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The Living voice of the Movement was heard again"Allahu Akbar".This Friday, We all are going to send GREEN BALLOONS to the sky #iranElectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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Tonight, like past nights, the chants of "Allah-o-Akbar" were heard on roof tops of Tehran & other cities. #iranelection

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:27 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
#13 tvp

van Moussavi1388
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http://twitter.com/mousavi1388

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:28 schreef Py het volgende:

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Je kan mensen de straat af slaan/schieten. Maar je kan ze niet het verlangen uit hun hart pakken.

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:30 schreef Py het volgende:
Na het bloedbad van gisteren is er vandaag weinig gedemonstreerd volgens mij

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Iran doctor tells of Neda's death

The doctor who tried to save an Iranian protester as she bled to death on a street in Tehran has told the BBC of her final moments.

Dr Arash Hejazi, who is studying at a university in the south of England, said he ran to Neda Agha-Soltan's aid after seeing she had been shot in the chest.

Despite his attempts to stop the bleeding she died in less than a minute, he said.

Video of Ms Soltan's death was posted on the internet and images of her have become a rallying point for Iranian opposition supporters around the world.

Dr Hejazi also told how passers-by then seized an armed Basij militia volunteer who appeared to admit shooting Ms Soltan.

Dr Hejazi said he had not slept for three nights following the incident, but he wanted to speak out so that her death was not in vain.

He doubted that he would be able to return to Iran after talking openly about Ms Soltan's killing.


"I was there with some friends because we had heard that there were some protests and we decided to go and take a look," he said.

"Anti-riot police were coming by motorcycles towards the crowd."

Dr Hejazi said he saw Ms Soltan, who he did not know, with an older man who he thought was her father but later on learned was her music teacher.

"Suddenly everything turned crazy. The police threw teargas and the motorcycles started rushing towards the crowd. We ran to an intersection and people were just standing. They didn't know what to do.

"We heard a gunshot. Neda was standing one metre away from me. I turned back and I saw blood gushing out of Neda's chest.

"She was in a shocked situation, just looking at her chest. Then she lost her control.

"We ran to her and lay her on the ground. I saw the bullet wound just below the neck with blood gushing out.

"I have never seen such a thing because the bullet, it seemed to have blasted inside her chest, and later on, blood exiting from her mouth and nose.


"I had the impression that it had hit the lung as well. Her blood was draining out of her body and I was just putting pressure on the wound to try to stop the bleeding, which wasn't successful unfortunately, and she died in less than one minute."

Dr Hejazi said he first thought the gunshot had come from a rooftop.

But later he saw protesters grab an armed man on a motorcycle.

"People shouted 'we got him, we got him'. They disarmed him and took out his identity card which showed he was a Basij member. People were furious and he was shouting, 'I didn't want to kill her'.

"People didn't know what do to do with him so they let him go. But they took his identity card. There are people there who know who he is. Some people were also taking photos of him."

Dr Hejazi said he knew he was putting himself in jeopardy by talking about what happened.

"It was a tough decision to make to come out and talk about it but she died for a cause. She was fighting for basic rights... I don't want her blood to have been shed in vain."

He added: "She died on the streets to say something."

Dr Hejazi said he did not believe he could now return to Iran.

"They are going to denounce what I am saying. They are going to put so many things on me. I have never been in politics. I am jeopardising my situation because of the innocent look in her (Neda's) eyes."

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:31 schreef Whiskey_Tango het volgende:

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Ja, het vooruitzicht om omgebracht te worden is niet aanlokkelijk om in je groene kleedje op straat te gaan staan denk ik

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:32 schreef SeLang het volgende:

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Ik weet niet of jullie de video kunnen zien buiten de UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8119713.stm

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:37 schreef Tevik het volgende:
Iran elections 2009

Iran Elections 2009 | Secularists & Reformists planned 'fraud' complaints and protests in advance

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 09:15 schreef Disana het volgende:
http://twitter.com/persiankiwi had al 2 dagen niet getwitterd, maar er is nu een http://twitter.com/persiankiwi2

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It's 1:00 pm time to fly the balloons #IranElection #Neda17 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 10:51 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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Thanx , lijkt idd sterk op 'kiwi1'.
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http://twitter.com/iranriggedelect

Hoop er maar in houden.

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 23:59 schreef Elkafila het volgende:
Ik ben 6 weken geleden nog in Iran geweest.

Je voelde dat er iets zat aan te komen. Dit allemaal had ik echter niet verwacht.

Bizar

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 11:37 schreef k_man het volgende:

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Ik ook, maar ik had helemaal niet het gevoel dat er iets te gebeuren stond. De meeste mensen die ik sprak over de verkiezingen stonden daar vrij onverschillig tegenover. Ze hadden het idee dat er toch niks zou veranderen, wie er ook zou winnen.

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Ahmad Khatami, called for the execution of "rioters" during a speech at Tehran University.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 13:27 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Ook niet verrassend

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 13:27 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Ook niet verrassend

GRAPHIC - Iran: Protester Shot in Head and Killed by Basij - June 20 2009

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 13:53 schreef Py het volgende:

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De executies worden ter plekke uitgevoerd (graphic):

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GRAPHIC - Iran: Protester Shot in Head and Killed by Basij - June 20 2009

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 13:57 schreef Whiskey_Tango het volgende:

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Deze beelden zijn me wat te subjectief, wie weet heeft diezelfde gast net een baksteen naar de politie gegooid of iets. Geloof nooit echt ��n bron alleen.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:05 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:

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En al zou hij dat hebben gedaan, vind je het gerechtigd om 'm dan maar gelijk met een headshot om te leggen?

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e-source: "Tehran is very very quiet. There's anger & passion, but going out to show it doesn't seem very productive and is very dangerous"
16 minutes ago from web

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:08 schreef Whiskey_Tango het volgende:

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Ligt aan de situatie, ik weet niet wat hij gedaan heeft. Ik zie alleen iemand lopen die neergeknald word. Wie weet had hij wel op de politie geschoten 5 minuten eerder?

Ik trek geen conclusies uit deze beelden, hoe hard ze ook mogen zijn.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 13:43 schreef feessie het volgende:
Ik begin nu toch wel ernstig twijfels te krijgen over de houding t.a.v. het opwekken van kernenergie. Als ik nu zie hoe moordlustig dit regime kan zijn , snap ik best dat israel een preventieve aanval wil lanceren om dit te voorkomen.

Iemand een mening?

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:10 schreef Py het volgende:

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Dan nog wordt er iemand ge-executeerd zonder een echt proces, niet?
Wat wil je nou zeggen?

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Dutch:De volgende torrents bevatten videobeelden die politiebrutaliteit tenopzichte van de protesters, waaronder sommigen extreem grafisch. Al deze video’s zijn gecontroleerd op authenticiteit. Het is van kritiek belang dat deze lijst gedownload en geseed wordt, in de hoop zoveel mogelijk mensen te kunnen bereiken.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:20 schreef Catch22- het volgende:
persiankiwi is echt verdwenen he?

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According to witnesses: After chasing protesters off they started destroying anything they could get their hands on.

One militia hits a security window with such force that his baton gets hacked off. The hacked of baton was later found by residents inside the house. People are often hit with similar brutality... Broken bones and wounds requiring stitches are a common occurrence.

2009 Iranian Revolution - Basij vandalise private propertiy leaving evidence behind 17 june

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:37 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Even een stukje naar boven lezen, hij is er nog

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:37 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Even een stukje naar boven lezen, hij is er nog

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:46 schreef Py het volgende:

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Ja maar wie zegt dat persiankiwi en persiankiwi2 dezelfde zijn?
Op internet wordt daaraan getwijfeld, bevestiging is er nog niet.
De oorspronkelijke persiankiwi schijnt nog wel vrij rond te lopen maar is 'on the move' atm, volgens twitter.

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Today, those who are not YET intimidated, raided, arrested and threatened will fly green balloons in the sky. (All the above has happened to my loved ones ...)

Today, the idiot giving the Friday prayer sermon has launched implicit death threats against Mousavi.

Iran is now officially a fascist state ...

Nena 99 Luft Balloons

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 14:14 schreef Whiskey_Tango het volgende:

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Ik wil zeggen dat ik het terecht zou hebben gevonden als hij werd neergeschoten nadat hij een gelijk iets had gedaan een tijdje eerder (wat toevallig nooit zichtbaar is op die filmpjes ).

En wat ik wil zeggen is dat ik het walgelijk en barbaars zou hebben gevonden als hij werd neergeschoten zonder aanleiding of bedreiging voor de agent in kwestie.

Aangezien ik geen van beide zeker kan weten vorm ik er geen mening over, en vind ik het te subjectief om te gebruiken om sympathie op te wekken voor Iranese protesten.

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Top dissident cleric warns Iran over crackdown

TEHRAN (AFP) — Top Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri warned on Thursday that continued suppression of opposition protests could threaten the very basis of the Islamic republic.

"If Iranians cannot talk about their legitimate rights at peaceful gatherings and are instead suppressed, frustrations will build up which could possibly uproot the foundations of the government, no matter how powerful," the cleric said in a statement faxed to AFP.

It was the latest broadside fired off against the regime by Montazeri, who was once tipped to take over from the father of the revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but fell out with the late leader before his death.

Montazeri, now 85, also urged the authorities to set up an "impartial" committee with full power to find a solution to the worst crisis in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic.

"My recommendation to the great and dear Iranian nation is to pursue its logical and fair demands in complete calm," he added.

Tehran has been rocked by a wave of unrest since the result of the June 12 poll gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a thumping victory over his main rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Last week Montazeri called on Iran?s young people to pursue peaceful demonstrations against the election result, which the opposition has charged was rigged to ensure victory for the hardline incumbent.

One of the main architects of the Islamic republic, Montazeri was a student and close ally of Khomeini. But he fell from grace in the late 1980s after he became too openly critical of political and cultural restrictions, most notably Iran's treatment of political prisoners and opposition groups.

Montazeri resigned months before Khomeini's death in 1989, and was told by Khomeini to stay out of politics and focus instead on teaching in the religious city of Qom.

Montazeri, considered by his followers to be the highest living authority of Shiite Islam in Iran, has also questioned the theological credentials of current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

This was branded as treason, and in 1997 Montazeri was placed under house arrest for five years before being released under the presidency of Ahmadinejad's predecessor Mohammad Khatami.

Another top cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi said the election dispute must be resolved in a way that leaves no doubt in the minds of the people.

"The issue should be resolved in a way that turns suspicion into trust," he was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

"I expect that when the dust settles, we come up with solutions to the issue in order to achieve national peace. I call upon all experts to solve the crisis."

