LIVE REPORT: from today demonstration 6/22 -- (part4)

I Ran Hubbard · Jun 21, 2009

Continuation of news thread -- http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-c...ve-report-today-demonstration-6-21-part3.html

Much thanks to those contributing and keeping this brief and to the point. Please go other threads to share ten paragraphs on your opinion on foreign policies.

NeverGiveUp · Jun 21, 2009

Boycott Nokia Cellphones

Fed contractor, cell phone maker sold spy system to Iran - Washington Times

Visionary · Jun 21, 2009

niacINsight

State-run TV in Iran is showing demonstrations in other countries such as the US, however, with some serious editing. They are not broadcasting the majority of people standing and shouting in solidarity with people in Iran. Rather, they show images of demonstrators who shout, Death to the Islamic Republic, while they hold pre-1979 Iranian flags, which have come to symbolize the monarchy. Even worse than the monarchists, they show rallies organized by the Peoples Mujahedeen of Iran, now known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI, MKO, MEK, or PMOI), which is on the State Departments list of foreign terrorist organizations for committing fatal terrorist attacks around the world.

State run TV goes on to make statements along the lines of, These are the organizations which are supporting the rioters and terrorists that fill the streets of Tehran.

NeverGiveUp · Jun 21, 2009

Visionary;13319 said:

niacINsight

Fortunate that Youtube and Twitter exist then.

Anyone watching from Iran (and I suspect that number is high), can see our solidarity in many ways.

I hope...

I Ran Hubbard · Jun 21, 2009

From NIAC (D.C.) blog.
niacINsight

11:03 pm: Thinking up new ways to protest.

According to Kalemeh News [Persian], people are finding creative ways to protest since they have not been able to get permits for peaceful demonstrations. People have decided to turn on their [automobile] headlights on Monday from 5pm to 6pm. It seems like this new method of protest is a result of unprecedented restrictions and harsh treatment of the people by the armed forces and militias.

Unregistered · Jun 21, 2009

The Field: Iranian Bus Workers Join the Resistance

Iran bus workers on strike.

[MODEDIT: old news is old]

I Ran Hubbard · Jun 21, 2009

From Nico:
Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising

12:46 AM ET -- State radio: 457 arrested. "Iranian state radio said Monday that 457 people were arrested in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tehran that took place late Saturday. The arrests were made around the Iranian capital's Azadi square, the radio report said, quoting the police."

Unregistered · Jun 21, 2009

Unregistered;13373 said:

The Field: Iranian Bus Workers Join the Resistance

Iran bus workers on strike.

nvm, I just discovered that that is pretty old news. Sorry.

Unregistered · Jun 21, 2009

are there any protests today?

Unregistered · Jun 21, 2009

Unregistered;13392 said:

are there any protests today?

Massive disinformation planned. Along with general strike.

Hamed · Jun 21, 2009

Plz join the facebook group to boycott Nokia Siemens

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Unregistered · Jun 21, 2009

Unregistered;13396 said:

Massive disinformation planned. Along with general strike.

What fine info here.
I note that this thread (the three before this one) were almost the basis of this news report:
My Way News - Struggle among Iran's clerics bursts into the open
But I got it here so much sooner.
Thank you brave souls.
Nan in So Calif.

dom_perignon · Jun 22, 2009

Map of what happends the last days: 20 June 2009 Tehran Election Protests - Google Maps

dom_perignon · Jun 22, 2009

Guardian Council: Over 100% voted in 50 cities Guardian Council: Over 100% voted in 50 cities

dom_perignon · Jun 22, 2009

From Twitter: RT: Today Monday 16:00 at 7 Tir Sq. peaceful mourning for #Neda #iranelection Iranians pass on to all friends and family

JoeRodge · Jun 22, 2009

dom_perignon;13625 said:

From Twitter: RT: Today Monday 16:00 at 7 Tir Sq. peaceful mourning for #Neda #iranelection Iranians pass on to all friends and family

Please watch what you grab from twitter. It is not a reliable site anymore. You could be sending people into a trap.

nildor · Jun 22, 2009

Guardian's live report for today
Iran in crisis: live - 22 June 2009 | News | guardian.co.uk

Unregistered · Jun 22, 2009

can anyone translate this?

??????? ???? : ?????:????? ??? ?? ??????? ???????? ?????? ???

rumors that it contains admission over 100% possible voter turn out, as described by a British think and reported from various sources. tried google translate and didnt have any luck understanding it.

