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A cartoon by Mana Neyestani, Iranian cartoonist: You can see some other work by Mana in Radio Zamaneh(Persian description). This one is one of his great work concerning the election. UPDATE: Tehran Broadcast a New webpage in English that aims to bridge the gap between English and Persian news makers/media/ bloggers.

In another day of silent protest in Tehran, Mousavi invited people on a mourning march. Tens of thousands of people got together wearing black cloths and carying candles for those that have been killed during the last few days clashes. Mousavi and his wife Rahnavard were leading the protest. Meanwhile the government has made a [...]

Today there is another quiet protest in Tehran. People are walking quiet towards one of the main squares in Tehran. Unfortunately there has been reports of killings in other cities and in Tehran and student organization Tahkim vahdat has reported that there has been up to 7 death in the attack to university of Tehran [...]

Yesterday’s massive demonstrations has been mostly non violent with people giving flowers to the riot police and walking in silence. Mousavi’s presence in the crowd of millions has given hopes to all those who voted that someone is going to support their demonstrations. Afterward with the provocative air shooting of militias group (basij) the crowd [...]

Watch BBC’s report from Tehran. The situation after Friday’s election has been rising. Last night Students in the University of Tehran has been attacked and by some reports 3 students have been killed while many others arrested and beaten up. Watch the report here.

Iranian presidential election results shocked all the Iranians that took part in the rallies and voted for the reformist president Mousavi. The shocking results even show that the reformist candidates didn’t even win the Vote in their cities which has never happened before. Ahmadinejad and his revolutionary guard showed finger to all of Iranians who [...]

Finally we can call him president Obama. The first 100 days will not be easy for him as there are a lot of challenges on the way. Amnesty international in a campaign called “100 days”, is asking Obama to meet the challenge and take concrete steps to counter terror with justice in his first 100 [...]

Obama Won…. the best way to put how many people including non-Americans feel, is how RickB did, so I post the same video:

Today is the US election day, I keep my fingers crossed for Obama. To all youth voters PLease Don’t blow this for us!

“It is not that John McCain doesn’t care what is going on in the lives of Americans, I think he doesn’t know. He defines middle class as someone making under $5 million a year…” Obama said in his historic acceptance of the US presidential nomination. Watch the whole video of Obama accepting the nomination here.