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Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was placed under house arrest in 1997

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:20 schreef Manke het volgende:
RT@cnnbrk@LaraABCNews RT from #iran Report: Execution of Some Protesters That Were Arrested Has Begun (Confirmed)

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:25 schreef feessie het volgende:

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Stemmingmakerij... dit geloof ik niet.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:41 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Zo ongelooflijk is het ook weer niet, de geschiedenis leert dat 'ze' nogal medogenloos opereren als het om tegenstand gaat. Verzet tegen de dictator wordt al snel uitgelegd als afvalligheid van het ware geloof en daar staat de doodstraf op.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:41 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Zo ongelooflijk is het ook weer niet, de geschiedenis leert dat 'ze' nogal medogenloos opereren als het om tegenstand gaat. Verzet tegen de dictator wordt al snel uitgelegd als afvalligheid van het ware geloof en daar staat de doodstraf op.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:48 schreef Py het volgende:

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Al vrij snel na de eerste demonstraties werd verkondigd dat elk protest gezien werd als een aanval op de islam.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:48 schreef feessie het volgende:

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Ik geloof zeker wel dat het ooit zal gebeuren , maar niet dat het nu al gebeurd.
De mensen komen eerst voor een tribunaal zover ik gehoord heb.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:25 schreef feessie het volgende:

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Stemmingmakerij... dit geloof ik niet.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 15:25 schreef feessie het volgende:

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Stemmingmakerij... dit geloof ik niet.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 16:12 schreef Disana het volgende:
Inderdaad, twijfels over de nieuwe persiankiwi:

@oxfordgirl persiankiwi2's English is much better - more grammatically correct. Don't believe it's her. Why change name to Persiankiwi2?

@oxfordgirl plus persiankiwi never listed her real name, this one does!

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 16:17 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:

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Dat tweede punt is natuurlijk kul. "Neda Agha Soltan" staat er als naam.

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Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, said the judiciary should charge the leading "rioters" as being "mohareb" or one who wages war against God.

"They should be punished ruthlessly and savagely," he said. Under Iran's Islamic law, punishment for people convicted as mohareb is execution.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090626/ts_nm/us_iran_election_213

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 16:16 schreef .txt het volgende:

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Sommige mensen denken echt dat Iran een leuk land is.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 16:25 schreef feessie het volgende:

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Ik vind het toch wel knap dat jij kan oordelen hoe ik over Iran denkt.
Er wordt een bericht getwitterd wat vrij veel op stemmingmakerij lijkt. Vervolgens trek ik dat bericht in twijfel en dan ga jij vertellen dat ik Iran een leuk land vind..

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 16:25 schreef feessie het volgende:

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Ik vind het toch wel knap dat jij kan oordelen hoe ik over Iran denkt.
Er wordt een bericht getwitterd wat vrij veel op stemmingmakerij lijkt. Vervolgens trek ik dat bericht in twijfel en dan ga jij vertellen dat ik Iran een leuk land vind..

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 19:41 schreef Hukkie het volgende:
Maar wat zou de buitenwereld precies moeten (en kunnen) doen dan?

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 19:45 schreef isogram het volgende:

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Militair ingrijpen, of daar minimaal mee dreigen.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 19:45 schreef isogram het volgende:

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Militair ingrijpen, of daar minimaal mee dreigen.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 19:45 schreef isogram het volgende:

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Militair ingrijpen, of daar minimaal mee dreigen.

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Iranian embassy employees have demonstrators with baton at a demonstration outside the embassy on Liding� in Stockholm on Friday afternoon, according to a witness on the spot.


Ten or twenty demonstrators broke through the fence, entered the embassy area. Then came some from inside the area, came forward p�kar and began to turn on the demonstrators, "said Roya Hakimnia, 24-year-old l�karstudent participating in the demonstration.

She saw himself more persons, men and women, be hit by truncheon kind, but says that no one seems to have been seriously damaged.

Inroads were made around the clock 16.30. The demonstrators were unarmed but had earlier thrown stones into the area, where several embassy staff moved to the lawn and looked throughout the demonstration.

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Swedish broadcaster SVT says Iran Embassy attacked

3 hours ago

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish broadcaster SVT says the Iranian Embassy outside Stockholm is being attacked by demonstrators.

The report says about 150 people are trying to storm the embassy building. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt.

SVT said Friday that about 20 police patrols arrived on the scene.

Copyright � 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Allahu Akbars begin. "Intensity hasn't diminished. I hear warning shots, but after the shot they changed to death to dictator" #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 20:55 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Iets aan de hand bij de Iraanse ambassade in Stockholm, via de Huffington post, lekker gammele vertaling uit Zweeds alleen weer helaas, gek bij Spaans werkt internetvertalen altijd heel goed.
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http://www.huffingtonpost(...)bloggi_n_221270.html

EDIT, hier van AP:
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http://www.google.com/hos(...)t5W19tgGHMgD992EOLG2

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 21:22 schreef kringspier het volgende:
kiwi is niet meer gezien, ofwel?

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 21:32 schreef Py het volgende:
Nope, niet meer gezien, niet meer gehoord.

Van de ambassade in Stockholm is een filmpje, uiteraard. Het staat in de hekken en als ze daar doorheen glippen begint er een mannetje te meppen.


Bekijk deze YouTube-video

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2009 22:04 schreef Py het volgende:
_{maar er wordt nog van de daken geroepen}

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Iran opposition alleges plot to implicate Mir Hossein Mousavi

Jailed Iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV "confessions" of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime, it was allegedtoday, as the country's guardian council buried hopes for any significant revision of the disputed presidential election.

According to Iranian opposition websites, the "confessions" are aimed at implicating Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the defeated reformist candidates, in an alleged conspiracy.

Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh and Mohsen Aminzadeh, all Mousavi supporters, are reported to have undergone "intensive interrogation" sessions in Tehran's Evin prison since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.

They are among several hundred activists, academics, journalists and students detained in a crackdown coinciding with the brutal suppression of street protests.

Prisoners reportedly heard screams from Tajzadeh and Ramezanzadeh in Evin's section 209, which is reserved for political prisoners and is run by the hardline intelligence ministry. Aminzadeh, a former deputy foreign minister, was heard shouting: "I am not going to give interviews."

Amnesty International said the reports came from "very credible sources".

The guardian Council has declared there were no major violations in the vote, which it described as the "healthiest" since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It had already rejected a call by Mousavi, for the election to be annulled because of suspected vote rigging.

a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, told worshippers at Tehran University: "I want the judiciary to ... punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson." Ominously, he used the term "mohareb" – "one who wages war against God" – a crime punishable by death.

Khatami's sermon, broadcast live on state TV, included accusations that the unrest was supported by Israel and the US, and that foreign journalists had reported falsely. He claimed Neda Agha Soltan, who became a symbol of the opposition when her death was caught on video, was a victim of protesters, not the security forces. "Government forces do not shoot at a lady standing in a side street," he said.

Protests have continued for nearly two weeks, but faded in recent days after a crackdown by security forces and a perceived lack of leadership by Mousavi. About 20 people have been killed and hundreds beaten and arrested.

This week, state television broadcast interviews with several people admitting to being "terrorists" after purportedly taking part in street demonstrations. But forced "confessions" have been used before to humiliate and discredit opponents of the regime.

Tajzadeh's wife, Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour, told the pro-reform website Emruz that she and a lawyer had been denied access to him since his arrest the day after the 12 June election. "Any quote or remarks made by these people in the current situation has no credibility. My husband's only crime is his efforts to secure a high turnout," she said.

Tajzadeh, 53, a member of the pro-reform Islamic Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organisation, has been a staunch critic of Ahmadinejad. Renewed fears have been voiced over the health of another jailed reformist, Saeed Hajarian, a former adviser to the reformist president Mohammed Khatami who is severely disabled from a failed assassination attempt nine years ago. Reports of Hajarian's death were dismissed by the reformist website Parlemannews, which quoted "informed sources" as saying he was in "relative health" and being given essential medication and care.

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, said at a G8 meeting in Trieste: "It is for the Iranian people to choose their government, but it is for the Iranian government to protect their people. The violence we have seen ...and the killings and the beatings are deplorable and they show a failure to protect their own people. There is a crisis of credibility not between Iran and the west, but between the Iranian counting of the votes and the Iranian people."

Meanwhile, state TV reported that the head of Mousavi's information committee, Abolfazl Fateh, had been prevented from leaving Iran for Britain, where he is a PhD student. Fars, a pro-Ahmadinejad news agency close to the country's Revolutionary Guard, said he had been banned from travelling to allow the authorities to investigate "recent gatherings", a reference to the pro-Mousavi demonstrations.

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Must go now, hope to have more news Saturday. #iranelection #gr88 #iran4 minutes ago from web

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world is saying Iran protests r over, we are at critical time. Ppl are prepared to die, R leaders must be prepared to lead. #iranelection12 minutes ago from web

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I think it is essential we R seen on the streets again, balloons are gd for election campaigns, but we must increase pressure. #iranelection13 minutes ago from web

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Op zaterdag 27 juni 2009 02:08 schreef Py het volgende:
Ze zijn ondergronds gegaan:

Demonstration in Tehran Underground

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Op zaterdag 27 juni 2009 12:50 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Check deze speech van een pro-Moussavi man in het Iraanse parlement:

Alikhani's Speech in Majlis in Support of Mousavi (English Subs)

Balls of steel.

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Op zaterdag 27 juni 2009 12:50 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Check deze speech van een pro-Moussavi man in het Iraanse parlement:

Alikhani's Speech in Majlis in Support of Mousavi (English Subs)

Balls of steel.

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Op zaterdag 27 juni 2009 20:38 schreef Manke het volgende:
enig idee hoe het er nu aan toe gaat? lees en hoor weinig meer

gamer over man, game over

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 01:11 schreef rechtsedirecte het volgende:
ik lees net op twitter dat persiankiwi gearresteerd is..er is echter onduidelijkheid over het feit of dit waar is

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 03:43 schreef rechtsedirecte het volgende:
het is nog lang geen game over...hier vind je vandaag genomen beelden op you tube

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 07:09 schreef rechtsedirecte het volgende:
nee, ik kan de (twitter) bron niet meer terug vinden maar volgens de poster zijn de beelden van 26 Juni

تهران30خردادPart2 Saturday 20june Demonstrations TEHRAN IRAN

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 12:29 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Nee, ze zijn van de 20ste:

تهران30خردادPart2 Saturday 20june Demonstrations TEHRAN IRAN

Dat is het irritante van al die niet-Iraanse twitteraars die zonodig onder dezelfde tags (iranelection, neda, iran, etc.) mee willen doen. Ze blijven maar herhalen ook al is het nieuws een week oud.

