehran-July9-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356500961041418754" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 219px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" 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Tehran</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div></div><blockquote><div><div><div><div><div>IranRiggedElectFrom Iran: Despite being beaten, general feeling is that we WON today!</div><div><br /></div><div>omidhabibiniaVideo: Tehran University Dorm 20.30 http://bit.ly/tMQBp</div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: RT: @IranAnon: <b>Do not underestimate the number of protesters today just bcuz they were scattered. They were at every crossing</b></div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: RT @omidhabibinia: Clashes at Narmak and Tehran Pars, 11PM...</div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElectFrom Isfahan: FAMILIES participated in the protest, women, seniors, everyone.</div><div><br /></div><div>lotfanVIDEO: People chanting,Mojtaba (khamanei's son) death to you, you shall never see the supreme leadership </div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: several srcs from #iran report: <b>Guards, plainclothes and police seemed tired and nervous today.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: Plainclothes claimed that they are going back to Amirkabir's dorm 2night.</div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: Plainclothes attacked Amirkarbir Univ Dorm: http://bit.ly/eZZ8p</div><div><br /></div><div>lotfan: RT @IranAnon: July 9th, tonight, in an area where allah o akbars had stopped, fortunately allah o akbars were heard again </div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: RT @.. Hearing VERY powerful shouts of "Allaho Akbar" here in Qeitarieh. I'm gonna go on the roof and join them. B back </div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: analysis:Less chants for Mousavi &against Ahmedinejad,more chants against Khamenei& Mojtaba = Escalation!</div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: RT @MikVerbrugge:<b> Today's reports showed the Basiji stretched thin. Certainly due 2 multiple simultaneous gatherings.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>LaraABCNews: Tehrani: police first struck people, then told them to leave. if store owners hadn't come to our rescue I don't know what would've happened</div><div><br /></div></div><div>jimsciuttoABC: One eyewitness heard gunshots at Engelab Sq and saw ppl fall. Anyone else hear/see the same?</div><div><br /></div><div><div>MikVerbrugge: Small groups seemed to be armed & used Molotov Cocktails. </div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: friend back says: bassij used a gas that burned our skins its still red and inflamed. Confirmed RT</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Snanadaj: ppl gathered too from 1930 oneards in main sq. but full of special forces to attck still there.</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: according to contact: pockets of violent resistance are forming, dispatch transcripts show many hotspots</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: thank you RT @Iranianrevolt i have same msg, armed police shooting plainclothes, from ppl claiming they r eyewitness <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Tehran 9:20pm</span></div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Tabriz: ABresan jnct and Univ.sq.hell of lot of gaurds would arrest any one suspicious.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: a call from Mashad: ppl in Park jct. up to 7/8000 dispersed and united later</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: guards tried very much to disperse ppl in Saadat abad bazar in vain</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>Nico:</b> Shootings reported. "Tweets passing around that there are heavy clashes near Azadi Square.. Word is out that 3 people have been shot by security forces."</div><div><br /></div><div><div>MikVerbrugge: The #nir team protecting "friend" personalities are out of harm's way, no casualties</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>MikVerbrugge: Tehran Basiji reporting heavy casulaties & many units either on the run or retreat. It's like entire <b>Tehran is an urban combat zone.</b> Security Forces uninterrupted requests for backup & distress coming fr all over Tehran. NIR taking out unidentified snipers, trying to keep situation calm until personalities they are protecting are out.