[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great Forum Index [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great
Views expressed here are not necessarily the views & opinions of ActivistChat.com. Comments are unmoderated. Abusive remarks may be deleted. ActivistChat.com retains the rights to all content/IP info in in this forum and may re-post content elsewhere.
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

ActivistChat: Iran BOYCOTT Mullahs Election = FREEDOM
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4 ... 12, 13, 14  Next
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great Forum Index -> News Briefs & Discussion
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Message Of Support To Twitter Reply with quote

cyrus wrote:
Ambassador Hakimi wrote:

The Manager of TWITTER,

Thank you from the bottom of all the Iranian people’s heart, whom you are helping their desperate vice to be heard all over the world.

We shall never forget your assistance & effort.

Yours,

H. Hakimi,
Oslo,
Norway


Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:12 pm    Post subject: CNN, FOX News Turn Blind Eye to Uprising in Iran Reply with quote

Ambassador Hakimi wrote:

Dr. Paul L. Williams
CNN, FOX News Turn Blind Eye to Uprising in Iran
June 16, 2009

What’s taking place in Iran ?



For an answer, don’t turn to CNN or FOX News and don’t listen to White House officials. Millions have taken to the streets to protest the June 12 rigged election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.



The University of Tehran has been ransacked. Several protestors have been killed and thousands have been injured. It is the greatest popular uprising that the 21st Century has witnessed. And yet, to find fair and balanced coverage of the momentous event, one had to turn to foreign news outlets.



Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, opted to whitewash the turmoil in her native country, prompting thousands on Twitter to voice their outrage.



“Why aren’t you covering this with everything you’ve got?” Steve LaBate, an Atlanta resident, asked CNN on Twitter.



While LaBate and others were venting their frustration, CNN was showing a repeat of Larry King’s interview with the stars of the “American Chopper” show.



Part of the reason for the CNN and FOX black-out is explained by the fact that a good chunk of AOL Time Warner (parent company of CNN) and NewsCorp (parent company of FOX News) is owned by Prince Alwaleed Ibn Talal the Saudi billionaire. For this reason, the Saudis serve as a filter for events in the Middle East that are viewed by American and Canadian audiences. (They all want to cover their dirty ass to our expenses- Hashem)



More difficult to explain is the suppressed reaction from White House officials. While blood was being spilled in the streets of Tehran , Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide.”



Understatement, to say the least.



Equally bizarre is the statement from White House spokesman Robert Gibbs that the administration remains “impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm that this election generated, particularly among young Iranians.”



Not a word about the turmoil in the streets or the ransacking of the university.



Compounding the weirdness are the comments, which were made by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on NBC’s “Meet the Press: “I have doubts, but withhold comment.”


Doublespeak has never been stated more clearly.



Meanwhile, the Iranian authorities are continuing a crackdown on journalists and information that began after the announcement of the disputed presidential election results. Journalists are still being arrested and more censorship measures have been adopted as President Ahmadinejad’s allies try to suppress media coverage of fraud allegations.



“Independent sources of news and information find it very hard to make their voice heard now in Iran because of the censorship,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The authorities are tightening their grip on all news media and means of communication that could be used to dispute Ahmadinejad reelection ‘victory’. They are doing everything possible to limit coverage of the consequences of the election fraud.”


But let’s not romanticize Ahmadinejad’s opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi as a champion of religious tolerance and western civilization. While Mousavi calls for the creation of non-government TV networks and the elimination of the country’s Moral Police, he calls the United States “the Great Satan,” who must be encountered with “iron fists”; calls for the assassination of novelist Salmon Rushdie; and labels Israel “a cancerous tumor that must be removed.” But, in recent appearances, Mousavi has condemned the killing of Jews in the Holocaust -- a most liberal position for an Islamist.



For more information, stay tuned.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:04 pm    Post subject: FREE Iran Shades Of Green Reply with quote

Cyrus The Great, Babak Khoramdin, Their Daughters and Sons Shades Of Green
In Iran's Past 7000 Years History and Long Before Islamist Invasion of Our Motherland Are Shown Below
That One Day In Near Future In A Fair and Free Referendum Will Be Decided By All The Freedom-loving Iranian People
FREE Iran ActivistChat 7009




http://twitpic.com/7lair


Last edited by cyrus on Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:57 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:14 am    Post subject: Our beloved country needs us more than ever Reply with quote

Our beloved country needs us more than ever
goyzanbila wrote:

Dear Iranians,

our country and country mean are in grave danger. The regime is tightening the noose hour by the hour as evidenced by media balck outs and transport of Hizbullah and Hamas Militia dressed in Iranian Riot Police Uniforms ready to shoot without any hesitation supported by Baseej militias.