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 13:09 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Ik had ook al het idee dat ik dat eerder had gezien. Vooral dat gebouw in aanbouw met die grote Iraanse vlag. Dat leek me iets te toevallig dat alle demonstraties in de buurt van dat gebouw plaats zouden vinden.

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RT @IranAnon Up to 6:45 pm - 7tir, no particular clashes at Ghoba Mosque heard. Masses of ppl r gathering #iranelection9 minutes ago from web

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Mousavi FB called 4 his followers 2 attend demo at mosque. Gov allowed ths as 4 anniversary Beheshti death. #neda #gr88 #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

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CNN: Iran's gov will allow demo Ghoba mosque Sunday, CNN has confirmed. gathering officially 4 Beheshti,. #iranelection #gr88 #Nedaabout 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

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From Tehran: Mousavi expected at today's 7 Tir rally at Qobi mosque in Shariati, the first legal demonstration in over a week #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 16:52 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Verscheidene bronnen dat er een demonstratie en/of herdenking (toegestaan door overheid) is bij Ghoba/Qobi moskee, op dit moment aan de gang geloof ik:
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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 17:09 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Het is een herdenking. Achtergrond:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Beheshti

Ook:

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.(...)-silently-in-tehran/

June 28th, 2009
Thousands demonstrate silently in Tehran
Posted: 11:02 AM ET

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — About 5,000 protesters marched slowly and silently through Tehran Sunday, near a mosque where the government was allowing a demonstration for the first time in days, a CNN producer said.


Maar ondertussen zie ik ook twitters als deze:

"Snipers and Inteligence officers r seen on the roofs near Ghoba, an Unit of Anti-Riot Police Warned People to Leave!"

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 03:35 schreef rechtsedirecte het volgende:
het lijkt er op dat het verzet het steeds moeiljiker krijgt,

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zo 28 jun 2009, 17:59 | 0 reacties
Rafsanjani eist eerlijk onderzoek
TEHERAN - Een van de machtigste mannen van Iran, de puissant rijke ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, heeft zondag een eerlijk onderzoek naar klachten over de verkiezingen van 12 juni ge�ist.

Rafsanjani sprak op een bijeenkomst waar volgens de autoriteiten in de stad Teheran geen toestemming voor was gegeven. Hij sprak op een herdenking van een bloedige bomaanslag in 1981 op het hoofdkwartier van een politieke partij waarbij meer dan zeventig doden vielen onder wie partijleider ayatollah Mohammed Hosseini Beheshti.

Diens zoon Alireza steunt net als Rafsanjani oppositieleider Mir Hossein Mousavi in de politieke tweestrijd met het behoudende establishment. Dat wordt aangevoerd door geestelijk leider Ali Khamenei en de volgens de omstreden uitslagen herkozen president Mahmou

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 17:36 schreef Zith het volgende:
tja, daar komen geen revoluties van. WMB is het nu voorbij - ook de poltici op de achtergrond zien dat en zullen geen revoluties meer beginnen, tot over een jaar of 2-4 als het weer gaat beginnen, als de overheid niet de komende jaren zo veel propaganda gaat beginnen dat men andere vijanden gaat zien (ipv de staat)

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 19:11 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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Het lijkt er sterk op dat deze video wel van vandaag is en van deze demonstratie:

مسجد قبا-شریعتی-هفتم تیر 88

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 17:36 schreef Zith het volgende:
tja, daar komen geen revoluties van. WMB is het nu voorbij - ook de poltici op de achtergrond zien dat en zullen geen revoluties meer beginnen, tot over een jaar of 2-4 als het weer gaat beginnen, als de overheid niet de komende jaren zo veel propaganda gaat beginnen dat men andere vijanden gaat zien (ipv de staat)

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 20:23 schreef HiZ het volgende:

Wat wordt er in dat filmpje geroepen?

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 21:23 schreef yvonne het volgende:
http://www.leugens.nl/2009/06/28/je-weet-niet-wat-je-ziet/

Goed stuk!!!

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 21:28 schreef Whiskey_Tango het volgende:
Even uit een ander topic ook over de rellen in Iran, ik dacht dat 't opzich wel nuttig zou zijn aangezien hier hele tijd van die filmpjes en dergelijke getoond worden.
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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 21:28 schreef Whiskey_Tango het volgende:
Even uit een ander topic ook over de rellen in Iran, ik dacht dat 't opzich wel nuttig zou zijn aangezien hier hele tijd van die filmpjes en dergelijke getoond worden.
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Dalend stemmensaldo voor Mohsen Rezai
TEHERAN - Een van de drie presidentskandidaten in Iran die wedijverde met de herkozen Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohsen Rezai, zag bij het tellen van de stemmen zijn aandeel dalen. Dit zei zondag een naaste medewerker van Rezai, de ayatollah Mehrabi.

Volgens de offici�le uitslagen van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken had Rezai in de namiddag van zaterdag 13 juni circa 45.000 stemmen minder dan zaterdagmorgen toen hij officieel nog op 633.048 van de circa dertig miljoen getelde stemmen stond. Mehrabi vindt het uiterst vreemd dat Rezai naar 587.913 stemmen terugvalt, wanneer er vier miljoen meer stemmen zijn geteld.

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Op zondag 28 juni 2009 21:39 schreef Disana het volgende:
Dit zouden beelden van vandaag zijn, geschoten vanuit een auto die door de straten rijdt. Te zien zijn kleine clubjes betogers en vooral veel politie:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1153014835282&ref=nf

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 05:00 schreef GummyGadGet het volgende:
Michael Jackson dood..! En toen had niemand het meer over Iran .. succesvol de kop ingedrukt

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From Tehran | 28 June 2009

[TEHRAN BUREAU] As the crackdown intensifies in Iran, the opposition is developing creative ways to fight back using the regime’s own logic against it.

Today, June 28, is the death anniversary of the martyr of Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, a prominent Iranian cleric assassinated in a bombing in 1981. His martyrdom is trumpeted annually by the Islamic Republic in a commemoration ceremony open to the public — and as such, fully licensed.

Since last night, emails began circulating urging protesters to gather at the legal venue for the Beheshti event: Qoba Mosque in north Tehran. The slogan du jour, recommended for placards, was “The Vote is the Measure” — a famous Khomeini quote referring to the basis from which the Islamic Republic derives legitimacy: the popular vote.

Surely, we reasoned, the Revolutionary Guard would not dare open fire on a mosque.

When we arrived, I had to separate from my three male friends and go alone to the women’s section upstairs. The mosque was crowded and hot; a restless buzz filled the air. Young girls in green headscarves and chador-clad women with green wristbands were murmuring Mir Hossein Mousavi’s name. He was rumored to be on his way to make a speech here.

The service started at 6 p.m. I perched myself on a ledge on the balcony corner next to the window, overlooking the podium in the men’s section below. A muezzin launched into a long prayer, followed with a eulogy in praise of Beheshti. It was getting hotter by the moment as more people pressed in. A woman next to me whispered, “Is Mousavi really coming?” I smiled reassuringly at her, though by now — an hour had passed — I began to suspect the shadowy opposition leader was a no-show.

The muezzin droned on. I was getting fed up and ready to leave. Thankfully, just then it came — a roar of cheering from outside. Standing up on tiptoe, I looked through the arabesque grates by my side: what an overpowering sight! People, hands raised in the ‘V’ sign, as far as the eye could see in both directions down the street, chanting pro-Mousavi slogans. The chorus spread like lightening, and indoors erupted as well with fervid chanting.

Mousavi was barred from coming, mosque officials told the crowd. Go home, they warned — the security forces are on their way!

But people, confident in their numbers (upward of four thousand), began instead marching up the street, heading for Shariati Avenue, a main Tehran artery.

For about ten minutes we marched in peace. Late sunlight fell through the leafy canopy of maple trees overhead. There was a sense of happiness in being back out on the street, of seeing mass public solidarity again.

Not unsurprisingly, the peace was short-lived. We heard shots, followed by screams. Initially the crowd tried to stand its ground, linking arms and chanting, “No fear, we’re all together!” — but the Basij guards came down on us fast and hard. More gunshots, and in the space of a few seconds, the crowd began running the other way in panic. Pushed on all sides, I fell, and for the first time, understood what “being trampled underfoot” meant. Someone pulled me back up, and we ducked into the gate of some kind soul who had opened her home as sanctuary.

The sequence is one we are getting used to: Gather, disperse; march, run away; chant, get hurt; hide, tremble with others and share your common rage. The crowd didn’t seem tired of the game though. Good thing to know: The game is not over yet.

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'Ahmadinejad vermoordde Jackson'

de Iraanse president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heeft Michael Jackson vermoord. Zo leidde hij de internationale media-aandacht af van zijn land.

Dit is ��n van de complottheorie�n van de Britse krant Telegraph.
Voor Ahmadinejad kwam de dood van Michael Jackson precies op het juiste ogenblik. De berichten over de verkiezingen in Iran zorgden voor veel westerse kritiek. Maar sinds de dood van de 'King of Pop' is Iran in de meeste kranten naar de achterkant verwezen. Op Twitter werden de verkiezingen in Iran als toponderwerp vervangen door 'RIP Michael Jackson'.

De krant zoekt nog naar hard bewijs tegen Ahmadinejad.

Andere theorie�n

Volgens een andere complottheorie leeft Jackson nog en is hij een leven buiten de schijnwerpers begonnen, net zoals Elvis.

Weer een ander verhaal zegt dat de echte Michael Jackson al twee jaar dood is. De Jackson die enkele maanden geleden zijn concerten in Londen aankondigde was veel groter dan de 'echte'. Bovendien had hij stompere vingers en een andere loophouding.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 15:58 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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http://www.spitsnieuws.nl(...)moordde_jackson.html

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 05:25 schreef AryaMehr het volgende:

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Klopt. Ik zei vanmiddag nog voor de grap tegen mijn moeder dat het mij niet verbaast als straks blijkt dat Khamenei de dokter van Michael Jackson had omgekocht om hem in opdracht te vermoorden zodat alle aandacht over Iran verschuift.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 16:53 schreef Chooselife het volgende:

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-> BNW, TRU

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 16:10 schreef .txt het volgende:

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Kwaliteitsjournalistiek.

Tip: Ga het NRC lezen.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 17:44 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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Probeerde alleen heel subtiel het topic een klein schopje omhoog te geven.
En lees dit eens, aangezien je NRC fan bent
http://www.leugens.nl/2009/06/28/je-weet-niet-wat-je-ziet/

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Waarom zouden de Irani�rs in Teheran de Khomeiny-leus (Allah is groot) van de daken schreeuwen als ze voor westerse vormen van democratie zouden zijn, wat in de media gesuggereerd wordt?

