Is it a revolution? Or just hype on twitter? Any news junkies on the sift wanna update us?
[small update]
Some of the (few!) media outlets reporting on the protests:
http://www.memeorandum.com/
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
Also, pajamasmedia has a list of the various crackdowns Ahmadinejad has made on the protests.
[small update]
Some of the (few!) media outlets reporting on the protests:
http://www.memeorandum.com/
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
Also, pajamasmedia has a list of the various crackdowns Ahmadinejad has made on the protests.
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/07-minister.jpg
Mousavi is going to march in about half an hour. There have been rumors that the march was cancelled, but this was misinformation by the government. "#iranElection" on twitter and the "IRAN" group on facebook remain best sources of information. The mainstream media really dropped the ball on this one, and their headlines are a couple of hours or more behind, and not entirely reliable.
So far there has indeed been violence, but most of it is the usual kind of shit that happens when riot police do a stormtrooper imitation -- people get beaten, but not killed.
There have been videos showing a lone policeman firing his weapon into the crowd, and at least one or two reports of people dying, but so far nothing really horrific has happened as far as we know.
God only knows if there's any chance of this making a serious change in the country, but for now I'm both filled with this pernicious hope, and a terrible fear that this will turn very ugly any minute now.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Iran-s-Revolutionary-Guard-stages-a-coup
While this election showed there is institutional failure in having an open democratic process in Iran, a greatly positive note is the number of Iranians that perceived the election as being an institutional failure of an open democratic process. This will grow the base of people demanding more civil rights and an election system that isn't manipulated.
Demographically Iran is perfectly situated for a youth revolution. That they will have to fight for such basic rights is sad, especially against such an entrenched oligarchy. I only hope for the best for them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
They just gave instructions on how to watch the English version of the Iranian state media, which apparently had a discussion pannel being led by the US Green Party's 2008 candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney (super-wierd).
Iran's official results...
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/iranian-election-results-by-province.html
The more info that comes out it appears that this election wasn't just indirectly manipulated by screwing with communication systems, putting out false news stories, false announcements, falsely canceling opposing political speeches and rallies. It was most likely directly falsified. The ballot counting doesn't seem to make sense.