Mullahs apologists (Trita Parsi, Kaveh Afrasiab and Reza Aslan) were busy defending Mullahs on FOX, CNN, MSNBC, without any leadership/voice to represent our side.

Absence of any reaction from Obama due to his naiveté and lack of knowledge of the Islamic Republic and the Middle East (Jimmy Cater revisited), I had no choice but to call on Republicans and plead our case. I was very pleased to see them react and criticize President Obama for his lack of leadership and silence tonight on various TV stations.

Below are the brave and honorable republicans who openly expressed their support and have criticize President Obama and the State department for their indifference and silence.

I strongly and urgently urge you to call their offices and ask to speak to a live person and ask for their support, before it is too late.


I contacted Mike Pence and read him the following:
Honorable Mike Pence, a horrible disaster is in the making in Iran by the mullahs of Iran supported by Hizbullah and Hamas terrorists dressed in police uniforms ready to kill absent foreign media and left to President Obama and the State Department to remain silent. Iran had been a reliable ally of the United Stated, Iranians love Americans and what Americ stands for. They cannot fight this battle alone. Please help and prevent this human catastrophy from taking place.
Please do the right thing.


Honorable Mike Pence contact info

Washington DC
1431 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3021 office
(202) 225-3382 fax
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
blank



Joined: 26 Feb 2004
Posts: 1672

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEsceS0v5fQ&feature=email
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:30 pm    Post subject: Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN Reply with quote

Dear Blank,
Thank you for posting this Interview, be awre those who don't do anything and elements of Islamist thugs in the regime are saying where is HM Prince Cyrus Pahlavi?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqXWGCxEfgI

blank wrote:
Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEsceS0v5fQ&feature=email


Please post more often.
Regards,
Cyrus
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
blank



Joined: 26 Feb 2004
Posts: 1672

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN Reply with quote

cyrus wrote:
Dear Blank,
Thank you for posting this Interview, be awre those who don't do anything and elements of Islamist thugs in the regime are saying where is HM Prince Cyrus Pahlavi?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqXWGCxEfgI

blank wrote:
Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEsceS0v5fQ&feature=email


Please post more often.
Regards,
Cyrus


Dear Cyrus:
Unfortunately, the media's concentration is on mullah's lobbyists; the usuals, Reza Aslan, Trita Parsi, Valireza Nasr, Afrasiabi etc... I have been e-mailing Fox, & CNN asking them why they don't interview the Prince RP who has many connections within Iran and knows what is going on? US media has its own agenda.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN Reply with quote

blank wrote:
cyrus wrote:
Dear Blank,
Thank you for posting this Interview, be awre those who don't do anything and elements of Islamist thugs in the regime are saying where is HM Prince Cyrus Pahlavi?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqXWGCxEfgI

blank wrote:
Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEsceS0v5fQ&feature=email


Please post more often.
Regards,
Cyrus


Dear Cyrus:
Unfortunately, the media's concentration is on mullah's lobbyists; the usuals, Reza Aslan, Trita Parsi, Valireza Nasr, Afrasiabi etc... I have been e-mailing Fox, & CNN asking them why they don't interview the Prince RP who has many connections within Iran and knows what is going on? US media has its own agenda.


Dear Blank,
Because the USA Foreign Policy is supporting to appease Islam & Islamists and these Guys are working within this framework.
The biggest problem that the State Dept is facing How can they support appeasing Islamists Terror Masters at the same time promote Human Rights and Free Society ...
Regards,
Cyrus
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:20 pm    Post subject: Nazanin Afshin-Jam Open Letter Persian Translation Reply with quote

Nazanin Afshin-Jam wrote:



نازنین افشین جم

۱۶ ژوئن ۲۰۰۹

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

به همیهنانم، مردان و زنان دلیر ایران، که در این چند روز گذشته انرژی و روحیه خویش را که در این رژیم سرکوبگر و غیر دمکراتیک در این ۳۰ سال گذشته سرکوب شده بود بطغیان در آوردید.