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 18:07 schreef .txt het volgende:

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Sorry, maar wat een rotbetoog.

Neda is een symbool geworden van de protesten omdat ze is gefilmd terwijl ze stierf bij het protest door een kogel die waarschijnlijk afkomstig was van een Iraans militielid. Vervolgens werd het filmmateriaal populair op youtube, en gebruikten Irani�rs in het buitenland haar als symbool voor de onderdrukking in Iran.

Dat is het hele verhaal, verder niet moeilijk doen.

Bovendien getuigt dit van wel heel weinig kennis:
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Dat is wel het meest rare argument wat ik in tijden gelezen heb.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 18:32 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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Het is ook een bizar stuk. Typisch voorbeeld van 'kritisch denken'. Hij draagt geen nieuwe feiten aan, nog geeft hij een analyse van de situatie op grond van ervaringen. Hij bekijkt de zaak kritisch maar heeft geen enkele grond om dat te doen, zegt helemaal niks nieuws over de specifieke situatie. Dat er bias zit in de media wisten we allang natuurlijk.

Het enige dat we leren uit zijn betoog is dat Herman Franke kritisch kan nadenken, en dat hij behoefte heeft dat talent met ons te delen.

Lege huls.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 18:35 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Ben het volkomen met jullie eens. Simpel kunnen dus willen scoren, over de ruggen van de protesterende Irani�rs. 'Kijk mij eens kritisch zijn.'

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:00 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Ik vond het meer zo'n stuk van 'kijk mij eens niks weten maar toch een mening hebben'.

Op deze manier is het feit dat Iraniers bij Moskee�n protesteren ook een bewijs dat ze pro-regime zijn. Echte hervormers willen niet in de buurt van een moskee komen. Toch?

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:01 schreef henkway het volgende:

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het ging erom dat Rafsanjani daar zou spreken en die is niet pro regime

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Brkg News: Iranian TV: Guardian council confirms Ahmadinajad has won election after partial recount #iranelection

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:10 schreef Manke het volgende:
verrassend zeg:
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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:12 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Die lui hertellen net zo snel als ze tellen. Ik weet alleen niet wat ze geteld hebben; kennelijk niet de uitgebrachte stemmen.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:17 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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Wel, als je zegt hoogstens tien procent van de stemmen te gaan hertellen, terwijl het verschil meer dan twintig procent is, dan is het onvermijdelijk dat de uitslag bevestigd wordt.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:00 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Ik vond het meer zo'n stuk van 'kijk mij eens niks weten maar toch een mening hebben'.

Op deze manier is het feit dat Iraniers bij Moskee�n protesteren ook een bewijs dat ze pro-regime zijn. Echte hervormers willen niet in de buurt van een moskee komen. Toch?

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:34 schreef The.Apple het volgende:
Zo is het einde van de revolutie al in zicht?
sterf een langzame dood,

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:53 schreef Tokamak het volgende:

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Rafsanjani heeft zich nu erin gemengd, en heeft de kant gekozen van Mousavi. Rafsanjani is net zo machtig, zo niet machtiger dan Khamenei. Het is echt niet voorbij, enkel krijg je nu steeds meer een strijd van mammoeten. En oja, ik zou de '40 days after Neda' ook maar in de gaten houden. Dat kan nog ns 'leuk' worden in de straten. Dus, stiller, ja, voorbij, nee. (de Islamitische revolutie duurde ook enkele maanden)

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:53 schreef Tokamak het volgende:

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Rafsanjani heeft zich nu erin gemengd, en heeft de kant gekozen van Mousavi. Rafsanjani is net zo machtig, zo niet machtiger dan Khamenei. Het is echt niet voorbij, enkel krijg je nu steeds meer een strijd van mammoeten. En oja, ik zou de '40 days after Neda' ook maar in de gaten houden. Dat kan nog ns 'leuk' worden in de straten. Dus, stiller, ja, voorbij, nee. (de Islamitische revolutie duurde ook enkele maanden)

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:57 schreef Disana het volgende:
Gisteren IN de Ghoba moskee:

مسجد قبا - یکشنبه 7 تیر

En buiten:

http://www.demotix.com/ne(...)l-ayatollah-beheshti

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 19:17 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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Wel, als je zegt hoogstens tien procent van de stemmen te gaan hertellen, terwijl het verschil meer dan twintig procent is, dan is het onvermijdelijk dat de uitslag bevestigd wordt.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 20:02 schreef The.Apple het volgende:

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Neda is gewackt door de Sis, Als het bassji waren dan hadden we er wel beelden van.
Mousavi is al net zo machtig al Khamenei (op aanzien en op politiek niveau There 2 brothers of the same revolution), Het aansluiten van Rafsanjani is meer symbolisch.

(Mousavi was president in 1981 en Khamenei minister president, deze heren zijn alle 2 van de vorige revolutie, daarbij Rafsanjani komt pas veel later kijken op hoger niveau net als Ahmadinejad, Deze heren
hebben vrijwel geen politiek kapitaal tov Mousavi en Khamenei.)

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 23:34 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Eh, Rafsanjani heeft Khamenei op zijn positie geholpen en is een van de weinige mensen die hem op wettelijke wijze er weer uit kan zetten.

Om nog maar te zwijgen over het feit dat Rafsanjani ook een ongekend vermogen heeft en dus net als de 'tegenpartij' mensen kan omkopen en zelf ook nog een Ayatollah is.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 23:40 schreef The.Apple het volgende:

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En niet te melden heeft bij de IIRG, het is een symbool,
meer niet. En de macht op dit moment ligt bij de IIRG = Achmed en Khamenei

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 23:34 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Eh, Rafsanjani heeft Khamenei op zijn positie geholpen en is een van de weinige mensen die hem op wettelijke wijze er weer uit kan zetten.

Om nog maar te zwijgen over het feit dat Rafsanjani ook een ongekend vermogen heeft en dus net als de 'tegenpartij' mensen kan omkopen en zelf ook nog een Ayatollah is.

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Op dinsdag 30 juni 2009 00:00 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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Ik blijf telkens berichten tegenkomen over Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, steunpilaar van Ahmadi-Nejad, dat hij zelf Opperste Leider zou willen worden. Als ik de wikepedia pagina over hem lees lijkt me dat niet verbazingwekkend. Hij is ook degene die openlijk voor atoomwapens is itt Khamenei.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Taghi_Mesbah_Yazdi

Iemand hier meer ideeen over?

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Op dinsdag 30 juni 2009 11:50 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
Ik kwam deze site tegen, interessante analyses van Gary Sick: http://garysick.tumblr.com

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Op dinsdag 30 juni 2009 11:50 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
Ik kwam deze site tegen, interessante analyses van Gary Sick: http://garysick.tumblr.com

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Op dinsdag 30 juni 2009 11:50 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
Ik kwam deze site tegen, interessante analyses van Gary Sick: http://garysick.tumblr.com

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 23:34 schreef Dunckie het volgende:

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Dat hoeft natuurlijk helemaal niet he slimpie.

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Op maandag 29 juni 2009 07:15 schreef rechtsedirecte het volgende:
deze NZ'se nieuws website heeft een onbevestigd bericht dat persiankiwi veilig is..heeft iemand hier meer over gehoord of gelezen?

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i hve had contact Persiankiwi, they have knowledge of our private conversations from weeks ago, so I am not worried #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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For those who have not heard, Persiankiwi is fine and will be back. #iranelection #gr88 #iranabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

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Op donderdag 2 juli 2009 00:22 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Steeds meer verhalen van mensen over wat er met gevangenen gebeurd, zoals dit verhaal van een net vrijgelaten demonstrant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk(...)rrests-afshin-friend

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Op donderdag 2 juli 2009 15:21 schreef Manke het volgende:
omfg:
http://twitpic.com/8yj6f

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Op donderdag 2 juli 2009 15:21 schreef Manke het volgende:
RT from Iran - Confirmed fr source 4 ballot boxes found dumped in Shiraz. #iranelection

omfg:
http://twitpic.com/8yj6f

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Op donderdag 2 juli 2009 11:28 schreef _Qmars_ het volgende:
Op de achtergrond sluimert het allemaal nog. Ik weet dat de Perzen in Nederland druk aan het overleggen zijn. Dit is nog niet voorbij

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Iranian cleric says UK embassy staff face trial
Fri Jul 3, 2009 10:24am EDT

By Hashem Kalantari

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A powerful Iranian cleric warned on Friday that detained British embassy staff would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, and EU countries summoned Iranian envoys to protest against the detentions.

In London, Britain's Foreign Office said it was "very concerned" about Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati's statement that the local employees could be tried in connection with demonstrations against last month's disputed presidential vote.

"In these developments their embassy here maintained a presence ... Individuals were arrested and inevitably they will be tried as they have (made) confessions," Jannati told Friday prayer worshippers.

Jannati is a conservative who heads the Guardian Council, a powerful 12-member constitutional watchdog. There was no immediate comment from the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

A European Union official in Brussels said members of the 27-member bloc summoned Iranian ambassadors to protest against the detention of the Iranian staff from Britain's mission.

He said EU states agreed a gradual approach toward Tehran that could in future include visa bans and withdrawal of ambassadors from Iran, depending on how the situation evolved.

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"Tonight is a critical & dangerous night. Iran's fate could be decided today. I'm very scared, very!" #iranelection10 minutes ago from web

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Is this the lull before the storm. Tehran and major cities reported very quiet today #iranelection #Iran #Iran #Iran #Iran #Iranelections24 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2009 18:58 schreef HiZ het volgende:
Ja ik had het ook gelezen. En ik zat me af te vragen hoe lang Rafsanjani nog dacht te kunnen afwachten. Als hij niets blijft doen, dan komen ze straks niet zijn dochter maar hemzelf halen. En dan is het voorbij voor hem.

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za 04 jul 2009, 16:49
Iran hangt 20 drugshandelaren op
TEHERAN - In Iran zijn zaterdag twintig mensen in een keer opgehangen na veroordelingen wegens drugshandel. Dit heeft het persbureau Fars gemeld.

Iran kent na China wereldwijd de meeste executies per jaar: 246 vorig jaar. Toch is het zeldzaam dat in de islamitische republiek zo veel mensen tegelijk worden opgehangen.

In Iran staat de doodstraf op tal van vergrijpen, zoals moord, verkrachting, roof, drugshandel en overspel.

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Mousavi: The assembly of teachers and scientists of "Qom" cleric school, declarethis election to be illegitimate. #iranelection #Iranabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2009 19:51 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Maar ook dit (uit meerdere bronnen):
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http://twitter.com/oxfordgirl

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The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.

