Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: 40th day after Neda killed, Basij, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, Civil Disobedience, Dictatorship, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Military, Iran Protests, Khamenei, Letter from Iran, Martyr, Martyr Culture, Military Dictatorship, Mojtaba Khamenei, mousavai, Neda, Neda Agha-Soltan, Police brutality, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shooting, Sohrab
The security forces were using batons, chains, whips, tasers, paint-ball guns, and I saw handguns in the hands of three of them. There was a rumor that a few were shot at in Vanak Square. Two people were picked up near us and people tried to chase after the security forces to get the young men back, but it was a futile chase. Until around 11pm the streets were full of people. At 10pm the shouts of Allah-o Akbar and Death to the Dictator were being screamed from the rooftops all over the city until 10.30pm.
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Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: 40th day after Neda killed, Basij, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, CBC, Civil Disobedience, Haddi Ghaffari, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Iranian Republic, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Live-blogging, Martyr Culture, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Neda, NewsWeek, Reza Sayah, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shiraz, TIME
[10:30 AM Tehran Time]
Quote “The feeling today”:
One plus One, adds to two,
The percentage of the vote that went to You.
Two plus Two, three and four,
The max number of months till you’re out the Door.
Three plus three, adds to six,
The system that you have just can’t be Fixed.
Four plus four, totals eight,
Everything you are adds up [...]
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Posted on 11 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Basij, Hezzbullah, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, KhamCo, Khamenei, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, People of Iran, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Taghiyeh, Yazdi
They used the enormous power and wealth of the Iranian nation and instead of focusing on improving the lives of its citizens thereby proving that it was possible to have the word “Islamic” next to “Republic” in the name they had bestowed upon Iran, they focused this immense energy at their disposal on crushing the concept of Islamic Republic. They obliterated it.
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Posted on 09 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Ahvaz, Amir Kabir University, Azadi Square, Babol, Basij, Clerical Rule, Clerics, Dezfol, Dictatorship, Eghelab Square, European Union, Evin Prison, Freedom Movement, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hamadan, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran News, Iran Protests, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Isfahan, Israel, July 9, Kerman, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Mullacracy, Mullahs, Nicolas Sarkozy, NiteOwl, Pasdaran, Police brutality, republican guard, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sari, Sea of Green, Shiraz, Shirin Ebadi, Student Uprising, Tabriz, tear gas, Tehran, Tehran University, Valiasr, Vanak
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 08 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Arrests, Basij, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hashemi Rafsanjani, IIPF, Iran, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran News, Islamic Iranian Participation Front, July 9, Kermanshah, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sea of Green, Shiraz, Tehran
International media is reporting that Mojtaba Khamenei – the son of Ayatollah Khamenei – has taken direct control of Iran’s militia group (Basij) in order to suppress the Sea of Green. They also report that officials within other security forces, along with the powerful clergy, are not happy with the situation. However, solid confirmations from our Iranian sources have yet to be confirmed.
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