عاشقانه دوستتان داریم. شما را ستایش و حمایت می‌کنیم.

آه ما ترک میهن کرده‌ها چقدر آرزو داشتیم که در این برهه حساس تاریخی‌ در کنارتان می‌بودیم.

خواهش می‌کنیم که این نیروی متحرک را همراه با نافرمانی مدنی بدور از خشونت همچنان ادامه دهید. این به مانند گوله برفیست در سراشیبی برفی که هرچه پیش میرود با جذب برف‌ها در مسیرش بزرگتر و غیر قابل اجتناب تر میگردد که کسی‌ را جلو دارش نیست.

چشم جهانیان به شما دوخته شده تمامی‌ گامهایتان را ناظر و از شما حمایت میکنند. رهبران جهان ناظر هستند که کشوری خواستار این است که آمال و آرزوهای مردم ایران براورده شود. آنها به سادگی‌ مایلند که با دیدن انبوه جمعیت دریابند که شما خواستار تغیرات و رفرم میباشید. آنها نیز در کنار شما خواهند بود.

ما این بار این فرصت را داریم که به عنوان پسران و دختران آزادیخواه کورش بزرگ سرنوشت خویش را در دست بگیریم. اکنون این فرصتی است برای ما که این حکومت دین سالار را به زمین بکشیم و برای برقراری دمکراسی قیام کنیم تأ فرزندان ما از ثمرات آزادی در آن لذت ببرند. آزادی، برابری و حکومت قانون، جدایی‌ دین از کشور و قوانین کشوری همگام با قوانین جهانی‌ حقوق بشر.

ما مبارزات خیابانی شما را میبینیم، ما شورو هیجان و دردو رنج شما را حس می‌کنیم، ما بوی ترس و وحشت را در اقلیت حاکم در مشام خویش داریم، ما فریاد‌های شما را برای تغییرات اساسی‌ میشنویم، ما از خود گذشتگی‌های شما را با تمام وجود لمس می‌کنیم و آرزو داریم که مزه پیروزی رادر کنار شما بعنوان یک فامیل در کشور زیبایمان بچشیم.

بیایید که ما میتوانیم اقیانوسی شویم برای تغییرات و این آتش بی‌ عدالتی‌ها را با آن خاموش کنیم.

با همبستگی‌ و عزمی راسخ.

نازنین

من این سروده خویش موزیک (Some day) (یک روز) را به شما تقدیم می‌کنم.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkSmpKkfdI

For more information, visit www.nazanin.ca and www.stopchildexecutions.com For media inquiries, please contact info@nazanin.ca.




Nazanin Afshin-Jam
International Human Rights Activist
President and Co Founder of
Stop Child Executions
www.stopchildexecutions.com
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:30 pm    Post subject: A powerful note from a female medical student in Iran , tran Reply with quote

Ambassador Hakimi wrote:
This is harrowing! I copied this from one of the posts on The Huffington Post



6:03 PM ET -- "What I have witnessed."
A powerful note from a female medical student in Iran , translated from Farsi by a trusty reader.



Hello,
It's painful to watch what's happening.
I don't want anything to do with what has been said this far, as I neither have the strength nor the resilience to face all these unfathomable events.
I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There was chaos last night at the trauma section in one of our main hospitals. Although by decree, all riot-related injuries were supposed to be sent to military hospitals, all other hospitals were filled to the rim. Last night, nine people died at our hospital and another 28 had gunshot wounds. All hospital employees were crying till dawn. They (government) removed the dead bodies on back of trucks, before we were even able to get their names or other information. What can you even say to the people who don't even respect the dead. No one was allowed to speak to the wounded or get any information from them. This morning the faculty and the students protested by gathering at the lobby of the hospital where they were confronted by plain cloths anti-riot militia, who in turn closed off the hospital and imprisoned the staff. The extent of injuries are so grave, that despite being one of the most staffed emergency rooms, they've asked everyone to stay and help--I'm sure it will even be worst tonight.
What can anyone say in face of all these atrocities? What can you say to the family of the 13 year old boy who died from gunshots and whose dead body then disappeared?
This issue is not about cheating (election) anymore. This is not about stealing votes anymore. The issue is about a vast injustice inflected on the people. They've put a baton in the hand of every 13-14 year old to smash the faces of "the bunches who are less than dirt" (government is calling the people who are uprising dried-up torn and weeds) .
This is what sickens me from dealing with these issues. And from those who shut their eyes and close their ears and claim the riots are in opposition of the government and presidency!! No! The people's complaint is against the egregious injustices committed against the people.


