Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, Facebook, Falun Gong, Global Internet Freedom Consortium, Google, Hillary Clinton, Internet Freedom, Internet Technology, Iran Revolutionary Guards, New York Times, Twitter, Twitter Revolution, U.S. Congress, U.S. State Department, U.S. Treasury Department
(The New York Times) | March 7, 2010
By MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday.
On Monday, he said, the [...]
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Posted on 06 December 2009. Tags: 16th of Azar, 2009 TIME Person of the Year, Action Potential, Basij, Chaos Theory, Cohesion, Communications, Conscious Reflection, Consciousness, Dictatorship, Election Protests, Facebook, Featured, Fractals, Government Censorship, Government Sanctioned Violence, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Supreme Leader, Islam, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mainstream Media, Mousavi, Neda Agha-Soltan, Non-violent resistance, People Power, Power, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shah of Iran, Student's Day, Twitter, Tyranny, Web 2.0, Where is my vote?, YouTube
Sadness to me is the happiest time
When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind
Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth,
The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
Rumi
It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the people of Iran shattered the [...]
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Posted on 29 November 2009. Tags: Facebook, Featured, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Iran Protests, Khamenei, LinkedIn, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Mowjcamp, MySpace, post-election crackdown, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Social Networks as mediums for Change, Twitter
(Mowjcamp)
Hamid Dabashi
A rather peculiar reference to a prominent nineteenth century philosopher made Mir Hossein Mousavi’s letter to Ayatollah Montazeri of some urgent interest.
More than three months into the post-electoral crisis of June 2009, the chief oppositional candidate, who had cried foul soon after the officially declared victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had written a letter to [...]
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Posted on 03 July 2009. Tags: Ayatollah Jannati, Basij, BBC, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, British Embassy in Iran, Censorship, China, Dutch government, European Union, Evin Prison, Facebook, Forced Confession, Germany, Government Censorship, Grand Ayatollah Sanei, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran Protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, mock trials, Mousavi, Neda, protestors killed, Russia, Sea of Green, Sistan Baluchistan, Twitter, YouTube, Zahra Rahnavard
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]
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Posted on 02 July 2009. Tags: Ahmad Khatami, Amnesty International, Arash Hejazi, Arrests, Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani, Ayatollah Taheri, Basij, BBC, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, Canada, Censorship, China, Dictatorship, Egypt, European Union, Evin Prison, Facebook, Government Censorship, Green Brief, Haddi Ghaffari, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Interpol, Iran Elections, Iran Green Movement, Iran Majles, Iran Parliament, Iran Protests, Jordan, Khamenei, Kharasan, Laleh Park, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Maziar Bahari, Mehdi Karoubi, Montazeri, Mourning Mothers, Mousavi, Muslim Brotherhood, Neda, NewsWeek, Press TV, Qazvin, Qom, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Russia, Saeed Hajjarian, Shiraz, Tabriz, Torture
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]
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