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Combined tweets ~8:53pmTehran</span></div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: From emergency dispatch of Tehran: Fire in Mirdamad getting out of control <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">8:30pm Tehran</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: FR Tehran: clashes in Azadi, Enqelab, Vanq, Jomhouri, Valiasr </div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugg: Basij forces asking for re-enforcement in midtown</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: Chaos. Distress messages from security forces being shot at requesting airborne support.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: Unbelieveable msgs coming in: Uniformed POLICE force shooting at armed Basiji militia <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Unconfirmed early report 7:45 Tehran</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>MikVerbrugge: NIR Officers engaged in armed conflicts against Plainclothed.</div><div><br /></div><div>iranisccRT: @shab77: RT Reports ppl coming out of their homes, standing in their own streets, shouting Allah Akbar&death to dictators. </div><div><br /></div><div>iranisccRT: @IranTweet: Iranian from Tehran, Call IranTV - situation is so bad, that police are now also attacking each other" <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Unconfirmed early report</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div>lotfanRT: @BreakingNews: Reuters witness: Iranian police shoot in the air to disperse pro-reform demonstrators in Tehran; several detained.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Sec forces have put cars in midd of ferdowsi bt ppl still force in and chant still to UNI</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Ferdowsi ppl take away camera of a bassij filming them.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Uni slogans:"I will kill the one who killed my brother".."down with dictator" SHAH SOLTAN - VELAYAT ur times up</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: ppl R boo-ing the bassij and sec force as they try to disperse them & shout.. "shah Soltan Velayat ur time is up'</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: @TehranBureau <b>Sorry but it IS NOT quiet</b> ! ppl are every where. Unless our friends are fooling around with all the screams and slogans !</div><div><br /></div><div>omidhabibinia: Police Shooting Teargas at Poeple infront of Tehran University.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: RT @shab77: RT @omidhabibinia Clashes At Vali Asr Sq. Spreading to all nearby Streets including Vila St...</div><div><br /></div><div>lotfan: Cell network is shut down around enghelab #iranelection</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: RT @IranTweet: Accts of 100s to 1000s protesters gathering near Tehran Univ. Basij responding w/ btgs, tear gas, arrests. </div><div><br /></div><div>jimsciuttoABC: Protesters are getting their #'s up. 100s, possib 1000s gathered at both Tehran Univ and Vali Asr Sq. Demo's growing </div><div><br /></div><div>lotfan: Clashes At Vali Asr Sq. Spreading to all nearby Streets including Vila St...</div><div><br /></div><div>omidhabibinia: Clashes At Vali Asr Sq. Spreading to all nearby Streets incl Vila St...</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Vali asr ppl gathered sec forces attacked violently with everything.. ppl scattered in groups</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: From Tehran Uni to begining of Enghelab st at least 4000 ppl clapping full Bassij presence some scattred</div><div><br /></div><div>omidhabibinia: Heavy Clashes at Vali Asr Sq. #iranelection</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Tehran most have masks. well prep. & organized ..all clapping in unity</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Tehran:Bassij try to prevent ppl from entering enghelab sq </div><div><br /></div><div>lotfanRT: @omidhabibinia: Reports of Clashes at Dravzeh Shiraz, Isfehan. </div><div><br /></div><div>lotfanRT: @IranRiggedElect: AFP: Seifzadeh and Dadkhah, HR lawyers and founders of Ebadi's rights group were arrested http://bit.ly/OmIuH</div><div><br /></div><div><b>jimsciuttoABC: With # of security forces & govt threats, fear possib at highest level so far. To see protesters defy that is remarkable</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live report: Shots being heard from different parts of Tehran.</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live report: Unrest in Shiraz, Sari, Isfahan & many other cities being confirmed.