cyrus wrote:
blank wrote:
cyrus wrote:
Dear Blank,
Thank you for posting this Interview, be awre those who don't do anything and elements of Islamist thugs in the regime are saying where is HM Prince Cyrus Pahlavi?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqXWGCxEfgI

blank wrote:
Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi interview with CNN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEsceS0v5fQ&feature=email


Please post more often.
Regards,
Cyrus


Dear Cyrus:
Unfortunately, the media's concentration is on mullah's lobbyists; the usuals, Reza Aslan, Trita Parsi, Valireza Nasr, Afrasiabi etc... I have been e-mailing Fox, & CNN asking them why they don't interview the Prince RP who has many connections within Iran and knows what is going on? US media has its own agenda.


Dear Blank,
Because the USA Foreign Policy is supporting to appease Islam & Islamists and these Guys are working within this framework.
The biggest problem that the State Dept is facing How can they support appeasing Islamists Terror Masters at the same time promote Human Rights and Free Society ...
Regards,
Cyrus


Dear Blank,
Now President Obama, State Dept, NIAC, Mr Reza Aslan should answer the above crimes against humanity by their Islamist appeasing Policy ...


Last edited by cyrus on Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:33 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
blank



Joined: 26 Feb 2004
Posts: 1672

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/iran_election_protest/2009/06/16/225615.html

www.newsmax.com

Ken Timmerman


Iranians Betrayed by Obama Administration

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:34 AM

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

More than 1.5 million protesters took to the streets of Tehran on Monday, marking the largest anti-regime demonstration Iran has seen since the final days of the shah in early 1979.

Seven people were killed by anti-riot police and roving bands of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters. Many of those supporters shielded their faces from surveillance videos that plainclothes police were shooting.

The protesters included some unlikely participants: 16 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers pledged to join the people�s movement, according to initial reports from Tehran. That signaled that the once-solid support of the guard corps for Ahmadinejad is beginning to crack.

The 16 officers were arrested after meeting secretly with top regular army officers on Monday night.

Many of the older men and women who took to the streets also demonstrated to bring down the shah 30 years ago, wrote Kaveh Mohseni, who publishes the French-language Web site, Iran-Resist.

Now, �people are waiting for international support,� Mohseni wrote.

That support wasn�t coming � at least not from President Barack Obama's administration in Washington.

"It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be. We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran," Obama said during the weekend.

He reiterated his long-held position that his administration wants to pursue a "tough, direct" dialogue with Tehran.

For many Iranians, Obama�s words were reminiscent of President Bill Clinton, who washed his hands when reporters asked him on July 9, 1999, whether the United States would come to the aid of Iranian students who were revolting in 18 cities across Iran.

America could do nothing, Clinton said � echoing almost exactly the taunt Ayatollah Khomeini had used repeatedly during the revolution.

The Obama administration�s quandary comes after it covertly threw its support behind the election campaign of former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Mousavi made his first appearance since the election at Monday�s rally.

Many in the crowd wore red scarves, a color favored by supporters of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former shah.
In two messages in Persian, widely circulated through the Internet during the weekend, Pahlavi called for nationwide nonviolent resistance to the regime � the first time he has called for an open revolt since leaving Iran in 1979.

I stand united with my fellow Iranians and call for the end of the Islamic Republic, or any other prefix in front of the name of my beloved Iran that indicates theocracy or any other form of disregard for democratic and human rights,� he said in one of the messages.

To some, this latest protest � and similar demonstrations in Shiraz, Kerman, Isfahan, Mashad, Tabriz, Rasht, and other major Iranian cities � shows that the regime finally has awakened Iran�s silent majority.

In Tabriz, there were reports that the city�s business district had shut down on Sunday as a sign of joining the anti-regime protests. Many of the protesters shouted, �Death to the dictator,� a slogan not heard in large crowds of demonstrators for decades.