A statement by the group, the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum, represents a significant, if so far symbolic, setback for the government and especially the authority of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose word is supposed to be final. The government has tried to paint the opposition and its top presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, as criminals and traitors, a strategy that now becomes more difficult — if not impossible.

“This crack in the clerical establishment, and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,” said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. “Remember, they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.”

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2009 18:58 schreef HiZ het volgende:
Ja ik had het ook gelezen. En ik zat me af te vragen hoe lang Rafsanjani nog dacht te kunnen afwachten. Als hij niets blijft doen, dan komen ze straks niet zijn dochter maar hemzelf halen. En dan is het voorbij voor hem.

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Iran clerics declare election invalid and condemn crackdown

Martin Fletcher

Iran’s biggest group of clerics has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election to be illegitimate and condemned the subsequent crackdown.

The statement by the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qom is an act of defiance against the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has made clear he will tolerate no further challenges to Mr Ahmadinejad’s “victory” over Mir Hossein Mousavi.

“It’s a clerical mutiny,” said one Iranian analyst. “This is the first time ever you have all these big clerics openly challenging the leader’s decision.” Another, in Tehran, said: “We are seeing the birth of a new political front.”

Professor Ali Ansari, head of Iranian Studies at St Andrews University, said: “It’s highly significant. It shows this is nowhere near resolved.”

The association’s statement also shows how deeply the political establishment is divided, and the extent to which the Supreme Leader now derives his power from military might, not moral authority. It makes it much harder for the regime to arrest Mr Mousavi and other opposition leaders.

At the weekend a top aide to Mr Khamenei demanded that Mr Mousavi and other opponents be tried for “terrible crimes”, and the elite Revolutionary Guards accused them of “trying to overthrow the Islamic establishment”.

In other developments, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said yesterday that he expected the eighth of the nine British Embassy employees arrested ten days ago to be released soon but a lawyer representing the ninth — a political analyst named Hossein Rossam — said he would be charged with threatening national security.

Mr Miliband expressed “cold anger” at the way the nine had been treated.

The regime freed Iason Athanasiadis, an Anglo-Greek journalist arrested on June 19. However, a lawyer for Maziar Bahari, a Canadian-Iranian journalist working for Newsweek, said he faced charges of “instigating riots and acting against national security”. The Association of Researchers and Teachers is based in Qom, the clerical nerve centre of Iran, and includes many leading ayatollahs with impeccable revolutionary credentials and big personal followings.

The association did not support a candidate in the election, but has now lined up firmly behind Mr Mousavi. In a rebuke to the regime it declared on its website: “Candidates’ complaints and strong evidence of vote-rigging were ignored . . . Peaceful protests by Iranians were violently oppressed . . . Dozens of Iranians were killed and hundreds were illegally arrested . . . The outcome is invalid.”

It called on other clerics to speak out, demanded the release of all those arrested in the past three weeks, and directly challenged the authority of the Guardian Council, a body of 12 senior clerics that has openly backed Mr Ahmadinejad and his patron, Mr Khamenei. “How can one accept the legitimacy of the election just because the Guardian Council says so?,” it asked.

On Wednesday, a day after the Guardian Council said that the election result was final, Mr Mousavi talked of forming a new political grouping to fight an illegitimate government.

With the popular former president Mohammad Khatami and Medhi Karoubi, another defeated candidate, challenging the Government’s legitimacy, and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, another former president, pointedly meeting the families of those killed in street demonstrations, that coalition is beginning to take shape.

“The fact that anyone dares to condemn the election when people were calling for Mousavi and Karoubi’s heads is remarkable,” said the analyst in Tehran. “It shows there is depth to Mousavi’s support. They have not been bullied into silence, there are factions forming and this is not over.”

Mr Mousavi issued a 25-page paper detailing election abuses ranging from the printing of 14 million extra ballot papers to bribes to ballot boxes containing not a single vote for him even in his hometown.

Mr Miliband expressed fury at Mr Rossam’s detention. The charge that he had helped incite the protests had “absolutely no basis”. Mr Rossam, 44, was “an honourable, patriotic Iranian, who has been working in a completely open and transparent way for the UK”.

The European Union’s member states have protested to Iran and will consider tougher measures if Mr Rossam is not released this week. British officials are also hoping for a strong statement from Wednesday’s G8 summit.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2009 13:02 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:
Ik heb de serie even voor een week gemist.
Maar er zijn geen protesten meer alleen in de top blijft het onrustig

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Tehran to be shut down for 24 hrs (48 4 industries) due to severe air pollution: http://bit.ly/NUNKy19 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Breaking News: The speaker of the Guardian Council may step down, citing academic interests. #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web

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Tehrani on how ppl feel now: Graffitti showing up on walls. Allahu Akbars still going. People will strike back, just waiting for the chanceabout 21 hours ago from web

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#nir contact, regarding 18 Tir rally "This might prompt Experts to call upon the Forces & declare State of Emergency."about 3 hours ago from web

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Op maandag 6 juli 2009 17:53 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

Breaking News: The speaker of the Guardian Council may step down, citing academic interests. #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web

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De Franse president Nicolas Sarkozy heeft vandaag vrijlating "op zeer korte termijn" ge�ist van een in Iran opgepakte Franse docente. De 23-jarige Clotilde Reiss werd 1 juli op de luchthaven van Teheran wegens spionage gearresteerd. Sarkozy noemde de aanklachten tegen de Fran�aise "pure fantasie", berichtte de Franse radiozender Europe1.

De Iraanse autoriteiten beschuldigen Reiss van deelname aan de protesten tegen de omstreden verkiezingen van 12 juni. Ook zou ze foto's van de demonstraties, die ze had gemaakt met haar mobiele telefoon, hebben gestuurd naar een vriend in Teheran. Reiss gaf sinds vijf maanden Franse les op de universiteit van Isfahan.

Frankrijk riep de Iraanse ambassadeur gisteren in Parijs op het matje.
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WASHINGTON - De Verenigde Staten hebben Isra�l geen toestemming gegeven de nucleaire installaties van Iran aan te vallen.

Dat zei de Amerikaanse president Barack Obama dinsdag tegen CNN.

De president voegde eraan toe dat Washington andere landen niet kan dicteren wat hun belangen op het gebied van veiligheid zijn.

Wat Obama betreft wordt de onenigheid met Iran over de nucleaire ambities van het land via de diplomatieke weg opgelost.

Biden

In het weekeinde zei vicepresident Joe Biden in een interview met de Amerikaanse omroep ABC dat de VS Isra�l niet in de weg zullen staan, als de regering van premier Benjamin Netanyahu besluit tot een aanval op Iran.

Als de regering van Istra�l besluit tot een nieuwe richting in het Iranbeleid, heeft ze het het soevereine recht dat te doen, aldus Biden
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Iran 'security state' lambasted

Iranian opposition leaders have criticised what they describe as the "security state" imposed in the country after the controversial June elections.

They also called for the release of people detained during mass protests that followed the vote.

Runner-up Mir Hossein Mousavi's website said the call was backed by fellow defeated candidate Mehdi Karoubi and former President Mohammad Khatami.

The vote was won by hardline incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Although many opposition figures have accused the state of rigging the result, Iran's most powerful figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has given his seal of approval.

“ If the people had not been lied to or disrespected, the situation would have never turned to a national crisis ”
Ghalamnews report

On Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei issued a sharp warning to Western nations not to meddle in Iran's internal affairs, saying relations would suffer if they did.

More than 1,000 opposition supporters and prominent reformists were reportedly arrested in the aftermath of the election, and three weeks later it is possible hundreds remain in prison.

'Extraordinary peace'

The strongly worded statement on the Ghalamnews website followed a meeting between the three opposition and reformist figures, as well as a number of supporters.

It conveyed their harsh criticism of "attacks against innocent people, dormitories, and houses... and some shocking brutalities carried out by plainclothes forces supported by security forces".

IRAN UNREST
# 12 June Presidential election saw incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected with 63% of vote
# Main challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi called for result to be annulled on grounds of electoral fraud
# Street protests saw at least 17 people killed and foreign media restricted
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It also referred to the deaths of protesters "whose only crime was to object to the election fraud... at spontaneous several-million-strong demonstrations held in extraordinary peace and order".

"If their rights had been slightly respected or if the people had not been lied to or disrespected, the situation would have never turned to a national crisis," the Ghalamnews statement says.

Mr Karoubi, Mr Mousavi and Mr Khatami go on to underline the importance of ending the "super-security state" and call for the immediate release of protesters who had not committed any crime.

If the current situation is allowed to continue, the statement says, it would lead to increased radicalisation of politics.

Along with the other arrests, the authorities are holding a local employee from the British Embassy, who has been charged with "acting against national security".

Correspondents say, Iran's clerical leadership is showing a steely determination to keep control amid the controversy, and urging people to unity in the face of western enemies.

In another sign of this toughness, late on Sunday the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, under direct control of the supreme leader, acknowledged that his elite force had played a key role in putting an end to street protests.

Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari said the RG's intervention had given "new life" to the Islamic Revolution and "strengthened its pillars".
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It was Ahmadinejad's first national speech since the supreme leader declared the election results valid despite outcry from the other candidates and weeks of street protests claiming that the results were fraudulent.

"This is a new beginning for Iran ... we have entered a new era," the president said, explaining that the 85 percent turnout and overwhelming win had given his government a new legitimacy.

"It was the most clean and free election in the world," he said, adding that during the re-count "no fault was discovered. The whole nation understood this."

"This election has doubled the dignity of the Iranian nation," he said.

During the half hour speech, Iranians in many parts of the capital Tehran could be heard shouting from their rooftops, "death to the dictator" and "God is great" — actions that have become a symbol of defiance since the elections.

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In his speech Tuesday, president criticized his election rivals and accused them of working with Iran's enemies.

"Unfortunately, some people inside Iran collaborated with them. They repeated the remarks made by certain Western countries," Ahmadinejad said, as he accused the West of interfering in the country's politics.

"The result of their childish acts of interference in Iran's internal affairs is that the Iranian nation and government will enter the global stage several times more powerful," he said

Despite the regime's rhetoric, a number of top clerics have continued to question the election — a rare defiance of the supreme leader from the ranks of the religious establishment.

This week, a party close to one of the most politically powerful clerics — former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — issued a statement rejecting Ahmadinejad's victory. It was one of the strongest hints yet on the powerful cleric's stance. He is the head of two major clerical ruling bodies and is a bitter enemy of Ahmadinejad, but has kept his distance from the postelection turmoil.