</div><div><br /></div><div>lotfan: Mashhad is reported to be very quiet</div><div><br /></div><div>lotfan: People rallying from Imam Hossein suqare towards Enghelab</div><div><br /></div><div>lotfanProtests in Iran on key reform anniversary http://bit.ly/17yEGM #iranelection</div><div><br /></div><div>jimsciuttoABC: Accts of 100s to 1000s of protesters gathering near Tehran Univ. Basij responding w/ btgs, tear gas, arrests. </div><div><br /></div><div>iranisccRT: @shab77: Mashhad: protesters around the shrine. Isfahan:Ppl assembled b/w Si-o-Seh pol&Khajoo bridge.Lots of plain cloths. </div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: RT @shab77: RT @fahimn Heavy Clashes at Karegar Shomali St, (Near Enghlab Sq.) Tear gas, Fire and blockage...</div><div><br /></div><div>IranRiggedElect: AFP: Seifzadeh and Dadkhah, two HR lawyers and founders of Shirin Ebadi's rights group were arrested http://bit.ly/OmIuH</div><div><br /></div><div>iranisccRT: @Pray4FreeIran: RT @jimsciuttoABC: One witness: basij throwing protesters from pedestrian bridges in Shiraz <i>UNconfirmed</i></div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: girl arrested and dragged and beaten while being dragged. her hair&cloths in bad sit. taken away by bassij</div><div><br /></div><div>omidhabibinia: Hundreds of Protesters chanting against the regime infron of Ploytechnic University, Near Azadi Sq. (not conf) </div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Enghelab sq packed with people from side streets, Basiji attacking them with batons & tear gas dick clubs</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: RT @Pray4FreeIran: RT @iran88: Clashes reported in Saatad Abad. Hundreds of protesters sitting on the ground in 12-e-Farvardin.</div><div><br /></div><div>iranisccRT: @Pray4FreeIran: RT Choppers now in the air from Enghelab Sq thru Laleh Park.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Confirmed: No Mobile Network at Centrlal Tehran </div><div><br /></div><div>jimsciuttoABC: Another witness: police throwing tear gas into buses, some protesters gathering near Tehran Univ</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: reg forces withdrawn from Enghelab and guards are put in...GOD plz help us. We have to do it</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>jimsciuttoABC: One witness: basij throwing protesters from pedestrian bridges in Shiraz</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live reports : Seem to be circling Cult. Inst. of Darolzahra,where the prayer service is.</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live reports : Basij & plainclothed at & around Dr. Beheshti Sq.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: freind says; some bassij have local accent likeAstaara region: regime mobilised from all Iran for 2day</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live reports : Guards units being ordered to Dr. Beheshti Street</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live reports : Regular Security Forces ordered to leave Enghelab Sq. Guards units taking over</div><div><br /></div><div>MikVerbrugge: live reports : Riot Guards moving to Enghelab sq - Police force being ordered back to bases.</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: Cars in Jomhouri junct. form of protest with horns.Bassij seen equipped with ax and pick batons</div><div><br /></div><div>iraniscc: RT @Pray4FreeIran: URGENT INFO for Teargas : Im a Biochemist. Mix half vol antiacid half H2O for eyes mouth ears nose </div><div><br /></div><div><b>iraniscc: @huffingtonpost CONFIRMED PROTESTS IN tehran, shiraz, isfahan, ahwaz, babol, kerman, mashhad, sari</b></div><div><br /></div><div>omidhabibinia: Army Unit (IRG) Positioned infront of Interior Ministry. #iranelection</div></blockquote><div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">UPDATES FOLLOW IN THIS POSTING -REFRESH PAGE</span></b></div><div><br /></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-14656266672969422822009-07-09T07:20:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.383+04:30The Geek Who Built a Haystack For Iran<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4T7hlHu4nTbq6Hc11Nu8TSpcNzMqrMoQIPAd-Q4l0l7ObkawpVPJxQeLwHWwPex7_3RJxbVgX4FbfAnIrYpGhC8WBN3nRGadjo0mbfO8UYPLU6bX5C2nQBvwPddbJkbgXr_34TSUtgmZC/s1600-h/geekiran.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4T7hlHu4nTbq6Hc11Nu8TSpcNzMqrMoQIPAd-Q4l0l7ObkawpVPJxQeLwHWwPex7_3RJxbVgX4FbfAnIrYpGhC8WBN3nRGadjo0mbfO8UYPLU6bX5C2nQBvwPddbJkbgXr_34TSUtgmZC/s400/geekiran.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356283626874617170" /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4T7hlHu4nTbq6Hc11Nu8TSpcNzMqrMoQIPAd-Q4l0l7ObkawpVPJxQeLwHWwPex7_3RJxbVgX4FbfAnIrYpGhC8WBN3nRGadjo0mbfO8UYPLU6bX5C2nQBvwPddbJkbgXr_34TSUtgmZC/s1600-h/geekiran.jpg"></a><br />You may know of <a href="http://www.austinheap.com/">Austin Heap</a> from his fight with Comedy Central, after he established a website to host free-view episodes of South Park. He's fighting a different battle these days: building a software system called Haystack to enable Iranians bypass state censorship of the internet - as TehranBureau.com reports:<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">In his converted loft apartment in the semi-sketchy-meets-startup SoMa neighborhood, Austin Heap, 25, spends most of his time in front of his computer — a PC tower that he built himself and hacked to run Mac OS X.