Green Brief #13 DEATH TO THE DICTATORS
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I'm NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar - twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter
- and I've been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several
hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet
sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my
reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from tweets. No news
media outlets have been used. (All my work is released under Creative
Commons (CC). You can freely use it and re-post it wherever you'd like
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These are the important happenings that I can positively confirm from
Monday, June 29 in Iran.
1. There was a human chain planned for today. The plan had been to
form it between Tajrish Square and the Railway; however, the route was
guarded heavily by Basijis, plainclothesmen and security forces.
Nonetheless, people at gathered Mellat Park, Valiasr Field, Vanak and
Valiasr Avenue and were trying to form a human chain. The police tried
to disperse the crowd and stop the human chain from being formed.
There were reports of clashes as well which cannot be fully confirmed.
Reports of police smashing people’s windows for honking their horns
and slashing their tires with knives.
2. Cell phone services were cut off around Valiasr as well as other
parts of Tehran. The Basiji had Daneshjo Park under their control and
helicopters were flying all over the place, especially over Valiasr.
Today was one of the few times when the government cut off phone lines
in order to disrupt communications between protesters and hinder their
coordination of the event. During the event, several people were
arrested as well. Most of Tehran was crawling with Basijis carrying
sticks, some on motorcycles sporting camouflage vests. Protesters and
some other people were wearing green wristbands in support of
Moussavi.
3. Larijani, the speaker of the parliament today said that CNN had
given money and cell phones to protesters to portray a wrong image of
Iran. He added that the unrest was not an important event and it will
be easily overcome and that it was just another experience for the
Islamic Republic.
4. Two former Ministers of Interior have asked the Ministry of
Interior to form an independent commission to investigate the problems
related to the election. They have asked for the release of all the
detained protesters as well and for the Iranian media to let
protesters’ demands be heard. They have also requested an
investigation into the deaths of protesters and other crimes committed
during the protests and ask that people should be compensated for
their losses.
5. Bijan Khajehpour a renowned Iranian political economist was
detained at the airport in Tehran on Saturday upon arrival from the
UK. Sources were unsure about his whereabouts but assumed he was in
Evin prison. Dr. Mehdi Khazali, the son of Grand Ayatollah Khazali,
who unlike his father is a critic of the government and Ahmadinejad,
was also arrested. The Iranian media also announced the arrest of some
people who were posing as Basijis. Yesterday’s arrest of Homa Roosta
has now been confirmed to not be true.
6. Human rights groups claim that so far over 2,000 people are still
in detention. Reports have surfaced that there is no more space left
for women in Tehran’s official prisons. Human rights’ activists report
on unsanitary and inappropriate conditions for imprisoned women
protesters in Iran's overcrowded jails. At least 60 of imprisoned
women are in the public wards and have only been given a blanket and
are forced to sleep in corridors.
7. Today, Amnesty International expressed concern about the political
leaders who have been arrested and claimed that they faced torture in
detention. This is while a member of the National Security Council
announced today that they were not going to release any of the
political prisoners any time soon.
8. Members of the National Security Council met with Khatami today. A
special commission has been ordered to be formed by the Judiciary to
take up the cases of the people arrested in the recent unrests.
Ahmadinejad has reportedly asked the Judiciary to investigate the
murder of Neda Agha-Sultan. In a letter, Ahmadinejad asked the head of
the Judiciary for answers in the death and called the killing
‘suspicious’.
9. State TV says Iran’s top legislative body has confirmed Ahmadinejad
victory in the disputed June 12th Presidential election after a
partial recount. The Guardian Council’s leader, Jannati said that the
GC deemed the complaints and irregularities irrelevant and thereby can
confirm the results. Clashes were reported in Tehran after people took
to the streets protesting the Guardian Council's ruling. (This cannot
be fully confirmed). People also started shouting ‘Death to Dictator’
on their roofs, after GC confirmed the victory of Ahmadinejad.
10. Since official results of Ahmadinejad’s win, only 11 countries
congratulated Ahmadinejad on his 'victory'. These countries are
Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, the
People’s Republic of China, Oman, Russia, Qatar and Venezuela.
11. The office of the Islamic Association of Sistan and Baluchestan
University was set on fire by anonymous people today. The office is a
hotbed of reform student activity.
12. Mohseni, Iranian Minister of Information, said today that he had
met with Mousavi and had told him that the path he had taken had no
end. He added that he told Mousavi that his insistence on annulling
the election would achieve nothing but create more problems for him
and his followers.
13. Five out of nine British Embassy staffers arrested earlier in the
wee were released today. The rest are currently being held at an
undisclosed location and include senior staff members. The government
issued a statement saying that the detained staffers had connections
with the unrest in Iran. . The EU threatened a mass pullout of its
ambassadors from Iran if the staffers were not released.
14. The spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Iran has
stated that they don't want to close any embassies. He added that the
arrest of the local staff of some embassies was not breaking
international conventions. He added the remaining four staffers will
be dealt with according to the law.
15. Keyhan, a newspaper close to Khamenei, slammed Mousavi today and
called him a criminal. Also in a TV confession, another of Mousavi’s
staffers was forced to say that the Iranian election protests were
preplanned. Press TV announced today that reports of Iranian soccer
players being punished for wearing green bands during their game with
South Korea are false, after FIFA inquired about their reported
lifetime ban which was placed by the Iranian Football Federation.
*Today, the source that had claimed of reports of persiankiwi’s arrest
has tweeted that she talked to persiankiwi and pk is still free. Pk
told the source that they simply don’t have access to resources for
tweeting at this point. **Also a HEARTY thanks to Amandapanda for
spending her precious time and energy on debriefing me to help
compartmentalize the work.
Read this if you want to help or get help!
The best help you could do is to retweet this link and let more people
know about what’s going in Iran. The mainstream media has completely
and utterly failed to get the message across so please, be the voice
for Iranians.
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throttling in an attempt to silence their people. Anonymous info shows
that many in Iran are looking for proxy and Tor information in Tehran
and all around the country. Please donate your bandwidth to help bring
down the Iran Curtain. Here are links on how to help and get help on
this:
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People Outside Iran: This is as clear and concise as I can be. I have
not included ANYTHING that I have sensed to be remotely fishy, but
humans always err.
People Inside Iran: Don't believe a WORD of what I am telling you. Do
what you think is best, keeping everything in mind. I know LITTLE of
what you know so make your decisions based on your OWN judgment.
Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF
Its funny how the arselifters in Iran keep blaming outside influences for the
trouble. Meanwhile, they were sending IADs to Iraq and prolonging the insurgency.
Its a good thing US forces surround them on 2 sides.
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- KRudd at his finest.
"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.
"This is the recession we had to have!"
- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.
"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.
"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
- Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election.
"A billion trees ..."
- Borke, pissed as a newt again.
"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.
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for its internal problems. The Soviet and Eastern bloc Communist
states were exactly the same. It is a patented characteristic of all
these totalitarian systems, religious and secular alike.
DEATH TO THE DICTATORS!
Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF
> Every totalitarian system blames everyone and everything but itself
> for its internal problems.
Of course.
> The Soviet and Eastern bloc Communist
> states were exactly the same. It is a patented characteristic of all
> these totalitarian systems, religious and secular alike.
>
> DEATH TO THE DICTATORS!
Agreed.
Tim Bruening
Lets release Taliban and Al-Qaida detainees into Iran to raise hell there! I understand
that the Taliban and Al-Qaida hate Iran!