JoeRodge · Jun 22, 2009

Unregistered;13679 said:

can anyone translate this?

??????? ???? : ?????:????? ??? ?? ??????? ???????? ?????? ???

rumors that it contains admission over 100% possible voter turn out, as described by a British think and reported from various sources. tried google translate and didnt have any luck understanding it.

This has already been posted. This is from yesterday?

from-iran · Jun 22, 2009

tnx guys for ur support

Karubi also said ....
2day @4 @ 7tir tehran

JoeRodge · Jun 22, 2009

from-iran;13732 said:

Karubi also said ....
2day @4 @ 7tir tehran

I love reading your posts. Keep up the good fight!

EastSideRambler · Jun 22, 2009

BBC NEWS | Middle East | West 'seeks Iran disintegration'

'Contacting the enemy'

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi accused Western governments of explicitly backing violent protests aimed at undermining the stability of Iran's Islamic Republic.

"Spreading anarchy and vandalism by Western powers and also Western media... these are not at all accepted," he said.

He said the West was acting in an "anti-democratic" manner, instead praising Iran's commitment to democracy and stressing once again that the results of the presidential election were unimpeachable.

Iran has strongly criticised the US and UK governments in recent days, and Mr Qashqavi reserved special scorn for the BBC and for the Voice of America network, which he called "government channels".

The BBC and other foreign media have been reporting from Iran under severe restrictions for the past week. The BBC's permanent correspondent in Iran, Jon Leyne, was asked to leave the country on Sunday.

"They [the BBC and the VOA] are the mouthpiece of their government's public diplomacy," Mr Qashqavi said.

"They have two guidelines regarding Iran. One is to intensify ethnical and racial rifts within Iran and secondly to disintegrate the Iranian territories."

"Any contact with these channels, under any pretext or in any form, means contacting the enemy of the Iranian nation.

"How can they say they are unbiased when their TV channel is like a war headquarters and in fact they are blatantly commanding riots. Therefore their claims are absolutely wrong. Their governments have ratified decisions so that they can act in this way."

Witnesses said there were no rallies in the capital on Sunday, a day after 10 people were reported killed in clashes between police and protesters.

Meanwhile, Mr Mousavi, whose supporters make up most of the protesting crowds, urged them to continue their rallies.

"Protesting against lies and fraud is your right. In your protests continue to show restraint," a statement on his website said.

On Sunday, thousands of security officers were out on the streets but protesters stayed away.

Tough to win a propaganda war when the images and reports all condemn your side. But...that won't keep the current regime in Iran from trying.

EastSideRambler · Jun 22, 2009

Extended Tehran Weather forecast:

Monday
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. High: 86 F . Wind SSE 8 mph . Chance of precipitation 40% (water equivalent of 0.07 in).

Monday Night
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. Low: 73 F . Wind SE 6 mph . Chance of precipitation 40% (water equivalent of 0.09 in).

Tuesday
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. High: 86 F . Wind East 8 mph . Chance of precipitation 30% (water equivalent of 0.07 in).

Tuesday Night
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. Low: 71 F . Wind NNE 6 mph . Chance of precipitation 30% (water equivalent of 0.06 in).

Wednesday
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. High: 87 F . Wind light. Chance of precipitation 30% (water equivalent of 0.02 in).

Wednesday Night
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. Low: 69 F . Wind light. Chance of precipitation 30% (water equivalent of 0.07 in).

Thursday
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. High: 89 F . Wind light. Chance of precipitation 30% (water equivalent of 0.06 in).

Thursday Night
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. Low: 68 F . Wind light. Chance of precipitation 40% (water equivalent of 0.07 in). Heat Index: 84 F .

Friday
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. High: 87 F . Wind East 6 mph . Chance of precipitation 20% (water equivalent of 0.01 in). Heat Index: 80 F .

Friday Night
Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. Low: 68 F . Wind ESE 4 mph . Chance of precipitation 20% (trace amounts).