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Heap didn’t have much knowledge or interest in Iran until very recently. As foreign media began to be kicked out of the country, information coming from online sources became that much more crucial.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">“Three weeks ago I was very happy playing Warcraft and I was following the Iran election,” he says. “But it wasn’t until everything escalated there that I got involved.”</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">On June 15, three days after the election, Heap sprung into action....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><b>Read On at</b>: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><a href="http://tehranbureau.com/geeks-globe-rally-iranians-online/">http://tehranbureau.com/geeks-globe-rally-iranians-online/</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">See <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/business/407307_proxy17.html?source=rss">this</a> article also. </span></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://tehranbureau.com/geeks-globe-rally-iranians-online/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></a></div></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-12284077623075796902009-07-09T07:00:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.405+04:30The Man As Disabled as Iranian Democracy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaN53fvt2eg2IdWi05ZSgefIH7JFsmbru0n4myLplFdPGV_uniuv4bWDM8tT2sCJPLcgNGu8K3Kk0C6MhSthd_8uioSjfDoTtziqzO03YpcLw_O4KJwwyINOy8Swy7m33vpXZTk25kcuw8/s1600-h/saeed-hajjarian.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaN53fvt2eg2IdWi05ZSgefIH7JFsmbru0n4myLplFdPGV_uniuv4bWDM8tT2sCJPLcgNGu8K3Kk0C6MhSthd_8uioSjfDoTtziqzO03YpcLw_O4KJwwyINOy8Swy7m33vpXZTk25kcuw8/s400/saeed-hajjarian.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356296744587239538" /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaN53fvt2eg2IdWi05ZSgefIH7JFsmbru0n4myLplFdPGV_uniuv4bWDM8tT2sCJPLcgNGu8K3Kk0C6MhSthd_8uioSjfDoTtziqzO03YpcLw_O4KJwwyINOy8Swy7m33vpXZTk25kcuw8/s1600-h/saeed-hajjarian.jpg"></a><br /><div>When Neda Agha-Soltan was gunned down by an armed motorcyclist in a Tehran street, the world recoiled in horror. The grisly scene was a repeat of a similar incident in 2000, when a prominent reformist journalist and politician, Saeed Hajjarian narrowly escaped assassination - also by a gunman on a motorcycle. Both murder bids <a href="http://www.iranfocus.com/en/human-rights/iran-security-agents-in-spotlight-for-plainclothed-brutality-18286.html">are thought</a> to be the work of the 'Lebas Shakhsiha' - plainclothes security agents who operate beyond the reach of the law. </div><div><br /></div><div>Shot in the face and neck, his injuries in that attack left Hajjarian severely disabled and needing constant medical care. Notwithstanding his severe disablement he was detained by Iranian authorities on June 15th.</div><div><br /></div><div>After visiting him in prison, Vajiheh Marsousi, the wife of the dissident intellectual said his life is in danger due to his poor health and lack of medical care; and that he was under intense pressure to sign a false confession about an imaginary foreign plot to overthrow the government. He is now thought to be in a coma. Human Rights Watch has <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/07/08/iran-detainees-describe-beatings-pressure-confess">called</a> for his release. </div><div><br /></div><div>Back in 1972, Professor Muhammad Sahimi, of TehranReport.com <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">(whom we interviewed </span><a href="http://fintandunne.blogspot.com/2009/06/advantage-rafsanjani-and-mousavi-as.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">)</span> was a classmate of Hajjarian's in Tehran University. His profile of the man he describes as "one of the most important intellectuals and political thinkers of Iran over the past few decades," is <a href="http://tehranbureau.com/saeed-hajjarian/">here</a>.</div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-16282237201109769322009-07-09T02:01:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.351+04:30Cyberwar Still Rages to Halt Protester Identification<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCnQsRByi_Osr5dJ5zgvbyiTIKN-d2joTvZCE1nXjowmdtYX6ZQKgv05ltw_tX2F4g7hxRt8lqttiZ5JA5ocJHWxRxplF9R1J-YyRmCtXSvgK56MO93Eb9ZE48iShAL1ahJWL-aNHeK1G/s1600-h/protest-id.