"Due to the unhealthy trend of the election, widespread irregularities and the support extended by a majority of Guardian Council members to a specific candidate, the result of this election is not acceptable," the Kargozaran party said in its statement, published on Mousavi's Web site.

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RT @atlatl2 Aren't Ahmadi's speech and Jackson's funeral happening at the same time? Was that intentional? #iranelectionabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

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Ahmadinejad about to appear on TV. Take down the grid. #iranelectionabout 4 hours ago from web

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Tehran will be in Forced Holiday tomorrow Again, in fear of General Strike and Demonstrations! #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web

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Black Out: Khomini Shahr, Shahin Shar, Folad Shahr,Kashan.., #iranelection #iranabout 2 hours ago from web

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It is More than 45 mins, People Still chanting on the roofs all over the city: Death To the Dictator! #iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web

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By JASON REZAIAN in Dubai | 5 July 2009

[TEHRAN BUREAU] The many tools implemented by the Islamic Republic to sedate its populous are the same ones now being used as detours around restrictions of public assembly. I’ve often wondered, over the years, how Iran gets anything done with its endless series of public holidays honoring the births and deaths — mostly deaths — of important figures of its history, both ancient and modern.

Public art in Iran, the naming of streets and squares, and its political discourse are all wrapped up in a package laden with heavy doses of mourning. Ironic, as Iranians are notoriously lovers of all things living and lively.

What has become a dominant part of the social landscape is finally being co-opted by the people of Iran. Mourning rituals, once thought of as arcane practices of the second class, are now being used to mobilize the masses.

Over the past month and a half many of these moments have felt historically convenient. Perhaps it’s just that Iran has so many flashpoint dates in its old Islamic, as well as revolutionary history book. Regardless, these anniversaries keep popping up.

The next one, and perhaps most pivotal to the current movement, happens to fall on Thursday of this week: the 18th of Tir (or 9th of July.)

On that day in 1999 students protesting the closing of the reformist newspaper Salaam were attacked in their dormitories in Tehan and Tabriz. Six days of protests ensued, which began with several hundred students and blossomed into thousands of people from all walks of life supporting the demonstrations. They were the biggest display of anti-regime sentiment in the Islamic Republic’s then twenty-year history, and they were put down by the regime with a mandate by the threatened leadership to stop the unrest “at any cost.” Sounds familiar.

The difference between then and now is that ten years of small victories and heavy setbacks for reformers have left them disillusioned, but also hardened and more fearless. I have been in Iran on the 18th of Tir several times over the past eight years, and have seen firsthand that security is always heightened that day. The regime knows that in its love for anniversaries, they’ve created a volatile beast that may need taming. It’s interesting to note that I’ve also twice witnessed the same security increases on the anniversary of September 11.

Through the events of the past month it’s become very clear that deep cracks within the establishment exist, and they are now visible to everyone. A group of influential clerics in Qom have gone so far as to use the imagery of loss and mourning to begin to compare the recent death of protestors to those killed in the revolution and the war with Iraq. In a statement issued on the 4th of July, they asked to save “the dignity that was earned with the blood of tens of thousands of martyrs.” While such comparisons may seem early to some observers, the authors of the letter fully understand their intentions in making such a bold proclamation.

So far it’s unclear how this 18th of Tir will be marked. I’ve heard from friends still in Tehran that “something big” is in the works, but no one has any details yet. This is partially because they don’t want to broadcast their hand to the security forces, who will undoubtedly be prepared to defeat the crowds. Perhaps more troubling though is that, as with the original 18th of Tir protestors, so many of the current movement’s leadership has been detained or otherwise silenced.

Mass emails have begun to circulate, and I know of Iranians abroad planning to return to Tehran to participate in the protests. This is a marked difference from anti-regime protests of the past, many feebly fueled by calls from disreputable satellite channels beamed in from Los Angeles by self interested, self-proclaimed exiles.

No, this is something else entirely, and it will help separate those with the genuine goal of constructing an Iran that simultaneously respects its ancient past but also its goals for the future, from those callous opportunists who differ little no matter on which continent they perch.

Kudos to Marjane Satrapi for perfectly encapsulating what many have wanted to say for the past 30 years, but few have had the conviction or eloquence to do so.

“Once you leave your homeland, you can live anywhere. But I refuse to only die in Iran. I will one day live in Iran… or else my life will have had no meaning.”

Now the question is how many people making these pronouncements from abroad are ready to follow through, by making the simple gesture of returning to Iran.

The protests in Iran of the past month have become an issue of global importance to Iranians and non-Iranians alike. Thursday may prove very telling as to whether future generations will look back on the 18th of Tir as a day of celebration or just another in the long list of mourning.

Copyright � 2009 Tehran Bureau

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Khamenei's son takes control of Iran's anti-protest militia

• Mojtaba Khamenei's move dismays clerics and Revolutionary Guard generals
• Tehran doctor says death toll much higher than official figure

The son of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has taken control of the militia being used to crush the protest movement, according to a senior Iranian source.

The source, a politician with strong connections to the security apparatus, said that the leading role being played by Mojtaba Khamenei had dismayed many of the country's senior clerics, conservative politicians and Revolutionary Guard generals.

But these conservatives are reluctant to challenge the Khameneis openly out of fear that any conflict would destabilise the Islamic Republic and weaken Iran in the region. Instead they will use their positions in the organs of state to make it hard for the supreme leader and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to govern.

"This game has not finished. The game has only just started," the source said, on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his own position in Iran.

He said Mojtaba had played a leading role in orchestrating Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory on 12 June and had led the backlash against protests through direct control of street militias, known as basiji.

The official death toll from that backlash is less than 20 but, according to a Tehran doctor who has given his account to the Guardian, the actual number is much higher – 38 in the first week at his hospital alone. He said the basiji covered up the deaths and pressured doctors not to talk.

"Mojtaba is the commander of this coup d'etat. The basiji are operating on Mojtaba's orders, but his name is always hidden in all of this. The government never mentions him," the Iranian politician said. "Everyone is angry about this. The maraji [Iran's most senior ayatollahs] and the clerics are angry, the conservatives are very angry and strongly critical of Mojtaba. This situation cannot continue with so many people on the top against it."

Very little is known about Mojtaba Khamenei. He is the supreme leader's second son, reportedly being groomed to succeed his father. Such a dynastic succession would be very hard under present circumstances as the leader is supposed to be chosen by a clerical assembly of experts on the basis of the candidate's religious standing. Mojtaba wears clerical robes but by no means has the theological status to rise to the top job. A major upheaval in the clerical establishment would be required to arrange it.

Within Iran, Mojtaba is widely believed to control huge financial assets. There are claims on Iranian dissident websites that the current anti-British campaign in Tehran is motivated in part by Britain's announcement on 18 June that it had frozen nearly �1bn in Iranian assets, in accordance with UN and EU sanctions. The frozen funds included a lot of Mojtaba's money, it is claimed.

Mojtaba's name does not appear on the Treasury's list of targets of those sanctions, but one British official said the supreme leader's son may operate through state-run enterprises that are listed. "I'd be amazed if some of the money wasn't his," the official said.

The Iranian politician who spoke to the Guardian said the supreme leader had long been leaking support among the religious hierarchy on which his powerbase was once built and had now virtually lost it altogether. Among the roughly 20 maraji ("sources of emulation", from whose ranks the supreme leader is supposed to be chosen), he said Khamenei could only rely on the support of a handful.

He said that an axis of lay conservatives in important positions would also try to hinder Ahmadinejad's efforts to wield power. That axis includes Ali Larijani, the parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the Tehran mayor, and Mohsen Rezai, one of the defeated presidential candidates and the secretary of the expediency council, which mediates disputes between the clerical and lay state institutions. They would be supported by the opposition's most powerful backer behind the scenes, former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the expediency council and the assembly of experts.

The Iranian source also claimed there were splits in another pillar of the Islamic Republic, the Revolutionary Guard. The overall commander, General Ali Jafari, and the Tehran province commander, General Ali Fazli, were opposed to Mojtaba's power grab.

He said the hardline statements issued in the Revolutionary Guard's name, threatening a "decisive confrontation" with protesters, were the work of the political and public relations departments, which are under the direct control of Ahmadinejad, and did not represent a united position. That is a controversial claim. Most analyses have presented the Revolutionary Guard as monolithic and entirely behind the regime.

For revolutionary stalwarts uneasy over the direction of the regime, open rebellion was unthinkable, the politician said. "For them, the red line is the stability of the country," he said. "They will continue softly."

He said this hidden internecine struggle would last a considerable period and the outcome was far from clear. The only certainty was that the Khameneis and Ahmadinejad had not yet won. "They control things on the surface," he said. "But Iranians are not sheep."

* guardian.co.uk � Guardian News and Media Limited 2009

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Iran election protests: Iranians set Thursday as day of protest in more than 200 cities and towns

Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi, Tribune Newspapers
July 9, 2009

TEHRAN - -- There are no formal organizers. But in cities across Iran, thousands of people are planning to silently march Thursday in forbidden demonstrations.

The protesters intend to show their discontent over the re-election last month of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and mark the 10th anniversary of a violent confrontation between students and security forces.

According to one circular passed around online, demonstrations are planned in more than 200 Iranian cities and towns, though opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has called for an end to public protests.

Tehran police chief Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam vowed Wednesday that his forces would confront any demonstration.
But many in Iran say they will go ahead with the demonstrations anyway.

"A virtual campaign is in full force, and nobody is able to keep it in check," said one announcement, advising protesters to carry no weapon heavier than a rose.

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No Mobile Network at Centrlal Tehran. #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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People Gathering at Vanak Sq. #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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Enghelab Sq is not completely closed but Police standing everywheree try to find key protesters among crowd...#iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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Army Unit (IRG) Positioned infront of Interior Ministry. #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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Guards moving toward Jmalzadeh Cr. and Police replaced at Enghlab Sq. #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

18 Tir 1388, Tehran, Bolvare Keshavarz (part 1)

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Violent clashes erupted today in downtown Tehran between more than a thousand determined young men and women chanting, "Death to the dictator" and "God is great" and security forces wielding truncheons.


The screams of a woman being beaten could be heard from nearby buildings, a witness said. Business owners could be seen hustling protesters into their buildings to shield them from plainclothes officers and anti-riot police who fired tear gas canisters.

Passing drivers and motorcyclists honked their horns and flashed the "V" sign in support of the clumps of demonstrators. At least one trash bin was set afire, a witness said, sending a plume of black smoke rising as dusk approached.

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Op donderdag 9 juli 2009 18:45 schreef Disana het volgende:
Bedankt voor de updates. Ik kende omidhabibinia nog niet trouwens.