Could be a wet week in Tehran. Should hopefully provide some relief from the heat for those on the streets.

from-iran · Jun 22, 2009

tnx guys for ur support

tnx to u all ,
sometime ago people thought we were a wild n arrogant nation , bt now they get to know us , the real us, we are so thankful for ur help n support , n we wont n cant forget these moments , u stand up wit us ,n gave us an opportunity to be heard , n show the world wat they been ve done to us ,
tnk u , tnk u ,tnk u
time to go to 7tir
see u guys soon

JoeRodge · Jun 22, 2009

from-iran;13761 said:

tnx to all u ,
sometime ago people thought we were a wild n arrogant nation , bt now they get to know us , the real us, we are so thankful for ur help n support , n we wont n cant forget these moments , u stand up wit us ,n gave us an opportunity to be heard , n show the world wat they been ve done to us ,
tnk u , tnk u ,tnk u
time to go to 7tir
see u guys soon

GOOD LUCK FRIEND! MY prayers go with you!

EastSideRambler · Jun 22, 2009

Young woman describes beating at hands of paramilitary

Young woman describes beating at hands of paramilitary - CNN.com

Young woman describes beating at hands of paramilitary

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A 19-year-old woman who was wounded by Iranian paramilitary forces with clubs escaped with her camera and shared her photos with CNN -- after tricking a paramilitary soldier into thinking she had given him the images on a disk.

The woman -- whose identity is being withheld by CNN -- said Sunday that on the previous day "the streets were full of guards and policemen."

"They were hitting everyone, and everywhere was fire because of the tear gas they throw at us," she said.

She was walking to Freedom Square in Tehran with a group of fellow demonstrators, but the Basij -- voluntary paramilitary forces that answer to the government -- wouldn't let them get through, she said.

They warned the group to turn around. "They said, 'Just run, and don't even walk.' We were just running away -- and we were hit, of course," she said.

It was too crowded to flee quickly, she said. "I said, 'I can't run. How can I run? It's so crowded in here.'

"He hit me and he was twice [as big] as me -- he was so big. And I said, 'You want to hit me?' And he said, 'Yes' and then he hit me with a club."

She told CNN a Basij member hit her with a club, and then her foot was hit by a stone.

"Today I couldn't go out because my foot was injured and I couldn't run anymore. And I was sure: If I go out, I'm going to die. So I didn't go out today."

The group fought back by throwing stones at the soldiers, she said. "We had nothing to defend ourselves. Just the smallest stones we throw at them."

There were many women among the crowd of demonstrators trying to get to Freedom Square, she said. "We gave the boys the stones because we can't throw them so far. We gave them the stones, and we said the slogans."

The young woman said many in Iran think Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lying about the results of the June 12 election, in which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner with more than 62 percent of the vote.

"We don't care who is the president now," she said. "We had rather [opposition candidate Mir Hossein] Moussavi, but now when our leader says it was fair and we know that it's not, I think that it's about our country. We want the truth."

The young woman sent photos of Saturday's incident to CNN via iReport. iReport.com: Share images from Iran

At one point when she was in her car, a member of the Basij stopped her and tried to get her photos, she said. But she tricked him, giving him an empty memory card while keeping the one that held the images.

She said her father, after learning of all that had transpired, said to her, "I'm so lucky that you're alive."

Unregistered · Jun 22, 2009

be careful

from-iran;13761 said:

tnx to u all ,
sometime ago people thought we were a wild n arrogant nation , bt now they get to know us , the real us, we are so thankful for ur help n support , n we wont n cant forget these moments , u stand up wit us ,n gave us an opportunity to be heard , n show the world wat they been ve done to us ,
tnk u , tnk u ,tnk u
time to go to 7tir
see u guys soon

be careful, we'll think of you, sending you love and emotional support!

Unregistered · Jun 22, 2009

baghalizer;13865 said:

Yes the site is rating protesters out, and also you can get more info about it in this thread: http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-c...med-www-bultannews-com-outing-protesters.html

Thx, sorry for not having checked other topics

baghalizer · Jun 22, 2009

Please start twittering to Protesters to use masks. (even a simple cough mask) for not being identified in the pictures.
Todays protest is about 30 mins later at 16:30 local time. I must get ready to go.

EastSideRambler · Jun 22, 2009

Sunday: Updates on Iran’s Turmoil - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

Update | 4:20 p.m. Relatives of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani say all five members of his family, including his daughter, Faezeh Hashemi, have been released by Iranian authorities. As we noted this morning, state television said five members of the Rafsanjani family had been arrested on Saturday night.

