Tuesday, June 16, 2009

From Tehran

All the eyes of the world now is heading towards the Iranian capital to see whether today will be a turning point in the history of the Islamic republic or not.
Mousavi has called his supporters to stay in streets but avoid violence , of course it is hard to avoid violence. I just want to remind those who are speaking about the uncivilized supporters of Mousavi that the Iranian Islamic revolution saw violence in the streets too.It seems that the young rebels of the Iranian universities that put an end to the rule of the Shah were uncivilized too !!
Of course it is OK to attack Mousavi's supporters as vandals and agents
For the 3rd day the communication with the outside world is not easy in Iran , the mobile phones are down , the TV channels offices from abroad are closed and their reporters are harassed.
The facebook and youtube are still blocked , Iranians have become masters in proxy.
BY the way I read a comment by Reza Aslan I should highlight it :
Iranians are scared of becoming Egypt where military is in background running the show
Wow we became a role model in the Middle East !! This is for Mubarak and his regime, of course his statement is not true because the army does not rule anymore , it is the Mubarak dynasty protected and supported by police and army.
I recommend that you check the following links from blogs and twitters from Iran :

I update this post through the day
Update #1 :
  • BBC reports Muosavi supporters rally canceled because police authorized to use live amo
  • Mousavi couldn't get the permission for rally. He said "the rally is delayed and will be rescheduled."
  • Mousavi & Karoubi will be on the way to the protest to ask people to remain calm
  • Opposition leader Mousavi will attend today's banned demonstration in Tehran "It seems there will be one after all"
Updates #2 : 
 
  • There are talks that there is revolt in some province in Iran.
  • Many more reformists have been arrested today
  • The Rally will go ahead in 4 PM Tehran Local time
  • The rally will move from  Enqelab Sq. to Azadi Sq
  • Ironically Enqelab means in Arabic coup !! 
Update No.3 : 
  • Some are saying on twitter that Mousavi spoke to the people from a cars rooftop; announced his readiness to stand again in another election but there is not confirmation yet, I will search for more info and photos
  • Here are the photos coming to you 
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Mousavi greeting his followers on the roof top of car
  • Video from the rally from BBC Farsi 

  • From CNN and think progressive , Mousavi's appearance
  • AP photographer sees pro-government militia fire at opposition protesters, killing at least 1. If this is real , this may be the start of real revolution. Several channels like France 24 are reporting that there are shootings. Some tweets reporting that 3 pro-Mousavi supporters were killed.
  • Ahmadinajed has canceled his trip to Moscow,it is no time for sure , he knows regardless of what he claims how critical the situation is. 
  • Khamini may have to give up on Ahmadinajed in order to keep the Islamic Republic in order.
  • Our Arab official media is between two fires : They are happy that Ahmadinajed is facing hard time but on the other hand they can't open their mouths and criticize the Iranian elections and support Mousavi because their regimes are even much worse than Ahmadinajed when it comes to cheating in elections and oppressing the opponents.
Updates No.3

  • There are rumors on twitter that 11 were killed today in the rally
  • A doctor in a hospital at Hazrate Rasool hospital confirmed 7 people killed in Azadi square where the shooting is reported.
  • Here is a terrible photo from the square, it is obvious that someone was killed.
  • Madyar has a collection of photos on Twitpic ,you will find that some of the photos are from Esfehan too not only from Tehran
Updates No#4 : "16/6"
  • It turned out that 6 people from Mousavi's supporters will last night in the rally.
  • Today there will be another rally but Mousavi will not attend it.
  • Mousavi already has called for a strike across Iran today.
  • Ahmadinejad is going Moscow after all !!
  • #Iranelection hash tag in twitter has been blocked in Iran.
  • Ahmadinajed supporters are going to have a demonstration Today at 3pm at  Vali-e Asr Sq where some Mousavi supporters will do the same at 5pm , I do not know in the same square or not but violence is widely expected.
  • Yesterday there was an Iranian protest in front of the Iranian embassy in Dubai , Dubai has the largest Iranian communities in the Arab world.Check out the pictures.
  • Of course you may have known from yesterday that very important changes have happened , Khameini under the pressure of the protests has ordered ordering an examination into the fraud allegations.
  • He asked the Guardian council which made up of experts and clerics in Sharia to study the claims of Mousavi and his supporters. 
  • Robert Fisk speaks about yesterday in Tehran .
  • The Iranian government is trying to spread false news on the internet on twitter using the same hash tags,so please be careful when you spread the news.
  • Twitter in the last couple of days has reached to another level in media , last night the administration of twitter decided to delay the maintenance in order to keep one of the main means of communication in Iran open.
  • I read the Obama's comments about Iran were surprising to me seriously I did not expect him to say
I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football
 and in the end of his comments
And particularly to the youth of Iran, I want them to know that we in the United States do not want to make any decisions for the Iranians, but we do believe that the Iranian people and their voices should be heard and respected.
 So the Americans know very well they can interfere for fear the conservatives win sympathy and the reformists are discredited. Seriously I am stunned.
  •  Mohammad Ali Abtahi ; reformist cleric,former vice president and blogger also has been arrested today.
  • Here is Reza Aslan's essay where he fears that Iran turns in to Egypt which I mentioned before


    There is a genuine fear among these groups that Iran is beginning to resemble Egypt or Pakistan, countries in which the military controls the apparatus of government.
  • Iran's election authority "Guardian council" agrees to recount votes in disputed presidential election, government-funded Press TV says.
  • Guardian council stated that the results of elections are provisional !!!
  • Ali Larijani the speaker of the Iranian parliament says that the ministry of interior holds the responsibility of what the violence that happened yesterday in the rally.
  • According to BBC 120 University professors from Tehran University have resigned in objection on the elections results !! "Wow imagine something like this happens in Egypt !!"
  • Here is the Mir-Hossein Mouasavi's news website hosted in Google sites ,of course it is in Farsi.
  • There will be a Press Conference in 15:30 Tehran local time in Tehran at Sadr MotrWay,Kave Shomali Blvd,Roshanayi St,Bahar Shomali St.Num.9"I received the tweet, the reporters there should act accordingly"

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