Iranians Protest Election of Ahmadinejad
posted by: Tracy Viselli 239 days ago
Sunday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, joined by thousands of supporters, held a rally celebrating his presidential victory over Hossein Mousavi , but through sporadic news escaping through the state's communication blackout, protests continue throughout the country. Below are the highlights of Iranian election coverage:
The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan and Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post have been providing regularly updated posts throughout the Iranian elections and the aftermath. Both are posting video, Twitter updates, and other kinds of non-standard news sources.
Twitter has finally emerged as a crucial news source throughout the Iranian election in the U.S. thanks to the lack of live weekend coverage by the cable news networks CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Here are some of the accounts to follow: @iranelection09, @iranelection, @tehranbureau, @stopahmadi, @Change_for_Iran, and @iranriggedelect. Pitney posted a list of Iranians on Twitter.
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Here are some of the best videos coming out of Iran since Saturday:
Filling the night with chants of protest
CNN's report on Saturday
Saturday protest in Tehran
Motorcycle policeman is protected by protesters after his was pushed from his motorcycle
Protested in Tehran destroying a police motorcycle
Iran Tonight, they are shouting "Death to the Dictator" according to Andrew Sullivan
The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan and Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post have been providing regularly updated posts throughout the Iranian elections and the aftermath. Both are posting video, Twitter updates, and other kinds of non-standard news sources.
Twitter has finally emerged as a crucial news source throughout the Iranian election in the U.S. thanks to the lack of live weekend coverage by the cable news networks CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Here are some of the accounts to follow: @iranelection09, @iranelection, @tehranbureau, @stopahmadi, @Change_for_Iran, and @iranriggedelect. Pitney posted a list of Iranians on Twitter.
SIGN the Care2 Where Is My Vote Petition in support of the Iranian protesters!
If you're on Twitter, change you're avatar to a green square in solidarity with Iranian protesters (you can still it from me).
Here are some of the best videos coming out of Iran since Saturday:
Filling the night with chants of protest
CNN's report on Saturday
Saturday protest in Tehran
Motorcycle policeman is protected by protesters after his was pushed from his motorcycle
Protested in Tehran destroying a police motorcycle
Iran Tonight, they are shouting "Death to the Dictator" according to Andrew Sullivan
Read more: protest, president, iran, politics, elections, ahmadinejad, mousavi
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As long as the ayatollahs are in charge, protests won't change anything in Iran. Sad to say that protests will only result in an increase in political prisoners & more shootings of dissidents by the Iranian government.
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Issues debated in this episode, one of he many in Iran's rather turbulent recent history, are democracy, freedom of expression, modernisation and the kind of religion that Iranian society wants.
I believe all Iranians are good Muslims, by and large.
I also believe that, in the name of Islam and its so called values, the selfish clergy has deviated from the holy Quran; it has not changed despite the injunction of 'Ittjehad' that Islam, in the spirit of time and evolution of society, must change. The clergy has refused to change because it fears loosing its absolute control over Iranians' lives.
The Mullahs seem to consider democracy, freedom (from clergy), evolution without decadence of various human values and individual choice (as opposed to clergy's diktat) as sinful. How else would one explain justification of the oppression unleashed by the government in the face of informed opposition. Imagine Ayatollah Khameini ordering a recount but declaring in advance that 'though a recount has been ordered, it will not change the result of the election'.
I believe the Iranians wish to be allowed choice rather than being told who and what to choose; in this process, they protested peacefully and the State apparatus responded with all the force at its command to suppress dissent as well as informed and genuine opposition.
My heart goes out to our brave Iranians brothers and sisters who have valiantly tried to salvage democracy from the ruins created by the clergy's dic
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Vox Pupuli Vox Dei....
i think its democratic proses...give some space to oposition...and stop all the human rape....
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It's not just happening in Iran either. People need to believe it's possible.
"The most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"
I believe they can do it. I'm sorry to say it will and has cost lives - but until someone can explain to me, how else to deal with dictatorships, that's the way it will be - because the brainwashed protectors of the state with fight and kill to defend their rule, as they have shown. I don't know how the Iranian people can get through to them.
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Dear Sahar, change is happening. People are not afraid of dictator anymore... it will take time, but Iran is changing!
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I hope we will change and we will make it green.
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Dear Alison, I can not believe what you are writing down here! Ahmadinejas, the man who send his guard to beat the students in their campus, shooting on them, throwing them in jail and tortures them... is a good man???
I am shocked to see how few you people know about the supression in Iran. My people are giving their lives/blood for just a little bit freedom and you say Ahmadinejad is the best for Iran????
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It is actually 11 (eleven)million votes. Is it possible to rig by such a margin? It is true that the opposition has got support in Iran, but those supporters for the present government are more.
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The Protests will not change anything. Tell me, how on eatrh can elections be rigged by 1 million votes. Honestly, the USA and the West do not like certain governments on some countries and they therefore do everything they can to distabilise those countries. It is not the petitions signed by non-Iranians that will pull down a democratically elected president in Iran. It is upto the people of Iran to come up with their own solutions. Americans and Westerners you interfere too much in the internal affairs of sovereign states, and you want to preach your own democracy to the rest of the world. This sickens a lot.
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I don't think it is our place to interfere in Iran's internal affairs.
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