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCnQsRByi_Osr5dJ5zgvbyiTIKN-d2joTvZCE1nXjowmdtYX6ZQKgv05ltw_tX2F4g7hxRt8lqttiZ5JA5ocJHWxRxplF9R1J-YyRmCtXSvgK56MO93Eb9ZE48iShAL1ahJWL-aNHeK1G/s400/protest-id.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356221700750159474" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">SAMPLE PHOTO OF PROTESTERS</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We have blurred the image to prevent identification</span></span>.</div><div><br /></div><div>A high-stakes, cyberwar is still raging to prevent webpages full of photos from being used to identify, imprison and likely abuse or torture Iranian street protesters. One website, <a href="http://www.gerdab.ir/">Gerdab.ir</a> has in the last 24 hours posted 70 new photos of the protesters, with identifiable faces ringed by red circles. Currently it is the main target in the cyberwar.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>The battle has been ongoing since these photos first appeared on a number of websites, with 'hack-tivists' scoring major successes and bringing down key sites in the last two weeks. But it's an online war which has ebbed and flowed, as defensive measures were deployed by the <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/help-iran-online/6194-condensed-list-sites-w-pictures-part-1-a.html">target websites</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The website <a href="http://www.sahandnews.com/">sahandnews.com</a> redirected it's domain IP pointers from its servers in Canada to new ones in Germany, and at time of writing its protester ID page is still online. Another site, <a href="http://www.shahabnews.com/">shahabnews.com</a> has been forced offline. Website <a href="http://www.bultannews.com/">bultannews.com</a> removed it's <a href="http://www.bultannews.com/pages/?cid=14164">protester identification page</a> to escape the ire of the politically-motivated hackers.</div><div><br /></div><div>At least one website, <a href="http://www.khodkar.ir/">khodkar.ir</a> was suspended by its internet domain hosting service. After an approach by an activist, Jottie Tolatzis on behalf of LeaseWeb confirmed that the company would take the website offline.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some of those participating in the cyberwar range are amateurs who simply repeatedly load the target pages to slow them down on the internet. Others are experienced hackers deploying sophisticated denial-of-service <a href="http://pastebay.com/24982">tactics</a> and <a href="http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris">software</a> to take entire websites offline.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the most prominent internet locations where activists coordinate their cyberwar campaign is <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/">Anonymous Iran</a>, where <a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/help-iran-online/6194-condensed-list-sites-w-pictures-part-1-a.html">a list of the webpages</a> which contain protester photos has been posted. The '<a href="http://iran.whyweprotest.net/help-iran-online/">Help Iran Online</a>' section of the site has many discussion threads tracking the progress of attempts to block the target websites.</div><div><br /></div><div>The outcome of the cyberwar has serious implications for the protesters seen in the photos. If they are identified and incarcerated their fate is dire. Amnesty International has repeatedly <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran">expressed concern</a> that detainees face torture or other ill-treatment in Iran. Credible accounts say that rape of prisoners is taking place.</div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-6784073931228249512009-07-07T23:44:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.393+04:30Blackout! The Repression will not be Televised<div><div><b>Ahmadinejad TV speech met by rooftop cries, power blackouts</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a 30 minute address on Iranian national television Tuesday night, claiming that the turnout and his officially declared victory gave the government new legitimacy. </div><div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG2UmCd9JUpamjdm3B8sqsaB5h71t89yyFKLdD5qHfMzRnsSI9jMdOy7JK-Bh_G38unCtGqE-oz_DM7rBIBkCNzR2PHZ9OvvtYQUcbh17zZKFaiKc9S08ibnL0ZA9pO0Q019O0GCsWVbm-/s400/Ahmadinejad-Blackout.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355855694490735650" /><div>"This is a new beginning for Iran ... we have entered a new era," Ahmadinejad said. "This election has doubled the dignity of the Iranian nation."