Moedig dat ze de straat op zijn gegaan.

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Op donderdag 9 juli 2009 22:44 schreef Hukkie het volgende:
Toch welk frappant dat je hier over helemaal nie s in de media hoort of leest.

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Op vrijdag 10 juli 2009 00:46 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Er was een nieuwsflits in het NOS Journaal van 8 uur, met beelden van rennende mensen. Er werd gezegd dat er met traangas werd gegooid.

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Call for Tomorrow Demonstatrtion at 17.00, Vali Asr Sq. #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web

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Two friends was with my injured friend arrested hospital, he got shot in the shoulder and may transfer to a military Hospital.#iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web

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Ghaemi: many basijis in this week's #iranelection violence were under 18, many more than in previous protestsabout 5 hours ago from txt

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security source: #irenelection protesters did cause nationwide blackouts by deliberately spiking energy use during AN's July 6 TV speechabout 7 hours ago from web

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I will have to try get 100% gd source for Khamenei illness. No good speculating on rumours. #iranelection13 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Khamenei ill & his son 2 take power? If tru, my sources no confirmation, then no wonder Grand Ayats welcome ppl turning on gov #iranelection15 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Iraanse inflatie naar 22,5 procent

Uitgegeven: 12 juli 2009 09:53
Laatst gewijzigd: 12 juli 2009 10:29

TEHERAN - De inflatie in Iran is weer iets afgenomen tot een percentage van 22,5 procent. Dit berichtte zondag de krant Sarmayeh op gezag van maandelijks gepubliceerde cijfers van de centrale bank.

De voorafgaande maand stond het percentage nog op 23,6 procent. In september was het 29 procent.

De geldontwaarding is een van de grootste problemen van Iran.

Voor de nog steeds omstreden presidentsverkiezingen van 12 juni hamerden economen en rivalen van president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad erop dat de regering vier jaar lang onverantwoordelijk met geld heeft gesmeten. Ahmadinejad zou zo de motor van de hoge inflatie zijn.

Begrotingstekort

Ondanks de hoge olieprijzen is het Iraanse begrotingstekort groter dan ooit. De president heeft bovendien ook geput uit een reservefonds dat een voorganger voor magere jaren oprichtte.

De voornaamste oppositieleider, Mir Hossein Mousavi, stelde voor de verkiezingen onder meer dat er niet alleen geld is verkwist, maar ook spoorloos is verdwenen onder Ahmadinejad regering.

De president werd met bijna 63 procent van de stemmen herkozen. De oppositie claimt verkiezingsfraude.
� ANP (via nu.nl)

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Sohran Arabi, 19, died in Evin after arrest at #iranelection protest. Parents to collect his body, his mom is part of "Mothers for Peace"about 12 hours ago from web

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Sohrab becomes the symbol of martyrs of notorious Evin prison. #iranelection #nedaabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

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Mousavi's office shut down w/ warrant. http://parlemannews.com/?n=... #iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web

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Mousavi's office in presidential complex evacuted by officals, Mousavi used the office for about 20 years after Prime Minster. #iranelectionabout 10 hours ago from web

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 13:47 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Een nieuw slachtoffer uit Evin:

https://www.ina-newsagency.com/News-Details.aspx?newsId=24925&back=1
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http://twitter.com/laraabcnews
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http://twitter.com/iranriggedelect

Mousavi's kantoor opgerold:
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http://twitter.com/iranbaan
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http://twitter.com/omidhabibinia

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 13:52 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Nergens staat hoe hij aan zijn eind is gekomen. Kan niet anders dan dat hij gemarteld is.

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 14:04 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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Dat of gebrek aan medische zorg. Wat in feite hetzelfde is.

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Op zondag 5 juli 2009 22:36 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
Net op CNN: groep geestelijken die ook menen dat er gekloot is met de uitslag.

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 14:07 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk, dat lijkt me ook waarschijnlijker: aangevallen op straat en in de cel aan zijn lot overgelaten.

Intens triest dat een land zo met haar kinderen omgaat.

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Accused of spying: journalist Iason Athanasiadis tells of his time in Iranian jail
For 18 days, journalist Iason Athanasiadis was held in Iran's feared Evin prison, accused of spying for Britain. Now for the first time he can tell his story.

The slap across my jaw from behind me made my ears sting red with anger and embarrassment. I was being punished for daring to glance around the room where I was being questioned - accused of being a spy for Britain.

A few days earlier I had been brought, blindfolded, to the heart of Evin Prison, to begin what my captors believed would be the simple process of establishing my guilt. I was told to sit down, and keep facing the bare wall in front of me, before my blindfold was removed.

On a sheet of official notepaper I was to scribble answers to my interrogator's questions. What had I been doing in the days since the disputed Iranian election? Who were my contacts? Who had I interviewed and what had they told me?

When he stepped outside to talk to intelligence ministry colleagues, I briefly craned my neck to see whether the interrogation suite was equipped with a camera. It was a mistake: quick as a flash the official was back, and I was being punished for my disobedience.

My face still smarting, I whirled round to confront him. It was a visceral reaction and the only time in a week of almost daily interrogations that I stared straight into the face of one of my captors. What I saw was not reassuring. A scruffy white-flecked beard, a contemptuous mouth curling to reveal a flash of gold fillings, and eyes fixed at me in white anger.

"Didn't I tell you never to turn around?" he snapped. "Now turn away from me."

My first interrogator was like that. Sometimes his carefully cultivated voice oozed false sympathy. Occasionally, his solicitousness appeared downright sarcastic. When I refused to reveal the names of my Iranian contacts, he assured me that they need not fear. "They are fellow Iranian citizens like myself, Mr Iason," he purred. "Why would I ever hurt my own flesh and blood?"

At other times he flew into blind rages, prodding me aggressively in the back while making a point - perhaps about the perfidy of supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the presidential candidate who is still disputing the outcome of the election.

He may have been angry because one of his female relatives had been struck by a stone during the rioting. Or perhaps he was simply angry because I represented the West.

"You think you're treated so badly," he snapped at me, "but what is our treatment in London or Heathrow? Every time in that airport it is four or five hours interrogation for us."

In fact my background is more complex. Born in Greece to historian parents who met at Oxford University - my father English, my mother Greek - my childhood was spent surrounded by the paraphernalia of the East. I am a citizen of both Greece and Britain, but have spent little time in the UK.

At university I studied Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, then worked in Egypt, Syria and Yemen as a journalist - before moving to Iran in 2004, to study for an MA.

I was there in 2005 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept from nowhere to win the presidency, and I returned to Tehran last month as an accredited journalist to watch him apparently sweep the 2009 election again.

Tehran was a city on edge on election day, and in the days that followed smoke and teargas mingled with cloud from the unseasonally stormy weather. But the following Wednesday I had to leave, with just hours to spare on my seven day visa. Just past passport control came the moment that every reporter dreads. "Please follow me," said a man wearing a brown shirt and jacket. "You won't be travelling tonight."

Two of his colleagues quickly appeared. One flashed me a threatening grin as he shook my hand; the other just regarded me with contempt. "Where are we going?" I demanded. They had no arrest warrant. "For a long talk," the first man crooned.

Disappearing into the clutches of the intelligence ministry was not a desirable prospect. I had to get word out of my arrest. I dropped on to the floor, hung on tight to my camera and laptop bags and began shouting that I was a Greek journalist being placed under arrest.

My guards' violent response - putting me into a neck hold while they hauled me off, punching all the way - produced screams of pain which resounded around the terminal, but at least my detention had been noticed.

I was driven straight to Evin Prison, the b�te noire of liberal Iranian dissidents. Its current guests include pro-Mousavi politicians, intellectuals, activists and a growing number of journalists. But I was the first non-Iranian journalist taken there in living memory. In arresting me, the Iranians had broken through a psychological barrier. Soon afterwards they would pick up a 23 year old French teacher, also accusing her of espionage.

Old Mercedes buses trundled through the metal gates, carrying tired and bloodied protesters who had been beaten and then arrested. But I was not destined for their overcrowded cells. Instead, I was blindfolded before being taken into a windowless building: Evin's notorious Section 209, the part of the prison wholly controlled by the Intelligence Ministry.

My questioning over the next three weeks was haphazard: my interrogators seemed puzzled by me and my grasp of Farsi, and wholly ignorant of my activities during the three years I had lived, with official blessing, in Iran. Gradually their questions became less specific and more philosophical - and, as the violence against me ceased, time became my greatest enemy.

In a cell which remained brightly lit 24 hours a day, I was allowed no reading material, no radio and no other kind of distraction - except a well-thumbed copy of the Koran.

Inside it I discovered an aphorism written in Arabic: "Shackled in chains without guilt; except a tendency towards the fields of jihad." On the wall, the same hand had written: "I seek recourse in Allah from idiots and stupidity."

Eventually, as my interrogators conceded that perhaps I was not, after all, a spy, I was moved to one of Evin's prisoner processing centres. Rows of blindfolded men sat cross-legged in corridors, some facing the wall, as officials dashed in and out of offices or pulled prisoners out for questioning.

I saw men in the communal showers, heard the hubbub of voices from interrogation rooms and noted the doorways of officials' carpeted rooms, a jumble of slippers and sandals. Intelligence officers pored over surveillance photos from the demonstrations, trying to identify repeat offenders.

Then, late on July 5, the door of my cell clicked open. Three jailers stood there. "It's over," one of them said.

Exhilarated, I kissed all three before being led, blindfolded again, past rows of my fellow inmates' cell and through the administrative section - to be handed back my clothes, my telephone and my laptop.

In the police station at the gate of Evin crowds of rioters, criminals and over-perfumed prostitutes swathed in chadors waited. I was photographed, fingerprinted and taken into a car. My guard for the trip to the airport was the portly man who had manhandled me on the night of my arrest. He flashed me a reconciliatory smile.

The streets to the airport were gridlocked with traffic and all protest appeared to have died down.

I was met by the Greek ambassador, Nikos Garilidis, whose intervention helped speed my release. But the moment he left, the atmosphere changed - and I found myself arrested again.

Before the officials could take my telephone this time, I called Mr Garilidis, who was furious. I had to spend a further night in a jail cell at the airport, followed by more negotiations next day - until I was finally safely on board an Iran Air flight to Dubai.

As I accepted a plastic-wrapped rose from a headscarfed stewardess, I wondered if I would ever dare to return to Tehran. That was what my interrogators had asked me, too - but my ambivalent answer had disappointed them.

"You shouldn't be so negative about your experience," the senior interrogator said.

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 15:51 schreef Zith het volgende:
"You shouldn't be so negative about your experience," the senior interrogator said.

