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Feel free to discuss anything concerning the election. Links to resources, dissident media, and updates would be much appreciated!
NOTEWORTHY ARTICLES (will be updated frequently):
- BBC- Mass opposition rally in Tehran
- NYT Editorial- Iran's Day Of Anguish
- Press TV-Interior Ministry Releases Provincial Vote Count
- Guide for tweeting about the elections so that Iranian bloggers aren't arrested or killed
- Daily Show clips to lighten the mood
- Boston Globe - More demonstration photos
- Guardian UK - Protest photos, live blogging
- NY Times live blog
- BBC - Regime crackdown on Western media, New wave of demonstration so much bigger than previous ones
- Flickr photstream of violent protest photos *NSFW*
- Asia Times analysis
- HuffPo live blog
- Andrew Sullivan streaming updates
- Comprehensive timeline of protests & demonstrationsReuters- Iran rules our annulment, more crowds in Tehran
NOTEWORTHY TWITTERS (now without HTML fail!)
twitter.com/ProtesterHelp
twitter.com/Change_for_Iran
twitter.com/persiankiwi
http://twitter.com/voairan
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/opini
“Here is my country,” a young woman said to me, voice breaking. “This is a coup. I could have worked in Europe but I came back for my people.” And she, too, sobbed.
RT @chrislhayes To all the labor haters out there; wherever there's an authoritarian regime, labor is fighting it. http://bit.ly/11QkiA
RT @jimsciuttoABC: #iranelection Iran has banned all foreign journalists from reporting on the sts.
RT @jryanlaw PLEASE READ! Please read this before you mindlessly retweet Iran-related tweets - http://bit.ly/9NfTP
If you are on Twitter, I definitely recommend reading the last one.
Interior Ministry releases provincial vote count
This means that they ARE getting concerned and are now trying to cover their tracks. Of course, the people in charge are really mishandling this fraud. While initially it might appease certain people, because numbers do always seem impressive, I think this makes it easier to prove it there were concerns over the results. It just makes it easy to compare these numbers with 2005 numbers. I'm mainly comparing Karoubi & Ahmedinijad because it is easier to compare them since they were both candidates. A quick summary, in 2005, the election went to second round as no one got above 50% votes In 2005, Ahmedinijad's first round votes were 20%, and Karoubi was 18%. He didn't go to the second round, because Rafsanjani was 22%. This time it didnt even go to the second round, because Ahmadinijad got 62% while Karoubi got LESS THAN 1%! I cant imagine so much change in a mere 4 years. Now, lets look at the numbers more closely.
I look at the province of Fars. . In Fars, in 2005, Ahmedinijad got only 242,535 votes (13%). In 2009? 1.7 million! Thats 68%. Karoubi got 16,277 this time (0.6%) but last time he got 546,633 votes (thats double Ahmedinijad's votes!) and he was at 30.9%. So this guy went from getting half a million vote to just 16 thousand?
Here is another quick comparison. Ahmedinijad is winning almost every single province, and almost all of them above 50%. But look at 2005 results, people are winning differently in different province. This makes sense, because Iran is a very diverse country. It would like USA having every single state vote for the same person. One can have a field day with these comparisons.
Oh yeah, caught another one. Look at the province of Kurdistan, usually conservatives lose this state, because of it being Sunni Kurds. Ahmedinijad got 22, 353 in 2005 with only 6%! Karoubi ot the highest at a whooping 32%. In 2009, Ahmedinijad got more than 10 times more than last time, at 315,689, at 51%! From 6% to 51% in four years. Did he suddenly become the hero of all Kurds? Karoubi went from 32% to just 2%! I mean, come on!
Now look at Lurestan. I'm referring to this link for Lurestan because its not showing that province in the above link (not sure why). Ahmedinjad is 71%, 677,829, Karoubi is 44, 036 at 5%. Four years back? Ahmedinijad at 8%! Only 69,710. Karoubi had a huge 55%, 440,247! So again, this guy went from 55% to 5% while Ahmedinijad went from 8% to 71%? In four years? And Karoubi IS FROM Lurestan, and I'm from the same state, Luries are ethnically very different than northern Iranians. They are much furthur away from Tehran, have their own dialect, and love backing their own people. Even 55% in 2005 seems low for Karroubi, but votes were split with 7 candidates instead of this year's four. Ahmedinijad got received only 8%, but other candidates got 4%, 1%, 7%, %9%, 15%, and only Karoubi getting 55%. That makes it 91%, leaving 9% for write-in candidates and such, meaning than that figure itself is bigger than what Ahmedinijad got in that state.
*goes on an 'election fraud" wiki spree*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle
http://one-hoopy-frood.livejournal.c
Guardian UK's live post and pictures. Notable article: Twitter delays maintenance shutdown to help Iranian protestors.
Edited at 2009-06-16 03:56 pm (UTC)
The last time our people had a revolution, it didn't end well.
I am so disheartened right now.
It'll probably still be going on by the time your class gets out. Rally's usually last quite a long time, in my experience.
Sully just put up some good videos, too.
You guys are awesome for keeping me updated~!<3
daily show clips (won't embed in comments for some reason)
via Twitter
Don't know if this was posted, but it basically talks about how the last two election protests are nothing in comparision to this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle
A reader relays his friend's message from the scene:
They have arrested anybody they know. Some mullahs been arrested too, like Mohammad-Ali Abtahi.
They have blocked chat too. No chat. No mobile. No SMS. Nothing. And they are collecting all the satellite dishes. Twitter is blocked too. The only radio talking about protest 24 hours a day is Radio Farda, but we cant hear it good. I can hear it by satellite, but by radio it is so weak. [They are jamming it.] They are collecting satellite dishes.
The US should add a transmitter in Iraq. Radio Farda's only transmitter is in Dubai, so they need to add new one in Iraq.
That's going to look real good and not sketchy and propagandaish and foreign interventiony, and counter to the Mousavi movement AT ALL. *eyeroll*
One thing I have to ask: Does anyone know where I can get streaming coverage of the aftermath while at work? I need to get something done today, but it is very difficult knowing all of this is going on.
PS - I actually broke down and cried after checking my Twitter feed and seeing Change_For_Iran is back up and tweeting. Who knew any of us would get so invested in Twitter?
I don't need to be at work rn.