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With riot police out in force on the streets of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Wednesday and began a second term as Iran’s president.
Meanwhile more and more arrests and “confessions” are on the way as yesterday, Mir Hamid Hassanzadeh, who now is an advisor to the general manager of ISNA, was involved [...]

Tomorrow I’m going to Dusseldorf to take part in United for Iran Rally. I’ll carry signs to shout again: Ahmadinejad is not my elected president.
I’ve written the title to take part in the suggestion by my friend Arash to make a google bomb.

1) We, a group of Iranian bloggers, strongly condemn the violent and repressive confrontation of Iranian government against Iranian people’s legitimate and peaceful demonstrations and ask government officials to comply with Article 27 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution which emphasizes “Public gatherings and marches may be freely held, provided arms are not carried [...]

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 [...]