</div></div><div><br /></div><div>But according to an Associated Press <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGSJEAPs_r2T2wxsL5G3t4z-jajQD999OSNO2">report</a>, his television speech was delivered to the sound of cries of "Death to the Dictator" and "God is Great" heard shouted from rooftops in many parts of Tehran.</div><div><br /></div><div>The speech was also accompanied by widespread electricity blackouts said claims by online protesters using Twitter. The protesters had earlier pre-arranged a call for Iranians to plug in heavy power load household devices such as dryers, irons and toasters at 9:45pm local time, as Ahmadinejad's speech began. </div><div><br /></div><div>Online Twitter feeds claimed blackouts were achieved in East Tehran, Sari, Tabriz, Isfehan, Rodehen, Saghez, Lavasan, Ahvaz, Khoramshahr, Dezfol, Jahrom, Khomini Shahr, Shahin Shar, Folad Shahr, Kashan and some of Rasht.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Screenshots of a brief blackout of the televised speech were <a href="http://twitpic.com/9m7cx#">posted online</a> by Swiss-based, Iranian journalist <a href="http://twitter.com/omidhabibinia">Omid Habibinia</a> - a regular tweeter of protest news from Iran.</div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;">TWITTER FEEDS REFERING TO THE BLACKOUT PROTEST:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">omidhabibinia: Iron Tactic tonight: Call for Black Out During Ahmadinejad Live at TV , Tehran Time 21.30... #Iranelection</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 5 hours ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Ahmadinejad will appear on TV in a few mins (21.45 Tehran Time) we are waitting what will happen!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 2 hours ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">People Turning ON all Electric Devices while Ahmadinejad is speaking on TV...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 2 hours ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Yes It Worked! #iranelection</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 2 hours ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Ghazvin went in Black Out, People Chanting" Death to Dictator" on the roofs in many cities...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Live Broadcast intr. few seconds in dark till emergency electric generators charging the power</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">...North Part of Karj Black Out </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Black Out: Sari, Tabriz, Isfehan, Rodehen, Saghez, Lavasan...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Bassij forces attacked some people in Tehran Now on the roofs in the dark. (not conf)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Black Out: All Steet Lamps in East Part of Tehran Turned Off!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">It is More than 45 mins, People Still chanting on the roofs all over the city: Death To the Dictator!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Black Out: East of Tehran, Ahvaz, Khoramshahr, Dezfol, Jahrom...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Black Out: Khomini Shahr, Shahin Shar, Folad Shahr, Kashan...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Black Out: Half Part of Rasht went in dark.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">about 1 hour ago from web</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">manfredmarz: "This is a new beginning for Iran ... we have entered a new era,.... and the answer was a BLACK OUT... a REAL TIME</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=black%20out%20%23iranelection">SEARCH TWITTER FOR BLACKOUT REPORTS</a></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"></span></span></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-34536974815473118772009-07-07T07:51:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.414+04:30Mousavi: "This Movement Will Continue"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPJ0wd4DgdVlK_iBIOVTXhRl4N3VoN0FLRwjoJbX3lKLAv1ZuZDkNTYTyvG39KAkWwc-V-LVPWAoP1hak6iQuTaGrzW2p7atUa_ID0Ki3abDA4VuqxdgpaXWJeMW62LJbO18FqP_VsUVj/s1600-h/mousavi1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPJ0wd4DgdVlK_iBIOVTXhRl4N3VoN0FLRwjoJbX3lKLAv1ZuZDkNTYTyvG39KAkWwc-V-LVPWAoP1hak6iQuTaGrzW2p7atUa_ID0Ki3abDA4VuqxdgpaXWJeMW62LJbO18FqP_VsUVj/s400/mousavi1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355609774618402194" /></a><br /><br /><div>Popularly-mandated Iranian presidential election candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, referring to ongoing resistance to the official election result, declared Monday in Tehran that "this movement will continue," according to <a href="http://209.85.227.