Update | 4:32 p.m. On its Twitter feed, the Iranian-American Web site Tehran Bureau has posted comments received this morning from readers in Tehran:

A voice from central Tehran earlier this morning (Sunday 21 June):

[Translated] Things are so bad. They are massacring people here. Please tell Obama not to officially recognize Ahmadinjad. Hes not our real president. Hes a dictator. Please tell people that in Tehran theyre massacring people.

Theres nothing going on today. There was talk of something at 10 in the morning [Tehran time] at Enghelab [Square, presumably] but nothing happened. They had said [at the] UN [?] I dont know if it will take place or not. People are scared. They [officials] kill. THEY KILL.

A voice from central Tehran earlier this morning (Sunday 21 June):
If Obama moves to support the demonstration in strong terms, this camp will lose and Ahmadinejad will gain ground; also it is not good to make an American domestic issue from an Iranian domestic issue. Yesterday was brutal, but not as brutal we still do not know how many were killed, but from the set up of the riot police it is apparent that they want to keep people off street with the least casualty possible. This is not a praise, it is to say that government does not want to escalate things.

If there is no demonstration today it does not mean it is over. This is just the beginning. The focus is on having an election.

You must see the people, this is a people united, all groups and sections are out there, war veterans, old revolutionaries, housewives. The first girl I saw beaten yesterday was wearing a chador, this is not a western thing here, this is a domestic issue in which Iranian people have the right to demand a new election.

Update | 5:54 p.m. A citizen journalist in Tehran described the scene there on Sunday: Today the city seems calm but in some neighborhoods fighting was continuing. These nights at 10 oclock people go on their roofs and start to shot and say something like: God is great, death for dictatorship or something like this.

Reuters reports that gunfire was heard in northern Tehran, a bastion of support for Mir Hussein Moussavi, as people took to their rooftops on Sunday night. Mr. Moussavi, who wants the election results nullified, issued a new statement on his Web site on Sunday. He made no appeal for a new demonstration, but told his supporters that protesting dishonesty and deception is your right, according to a translation posted on tehranbroadcast.com

hangerhead · Jun 22, 2009

From BBC:
BREAKING NEWS:Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten to crush post-election protests

Iran Guards vow protest crackdown

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have threatened to crack down on any new street protests against the results of the country's presidential election.

In a statement, the guards vowed to react in a "revolutionary way" to suppress unauthorised demonstrations.

The Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite security force, have close ties to the country's supreme leader.

On Friday Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned protests, prompting street violence in which at least 10 people died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8112812.stm

Teachesl · Jun 22, 2009

Demonstrations in the U.S.

Is there any way of getting this information to the organizers in the U.S. about this?

etilinus · Jun 22, 2009

always to be confirmed (?!):

List of Embassies Accepting Injured – in Blue Eldercato's Blog

Useful Google Map: Embassies Accepting Injured in Iran

etilinus · Jun 22, 2009

always to be confirmed (?!):

List of Embassies Accepting Injured in Blue Eldercato's Blog

Useful Google Map: Embassies Accepting Injured in Iran

Unregistered · Jun 22, 2009

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Unregistered · Jun 22, 2009

"We cheated only in 50 cities"

DanX;13762 said:

سخنگوی شورای نگهبان پذیرفت: در 50شهر، تعداد رأی**ها بیش از 100درصد واجدان شرایط است
Gvmnt confessed: in 50 cities the number of votes are more than 100% of the eligible people.

..........................

"We cheated only in 50 cities"
In response to presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai, who argued that the number of voters exceeded the proportion of voters in 170 cities responded to the Guardian saying that Rezai was wrong and that the number of votes only exceeded the proportion of voters in 50 cities.

This he explained that the reason was that people often traveled or pendalde to other places chose to vote in a place other than where they are registered to vote.

Now, the Guardian Council to examine this and see if it would have played any role in the election.

This will be better and better ...

Unregistered · Jun 22, 2009

Polish Embassy

I received mail from Polish Embassy in Tehran that they have any request for help injured people

Jaymax · Jun 22, 2009

All tweets have been move to http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-current-events/1821-tweets.html. Thanks. All BultanNews related posts have been moved to this thread, which has been up for a while http://iran.whyweprotest.net/genera...med-www-bultannews-com-outing-protesters.html

DanX · Jun 22, 2009

Iran MP: Ground ready to legally pursue Mousavi for acting against national security

DanX · Jun 22, 2009

CONFIRMED: Riot police, brought from other cities, have been settled in Shiroudi stadium south of 7 tir square

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