�The protests are a natural expression of the frustration and insult that have been dealt by the regime,� said Roozbeh Farahanipour, a leader of the 1999 student revolt who now is the spokesman for the nationalist Marze por Gohar (Glorious Frontiers Party). �Iranians will tolerate a lot, as the last 30 years attest to, but being treated as stooges is where they draw the line.�

In Tehran on Monday, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported that former President Mohammad Khatami traveled to Cairo during Obama�s trip there and met with a �senior administration official� to discuss the upcoming Iranian election.

Although Ahmadinejad controls the news agency, Iranian observers believed the report was accurate, because it is hard to openly slander such a public person as a former president even in Iran.

Newsmax asked spokesmen for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to comment on the allegation but received no reply.

Earlier, there were reports that a senior administration official met with Mousavi�s campaign manager, Mehdi Khazali, in Dubai two weeks before the election to offer support.

In the days before the election, editors at the Voice of America�s Persian Service apologized to anti-regime Iranians they normally invite to their shows, saying they no longer could appear on the air because the editors were under orders to invite only guests who supported �reformist� candidates Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi.

On Tuesday morning, the Guardians Council in Tehran announced it would engage in only a �limited recount� of individual ballot boxes whose results had been disputed by one of Ahmadinejad's three opponents, erasing earlier hopes that they might annul the disputed election because of fraud.

Getting the Guardians to examine the election results at all took a great deal of pressure.

When Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei first announced Ahmadinejad�s victory, he defiantly called the election a �divine assessment� and certified the results immediately.

But pressure from within the ruling clerical elite gave him pause.

The next day, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani announced with great fanfare that he was traveling to Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, to convene the Assembly of Experts, a council of 86 top clerics who have the authority to name the supreme leader, or depose him.

Rafsanjani chairs the Assembly of Experts and said he wanted them to examine Khamenei�s decision to certify the election, giving rise to rumors that he was hoping to depose Khamenei as leader.

Monday�s massive demonstration also suggests that the Iranian people have loosened the shackles of fear, Kaveh Mohseni said.

In a third message to Iranians, Reza Pahlavi called on the police and security forces to �never forget that these demonstrators confronting you in the streets are your brothers and sisters who are fighting for your rights.�
Joining him was his mother, who spoke to the security forces �as a mother and as an Iranian� to encourage them �not to use violence against their brothers and sisters
.�

Iranian political activists have long criticized Reza Pahlavi for his inaction, and U.S. government analysts say they doubt that he has many supporters inside Iran.

But the protests inside Iran go way beyond one person, one faction, or one party. They have become a national grass-roots movement, a budding revolt that could soon reach a tipping point. And a regime change could spark reform in other areas.
Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer said, �Our only hope of changing the nuclear issue with Iran is not in the negotiations. It would be in the change of regime.�
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:40 pm    Post subject: Picture of Basiji who killed 7 in iran Reply with quote

"Arash Irandoost" wrote:

http://hakemiat-e-mardom.blogspot.com/

The criminal Baseej who opened fire and killed 7 innocent demonstrators have been identified:

ستار نجفی
کارمند معاونت طرح و برنامه وزارت تعاون
بسیجی ویژه و از فرماندهان گردانهای عاشورا
محل سکونت : میدان آزادی بلوار استاد معین پائین از تعمیرگاه مجاز ایران خودرو – کوچه سعادتی
نامبرده هم اکنون به علت شدت سوختگی در به آتش کشیده شده پایگاه در بیمارستان مرکز سوانح و سوختگی بستری می باشد



Ambassador Hakimi wrote:
Quote:
این بسیجی قاتل هفت نفر در تهران در روز گذشته است.
صورتش را بید داشته باشید تا بعد!
هاشم


Subject: Picture of Basiji who killed 7 in iran


Last edited by cyrus on Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:18 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:21 am    Post subject: Video History in the making: Spark of a new Revolution in Ir Reply with quote

Video History in the making: Spark of a new Revolution in Iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la7oXAkkysk
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:21 am    Post subject: Photos and Report: Today I Felt Proud to be an Iranian Reply with quote

Photos and Report: Today I Felt Proud to be an Iranian


http://www.payvand.com/news/09/jun/1177.html
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
cyrus
Site Admin


Joined: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 4993

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:03 pm    Post subject: Distribute: Please change your computer clocks to local Tehr Reply with quote

Arash Irandoost wrote:

Subject Urgent: Distribute: Please change your computer clocks to local Tehran time.
Dear Hamvatan,

here is what is reported in Jerusalem Post :

Iranian intelligence agents identify Web users in Iran by homing in on the local time settings of their computers. If the local time is set to Teheran on one's computer, "Iranian agents will think you're Iranian," Levyatan said.