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fa&tl=en&u=http://www.parsine.com/pages/%3Fcid%3D8910&prev=hp&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhiCgxB1_xtEVRu2bpZRXwsZwGrCYw">a report</a> on Parsine.com.</div><div><div><div><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKv60SQWZlN-65HGT2aIxQC_jg6qcfYYmKj3NXaRLj2-XRnHkBuFSkYA_Z4D7xjMxYXZoXNgwwpczOAD-sgty5qqKG2afTC0_SU9jEpQTwTi8v7R5SA2TJPTJAElU9zcTZE4SCRCy7JFZ_/s400/mousavi2.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 182px; height: 271px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355610323285576994" /><div>In statesman-like comments, Mousavi insisted that the government had no legitimacy because of the popular vote, but that nevertheless "we must proceed through the framework of the law." </div><div><br /></div><div>Mousavi was addressing guests in the informal setting of an art gallery, on a holiday in honor of Shiite saint, Imam Ali.</div><div><br /></div><div>The statements are a continuation of a recent policy of not giving grounds to the government for accusing him of formenting public disorder.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Mousavi also spoke to relatives of those detained in a side meeting to his attendance. He also met with Mehdi Karoubi and former president Mohammad Khatami on Monday and the trio called for the immediate release of detained protesters, his website reported.</div><div><br /></div><div>Despite his low-key address there was no indication that a protest rally scheduled for Thursday in the center of Tehran, adjacent to the university was cancelled. That day is also the ten-year anniversary of the Basij militia raid on Tehran University to suppress student protest. In addition to the scheduled Tehran march, rallies are also planned for other Iranian cities, including Shiraz, Mashhad, Esfahan and Tabriz, according to <a href="http://tehranbureau.com/eye-storm-18th-tir/">an editorial</a> on TehranReport.com.</div><div><br /></div><div>A sandstorm continues to blow through Tehran and much of Iran. In a sign of government nerves, SMS text messaging services, which had been functioning again for the last five days were again cut off in the capital. The state-controlled media outlet, PressTV.ir has been silent on political developments for the last 24 hours.</div><div><br /></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZKQbY7ryuDq9Qkmoe_IH77UUxzq7Gk60xExK23RoW25IJ5uNk_Ui_DNjWWoCO2aOThV3e_tO_PD9idPmzGjAidF7l3r9IUvC4jZCvS2nJZO5c31sEKBPzF3jtnRp546lW8EWU6nE5IU8/s1600-h/x-spot.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZKQbY7ryuDq9Qkmoe_IH77UUxzq7Gk60xExK23RoW25IJ5uNk_Ui_DNjWWoCO2aOThV3e_tO_PD9idPmzGjAidF7l3r9IUvC4jZCvS2nJZO5c31sEKBPzF3jtnRp546lW8EWU6nE5IU8/s400/x-spot.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355599488511172994" /></a><br /></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-89733269721841873842009-07-07T04:28:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.424+04:30An Anti-Basij Urban Warfare Lesson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJK3ccscmWgTHGvnAreWr1yA5Fuc9PJc0r_xSMAkLxPsJvR3D5e3nlvIuCxcy5Ur4NKdzetNcvLMFcfRDgpA7xqapXjeKTEVOdtCjIemHMl1rvjpMNjGiU7lCb2bMHi5HxjStxO064zX9/s1600-h/vasabaha-basij.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJK3ccscmWgTHGvnAreWr1yA5Fuc9PJc0r_xSMAkLxPsJvR3D5e3nlvIuCxcy5Ur4NKdzetNcvLMFcfRDgpA7xqapXjeKTEVOdtCjIemHMl1rvjpMNjGiU7lCb2bMHi5HxjStxO064zX9/s400/vasabaha-basij.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355504682123039906" /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJK3ccscmWgTHGvnAreWr1yA5Fuc9PJc0r_xSMAkLxPsJvR3D5e3nlvIuCxcy5Ur4NKdzetNcvLMFcfRDgpA7xqapXjeKTEVOdtCjIemHMl1rvjpMNjGiU7lCb2bMHi5HxjStxO064zX9/s1600-h/vasabaha-basij.jpg"></a></div><br />Website Vasabaha.com <a href="http://vasabaha.com/1388/04/07/mikh/">features</a> a highly inventive urban warfare training video and photos --designed to equip protesters with effective tactics to disable Basij security forces on motorcycles.<br /><br />It describes an array of type-puncturing devices constructed from easily available raw materials, such as plastic bottle tops and nails. This street conflict is maturing fast.<br /><br /><embed src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" width="430" height="362" id="nnqbj2iq" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="player.c=v&player.v=4fc0e0c5-dea5-4a49-b2be-e4e4137aaf0a&mkt=fr-FR&ifs=true&fr=shared"></embed>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-45945444860441122942009-07-07T03:23:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.434+04:30Green is the Color of Dissent - Silenced<div>The photo shows one protest tactic being used on statues in Iran.