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admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:38:08 +0000

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The little dictator Sworn in

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:22:31 +0000

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 in Moussavi’s reformist presidential campaign and the candidate’s Web site, Ghalam News, has been arrested.

Red Carpet, By Mana Neyestani

Gibbs said yesterday that the white house will recognize Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president. He calls the clashes a “debate”, in What kind of debate people disappear and then turn up to be DEAD? Does Mr. Obama’s Change, mean he’ll get involved with a little dictator (knowing what he’s done to his people)?

Ahmadinejad is not my elected president

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:57:16 +0000

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.

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers about the Presidential election and the subsequent events

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:18:40 +0000

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 and that they are not detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam.”

2) We consider the violations in the presidential election, and their sad consequences a big blow to the democratic principles of the Islamic Republic regime, and observing the mounting evidence of fraud presented by the candidates and others, we believe that election fraud is obvious and we ask for a new election.

3) Actions such as deporting foreign reporters, arresting local journalists, censorship of the news and misrepresenting the facts, cutting off the SMS network and filtering of the internet cannot silence the voices of Iranian people as no darkness and suffocation can go on forever. We invite the Iranian government to honest and friendly interaction with its people and we hope to witness the narrowing of the huge gap between people and the government.

 A part of the large community of Iranian bloggers 
June 26, 2009

Some News from Iran

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:37:34 +0000

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 hostles a few nights ago.
Internet networks are completely down, foreign journalists are not allowed to leave their hotel. Meanwhile the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard (Sepah) said it will prosecute Web sites it accuses of inciting riots, adding to a ban on foreign media reporting on the protests and a block on Internet site such as Facebook or Twitter.

You can watch some pictures here (Pictures of Tehran riots on Picasa). Be warned shocking pictures.

Tehran’s demonstrations

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:58:01 +0000

An image showing a girl giving a flower to the riot police during yesterdays massive demonstration.

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 attacked their building and set fired to it resulting in the militia’s shooting at people resulting in at least 7 deaths. You can see in this video (Channel 4 report) from the shooting (Be warned-schocking images). Another video came out later from people present at the scene which shows the action that resulted in the shootings. (watch the other video here).
The demonstration has been so massive that even the pro-government media had to report it on their 8:30 news.

Take a look at Andrew Sullivan’s coverage from the situation in Iran. Andrew is writing in Green (color of Mousavi’s campaign) in solidarity with demonstrators. If you have a facebook acccount and want to show solidarity to Iranian’s you can use the following logo. Most of us Iranians are using a very similar logo saying where is our vote.

Iranian election: violence against protestors

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:11:23 +0000

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.

Where is our Vote?

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0000

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 voted for change.

The capital and big cities are full of protestors and all many of us are wishing is not to have an Iranian version of Tiananmen massacre.
Watch Christian Amanpours report from Tehran: