News is still bleak. Protesters have been fired upon by bullets, teargas, and allegedly a burning agent.
To the Iranians, I offer up words from Ronald Reagan mid-December 1981:
“Our sympathies are with the people, not the government.”
"But the torch of liberty is hot. It warms those who hold it high. It burns those who try to extinguish it."
Oh what we'd give for leaders who stand up for liberty and freedom!!
Update:
Iranian TV is mistranslating Obama to make him sound as if he supports the people. Also, a horrifying video (CONTENT WARNING!!) of a young girl getting shot. Heartbreaking.
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Iran and Twitter
This doesn't seem to be dying down at all. Pictures are getting gruesome. The Iranian authorities have clamped down on foreign press. Lecturers are resigning from the University(ies?).
Some of the Twitter feeds have been compromised. But, still, in all this chaos, word comes out about the atrocities.
To all the press, please stop using user names of those giving you your information. You're getting people killed over there! Consequences!
Some of the Twitter feeds have been compromised. But, still, in all this chaos, word comes out about the atrocities.
To all the press, please stop using user names of those giving you your information. You're getting people killed over there! Consequences!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Iran and Election Fraud
If you aren't following the Iranian thing, you should be. Twitter has been a good asset for the opposition.
It seems that Iranian officials did indeed offer up a sham of an election. If they didn't, arresting the opposition didn't make their side look all that much brighter. Attempting to quell the information about the whole ordeal by cutting electricity to major cities doesn't bode well either.
For what it's worth, I think Ahmadinejad has lost his mind in all this. Hard to tell when that happened, though. His answers to "the tough questions" always seemed vague and non-answers to me. "Can you ensure the safety of your challenger?" "I love all the Iranian peoples and if they disobey the law when coming out of a sporting event at a stadium, they will be arrested, but I love them all even though I have to arrest them." (Now, I know I paraphrased the Amanpour interview, but the hopeychangy answer is just too "wtf?" to fully portray it.)
If you don't want to sign up for teh Twitter, you can go here and just keep refreshing the page. You can also follow: Change_for_Iran, StopAhmadi, iran09, TehranBureau, alirezasha, and jimsciuttoABC.
Some of the best pictures coming out of the protests, so far, here. #17 and #19 are wrong!
Update: Moe Lane reminds me who sang the song running in my head for the last 2 days:
It seems that Iranian officials did indeed offer up a sham of an election. If they didn't, arresting the opposition didn't make their side look all that much brighter. Attempting to quell the information about the whole ordeal by cutting electricity to major cities doesn't bode well either.
For what it's worth, I think Ahmadinejad has lost his mind in all this. Hard to tell when that happened, though. His answers to "the tough questions" always seemed vague and non-answers to me. "Can you ensure the safety of your challenger?" "I love all the Iranian peoples and if they disobey the law when coming out of a sporting event at a stadium, they will be arrested, but I love them all even though I have to arrest them." (Now, I know I paraphrased the Amanpour interview, but the hopeychangy answer is just too "wtf?" to fully portray it.)
If you don't want to sign up for teh Twitter, you can go here and just keep refreshing the page. You can also follow: Change_for_Iran, StopAhmadi, iran09, TehranBureau, alirezasha, and jimsciuttoABC.
Some of the best pictures coming out of the protests, so far, here. #17 and #19 are wrong!
Update: Moe Lane reminds me who sang the song running in my head for the last 2 days:
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