</div><div><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuI09ZkGA9nNSwR5Tz8As-t3dI5hAFJkCuoUIF5Cg5qBwqJVcYVIjPcbIuphjDIhn3xlsxa8jN28rkBxEQhir8n5kUibLLCVDEC2UVs22o_min3qlC2d2TQX0GwYGkFcXs3PUtBsAhQy6Z/s400/iran-statue.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355486692348288178" /><div><b>In other news circulating today on usually reliable Twitter feeds:</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Photos of election protests around the world are being forwarded widely in Iran. </div><div><br /></div><div>SMS service has been shut down once again in Tehran. </div><div><br /></div><div>A sandstorm in Tehran is allowing protesters to go through the city writing anti-government slogans on city walls. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s son-in-law has been disowned by his father. Mahdi Khorsheedi’s father now says he no longer has a son named Mahdi because he had sided with Ahmadinejad. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hamid Maddah, a core member of Mousavi’s campaign in Mashhad, died in custody on Saturday. He had been arrested in Gowharshad Mosque along with many other Mousavi supporters. According to sources, he had been tortured badly and wasn’t able to recover. The official death certificate registers the cause of death as internal bleeding in the skull. </div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222497759744746578.post-16590088437443130712009-07-06T23:50:00.000+04:302009-07-14T03:44:23.442+04:3092 Killed in Tehran Say Doctors Who FledOne of a pair of Iranian doctors, who fled the capital to France says an unofficial tally by medical staff at Tehran area hospitals counted 92 violent deaths related to conflicts with security forces. The death toll is considerably at variance with an official figure of 17 deaths.<div><br /></div><div>The account of events in Tehran by the doctors, who declined to be identified for reasons of personal safety has been <a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/07/06/01003-20090706ARTFIG00225-des-medecins-iraniens-temoignent-de-la-repression-.php">published today</a> in the online edition of the French newspaper <i>Le Figaro</i>. They say that intimidation prevented them revealing the scale of casualties but motivated them to flee to France to reveal the details.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the dead were an eight months pregnant woman and six young males found dead in Shahriar, on the outskirts of the capital. "They all died from wounds in the neck," said the second unidentified doctor, quoting information from a trusted medical colleague. "Their skulls had been smashed and their brains had been opened, presumably to retrieve the bullet and destroy evidence of the crime."</div><div><br /></div><div>On June 15th, dubbed "Black Monday" by the second doctor, the Rasoul Akram Hospital, near Tehran University, received 38 casualties, including 28 wounded and 10 dead. </div><div><br /></div><div>"We found that the bullets had passed through the torsos diagonally, which means they were fired from above - ie a roof," says the second doctor.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>To conceal the nature of the assaults, doctors at Tehran hospitals were forced to certify that the deceased died of natural causes. A colleague of the second doctor who was on emergency duty at Erfan Hospital, paid a price for refusing to cooperate. "After being missing for thirty-six hours, he was found half-conscious and disfigured on the sidewalk near the hospital," he told <i>Le Figaro</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>"In several hospitals - including Rasoul Akram and Imam Khomeini - we organized sit-in protests. But state television, they said it was a strike for better wages." </div><div><br /></div><div>Due to resistance by medical staff, the bodies of some protesters were speedily removed. "We think they were transferred to the Baqiatollah military hospital or a place unknown to the general public," says the doctor. Then, under the pretext of "organ donation", the evidence of bullet wounds were excised. Families were forced to go along with the deception in order to recover the remains for burial.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>Le Figaro</i> article adds that a witness in Tehran, contacted by telephone told the newspaper that burials in the public cemetery at Behecht-e Zahra take place under surveillance, with the cause of death prohibited to be indicated on gravestones.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/07/06/01003-20090706ARTFIG00225-des-medecins-iraniens-temoignent-de-la-repression-.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><b>Original Le Figaro article ></b></span></a></div></div>FintanDunnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13110494763820672827noreply@blogger.com0