General consensus is that Moussavi is as bad a thug but as A-jad but he’s a thug who is riding the wake of an important movement straight from the people. Michael Totten said today (and I agree) that this could potentially be the biggest historical event for regime change since the Berlin wall came down.
There have been terrabyte gobs of information spent on this subject and you may have missed a thing or two. Here’s a quick rundown of the best of from the last 72 hours.
- Boston Globe brings up the most striking (and shocking) photos from the clash in Iran
- BBC has another set here.
- Juan Cole’s initial assessment of fraud still stands
- 538 breaks down the local election numbers and shows fraud, fraud, fraud
- These are some of the most Retweeted YouTubes mostly showing violence, more violence, yet more violence, and crowds
- Check out Jim Sciutto from ABC, one of the few MSM on the scene
- This video shows a crowd of people taking on the secret police
- Ben Domenech makes some excellent points here on Saturday
- Tehran Bureau has some great updates on their website and Twitter
- Entertaining video detailing why the election was fraudulent
- Here’s a crazy pic on the plainclothes thugs
- After much dispute as to whether the Monday rally was on or not this video surfaced showing thousands of protesters
- Some excellent raw footage of the rally and the threats here
The twitter hashtag #iranelection has been clocking thousands of tweets per hour. Here’s what you may have missed:
- Twitter has been the medium of choice mostly because Internet connections are so slow and unreliable. (2kbps) which is just enough to get a 140 tweet off
- @ev, founder of Twitter, has been validating the authenticity of twitterers within Iran himself
- Blogs have posted a list of twitterers and aggregate feeds to help keep people abreast
- The govt has been shutting down Internet connections fast. Folks across the world are providing ssh tunnels and proxy servers for Iranians to use.
- Twitter has been the seedbed of some mischief as well giving out websites for people to take down the Khomeni, A-jad, and news media sites
- There are about a dozen reliable twitterers out of Tehran right now giving on the ground information. Some of it reliable, some of it questionable all of it intense and engaging
- The twitpics have been coming fast and furious.
- Twitter just changed a scheduled server outage to accomadate the Iranian Tweeters
Stay tuned for more
Moe Lane
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
two Iranian sources that I have been following
David Hinz (Diary) Monday, June 15th at 9:12PM EST (link)are excellent:
@TehranBureau
@Change_for_Iran
When the internet is working tehranbureau.com has some amazing stuff
And of course, Michael Totten is the best
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
The sit in at Gnome threat should get more attention
mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, June 15th at 9:55PM EST (link)That was really a big deal what M threatened because of the location. I don’t know why the media isn’t going on about that action. I don’t know what to compare it to here but it’s an important place there for religion and politics and not just a cemetary like we think of them here. When he did that he really showed leadership and standing up and it was to be a civil demostration too. It’s just amazing what he did.
good article (Iran)
mom2oneson (Diary) Tuesday, June 16th at 11:52AM EST (link)http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599190476400
Of course people would show up en masse. They know who they voted for,” said 44-year-old Ahmad, who pulled out his wallet to show an ID to prove that he was a war veteran. “I was on the war front for eight years. This is not what we had a revolution for, so that they would lie to us.”