As a result, Iranian protesters "have asked everyone to change their local time settings to Teheran," to confound such efforts, he said.




Read more below:


'Twitter war' proves kilobyte is stronger than the megaton

By YAAKOV LAPPIN


An image smuggled out of Teheran via the Internet in recent days may well have captured the essence of the struggle which has pitted followers of the reformist camp in Iran against the state authorities.

The image is of a computer owned by a University of Teheran student, which had been smashed to pieces by Iranian police officers during the recent unrest. Shards of glass mark where the computer screen had been.

"We [would] like to show [what] the police did to our dorms and computers [in the] last [few] days," a message on Twitter, the short-message social networking Web site, said, directing readers to the picture.

Yet however many computer screens are destroyed by the truncheons of Iranian security agents, and despite attempts by the regime to block access to sites like Twitter and Facebook, such sweeping measures of repression have failed to plug the enormous leak of information coming out of the Islamic Republic.

"Telephone report from my wife - They are open[ing] firing on the crowd. The police are refusing entry into the hospitals unless it is the Basij [pro-regime militia]," another message read, this time posted on the Teheran Bureau Web site.

According to the anonymous author, wounded protesters were told by militia members, "You deserve to die." This was one of the last posts to appear on the Teheran Bureau Web site.



Updates from Twitter, however, show no signs of abating.

"We students do not chant death to America , we want the American constitution," another Twitter message from Iran declared to the world.

It is Twitter which has most notably come to play an indispensable role in pumping out this type of information, forming a virtual pipeline connecting Iranian dissidents to one another and to the outside world.

"Twitter is most suited to a psychological information war, and right now in Iran there is a war over information," Dr. Yaniv Levyatan, an expert on information warfare at the Ezri Center of the University of Haifa, told The Jerusalem Post. "This is the first Twitter war."

"On the one hand, you've got Ahmadinejad's regime striving to manipulate and hide information, and to create an information monopoly. But unfortunately for them, this can no longer be done because of the democracy of the new media," Levyatan added.

"We are seeing the regime do everything it can to censor information, but its efforts aren't working because of the phenomenal rate at which updates are appearing," he said. "This is history."

Levyatan described a lightening-paced game of cat and mouse being played by the Iranian regime and its opponents on the Internet. In this game, proxy servers - alternative Internet servers located abroad - are playing a decisive role in helping the protesters sidestep Iranian state Internet filters.

"The main content of messages on Twitter is made up of IP addresses of proxy servers located in the West," Levyatan explained. Once an Iranian protester gets hold of a proxy server, he can use his cell phone to transmit videos and text to the outside world.

"This is also how they coordinate themselves on the streets and pass down instructions," Levyatan said.

"Yesterday, instructions were transmitted on Twitter on how to act during demonstrations. Activists were told not to get violent with the basij, and to demonstrate peacefully. In the cyber world, supporters of the reform camp outside of Iran are being asked to hack Web sites affiliated with the regime," he added.

The Iranian government has, however, also attempted to fight this new war.

Iranian agents have set up false Twitter accounts from which they transmit disinformation to confuse the reformists. False times and locations of fictitious protests are routinely sent out.

"Ahmadinejad's people are disguised as dissidents on Twitter. They will falsely tell demonstrators that a protest has been canceled," Levyatan said.

Iranian intelligence agents identify Web users in Iran by homing in on the local time settings of their computers. If the local time is set to Teheran on one's computer, "Iranian agents will think you're Iranian," Levyatan said.

As a result, Iranian protesters "have asked everyone to change their local time settings to Teheran," to confound such efforts, he said.

"The situation in Iran has proven that today, the kilobyte is more powerful than the megaton. The modem is more significant than a bullet. The modem connects us all to the global village, while the bullet strikes a single person," Levyatan said.

Still, the Twitter revolution has its drawbacks. The sheer quantity of information being transmitted means that quality information can be lost among less useful data.

"This is one of the problems, a flooding of information," Levyatan added.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great Forum Index -> News Briefs & Discussion All times are GMT - 4 Hours
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4 ... 12, 13, 14  Next
Page 3 of 14

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group