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 15:54 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Tja, maar wat gebeurt er nu? Naast de gebrekkige nieuwsvoorziening heb ik nu toch ook niet het idee dat er nog veel gebeurt. Behalve dan dat de dictatuur de touwtjes aantrek en waarschijnlijk binnenkort er koppen gaan rollen in het 'hervormingskamp'.

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Breaking News: Ayatl. Rafsanjani will lead Fri Prayers on Jul 17. Green movement is planning 2 attend. #iranelection13 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s Fatwa

Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s Fatwa: an Unfair Supreme Leader is Illegitimate

By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 12 July 2009

[TEHRAN BUREAU] In a very important development, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the most senior cleric living in Iran, and one of the top two* marja’ taghlid (source of emulation) in Shiite Islam, issued a series of Fatwas, calling the Supreme Leader illegitimate and saying that he was working with the government against religion. Montazeri has called on people to take action against this injustice, even if they have to pay a heavy price for it.

Ayatollah Motazeri, who has long been one of the most outspoken critics of Iran’s hard-liners, issued the Fatwas in response to a letter that Dr. Mohsen Kadivar, a progressive cleric and a former student of his, wrote asking for answers to several pointed questions. (Dr. Kadivar was jailed a few years ago for his outspoken criticism of the hard-liners and now lives in the United States.)

The letter congratulates the Grand Ayatollah on the occasion of last week’s anniversary of the birth of Imam Ali, the Shiites’ first Imam, and a cousin and a son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammad. The letter says that the anniversary has fallen at a time when peaceful protests against rigged elections have been met by injustice by the government, which has resulted in tens of deaths, hundreds of injured, and thousands of arrests — all carried out in the name of Islam and Shiism by those who use Imam Ali’s name but take the path of his enemies instead.

The letters continues,

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 22:47 schreef speknek het volgende:
Eh, wauw. Zou dit echt waar zijn?

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 22:50 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Als dit waar is...

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 22:58 schreef MoltiSanti het volgende:

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WTSHTF

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 22:59 schreef Hukkie het volgende:

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Hmm, ben redelijk thuis in internet termen, maar WTSHTF ken ik nog niet?

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 23:06 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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When The Shit Hits The Fan?

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Op zondag 12 juli 2009 14:04 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:

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Dat of gebrek aan medische zorg. Wat in feite hetzelfde is.

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(12 July 2009) Iranian authorities have informed the family of Sohrab Aarabi, 19, that he died of gunshot wounds to his heart, 26 days after he disappeared during a demonstration on 15 June, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today.

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U.S. worried about American scholar detained in Iran

Reuters
Monday, July 13, 2009 4:31 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States called on Iran on Monday to release U.S. citizen Kian Tajbakhsh and said it was "deeply concerned" about the scholar, who was detained in Tehran last week and has previously been accused of spying.

Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American who holds a doctorate in urban planning from Columbia University, was arrested by Iranian authorities in May 2007, charged with spying and then released after more than four months in Tehran's Evin prison.

It was not clear why Tajbakhsh was detained last week.

Iran has sought to crush demonstrations after its disputed June 12 presidential election, which defeated candidate Mirhossein Mousavi says was rigged in favor of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian authorities have accused foreigners of fomenting the demonstrations.

In 2007, Tajbakhsh was one of several Iranian Americans who were jailed by Iran and became pawns in the strained relations between Tehran and Washington. Iran does not recognize dual nationality.

The United States, which cut diplomatic ties with Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is to generate electricity so it can export more oil and gas.

"We're deeply concerned (about) reports that an Iranian-American scholar has been unjustly detained in Iran," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

"We have urged the Iranian authorities to immediately release Kian Tajbakhsh, as well as return the passports of all Americans being kept in Iran on groundless charges, he added, citing Iranian American graduate student Esha Momeni.

Momeni visited Tehran to research a master's thesis on the women's rights movement in Iran and was arrested on October 15 on a traffic violation. According to Kelly, she has been barred from leaving the country since her release from prison in November.

(Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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Young Election Protester Buried in Tehran
By Robert Mackey
This image of Sohrab Aarabi, a 19-year-old protester who was buried on Monday, was uploaded to TwitPic with the caption: “We will never forget you.”

Iran’s opposition movement consecrated another martyr on Monday, with the funeral of a 19-year-old named Sohrab Aarabi, whose family just discovered on Saturday that he had died last month of a gunshot wound to the heart. Mr. Aarabi had been missing since the huge opposition rally in Tehran on June 15, which was followed by clashes between opposition protesters and Basij militia members during which several people were shot and killed.

On Monday, bloggers posted tributes to Mr. Aarbai online. This video recounts the story of his disappearance and shows his mother asking for information about him outside the gates of Evin prison before his death was announced and then crying inconsolably over his body during his funeral:

Bloggers using Twitter added the tag #Sorhab to many of their updates on the post-election turmoil, alongside the tag #Neda, indicating that he has become, like Neda Agha-Soltan, a martyr.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based group, explained that news of Mr. Aarabi’s death was apparently withheld from his family until a sensitive anniversary had passed:

Mr. Aarabi’s mother, Parvin Fahimi, a member of the Mothers for Peace organization, tried repeatedly to get information about his situation, taking his photograph to prisons, courts and other addresses. Finally, on 11 July, after the protests commemorating the “18 Tir” student demonstrations in 1999, the family was summoned by the Revolutionary Court and referred to the Investigatory Bureau (Agahi), and asked to identify Sohrab from among several photographs of corpses. According to family members interviewed by the Campaign, his body had arrived at the coroner’s office on 19 June, five days after his disappearance.

A spokesman for the human-rights group, Hadi Ghaemi, demanded an investigation into the death and the delay in notifying the family, asking: “If Sohrab was shot on the street on 15 June, why was it recorded by the coroner only on 19 June?”
Sohrab Aarabi on his 19th birthday.

On the evening of Monday, June 15, when Mr. Aarabi went missing, members of the Basij militia were filmed shooting into a crowd of protesters during clashes near Tehran’s Azadi Square. Within hours, graphic video of wounded and dead protesters being carried from the scene appeared online.

As my colleague Robert Worth wrote in The New York Times on Monday “The reports of Mr. Arabi’s death renewed widespread claims that the number of protesters killed during the unrest was much higher than the official government figure of 20.”

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran emphasized that the treatment of Mr. Aarabi’s family has heightened those fears:

The lack of transparency and calculated delay in releasing the information about Aarabi’s unexplained death only raises anxieties about scores of others who are among the disappeared as well as those who have been held in incommunicado detention, with no contact to family members or lawyers, many for almost a month. An additional approximately 190 persons were arrested following the most recent demonstrations on 9 July.

nytimes.com

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My interview with Dutch Nova programme (Netherlands) http://bit.ly/v1QuF #iranelection

Dutch Nova programme on Iran july 09 2009

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Op dinsdag 14 juli 2009 14:28 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Ik vind het wel tof als al die geestelijken mekaar gaan dood fatwa-en.
Dan lost het probleem zichzelf uiteindelijk vanzelf op.

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Op dinsdag 14 juli 2009 14:30 schreef ASroma het volgende:

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tis net world of warcraft

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Iran's Mir-Hossein Mousavi planning new political group
An aide says Mousavi, who was defeated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in last month's disputed election, is forming a political 'front' that will have most of the rights of a political party.
By Borzou Daragahi
9:54 AM PDT, July 14, 2009
Reporting from Beirut -- Iran's leading opposition figure plans to forge a new reformist political front that would challenge the country's dominant conservatives, his top aide said today, as the country's political camps brace for a possible confrontation during Friday prayers this week.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi's top advisor, Ali-Reza Beheshti, said reformists would pursue their case against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by forming a political front that will have all the rights of a political party except being able to call for rallies.

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No time for committees or new political parties, if Iran accepts Ahmadi now it is all over. Keep raising your voices shout NO #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

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It is very important Sea of Green Turn up 4 Friday Prayers, chant Rasfsanjani/Mousavi names in support. Keep the protest alive #iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2009 12:27 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
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Op woensdag 15 juli 2009 12:50 schreef SeLang het volgende:

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Ik heb het nog gedacht toen Michael jackson stierf: dit is de doodslag voor de Iraanse opstand.
Wellicht een moordcomplot door Iraanse mullahs?

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Op donderdag 16 juli 2009 16:43 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Morgen dus vrij belangrijke dag als Rafsanjani het vrijdaggebed zal gaan leiden.

Twee berichten die ik vandaag tegenkwam:

Hoofd nucleaire programma zou ontslag genomen hebben:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/a(...)l_iran_nuclear_chief

Nog een slachtoffer:

http://iranian009.blogfa.com/post-31.aspx#iranelection

reden om dit topic vol te blijven posten

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Top Iran cleric criticizes hard-liners in sermon

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (AP) – 13 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran — One of Iran's top clerics criticized hard-liners at the main Islamic prayers Friday, saying the clerical leadership must clear up doubts over the disputed presidential election and should release opposition supporters arrested in the postelection crackdown.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who sits on two powerful clerical ruling bodies, made the comments during his sermon before tens of thousands of opposition supporters, with opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi sitting in the front row.

The opposition packed the prayer hall to make a show of strength at the weekly Islamic prayers, which broadcast live on radio and are one of Iran's most important and symbolic political platforms. It was Rafsanjani's first time delivering the sermon since the June 12 election. In recent weeks, hard-line clerics have been using the sermon to tell Iranians to fall in line behind Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and accept the election victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Rafsanjani urged unity and appeared to blame hard-liners for disrupting unity by not listening to the controversy over the election, which was declared a victory for Ahmadinejad but which Mousavi claims to have won.

"Doubt has been created (about the election results)," Rafsanjani said. "There are two currents. One doesn't have any doubt and is moving ahead with their job. And there are a large portion of the wise people who say they have doubts. We need to take action to remove this doubt."

He said the turmoil following the elections "was a bitter period ... all were the losers." He criticized hard-liners for the crackdown on postelection protests, saying they should show sympathy for those arrested.

"Sympathy must be offered to those who suffered from the events that occurred and reconcile them with the ruling system. This is achievable. We need to placate them," he told the worshippers in the Tehran University prayer hall.

"It's not necessary ... to keep individuals in jail. Let them join their families. We should not let enemies criticize or laugh at us ... for keeping our people in jail," he said.

Mousavi and his supports say Ahmadinejad's victory was fraudulent, and hundreds of thousands marched in the streets in the weeks after the election in support of him. But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who sits at the top of Iran's clerical leadership, declared the results valid and ordered a stop to protests. Police, elite Republican Guards and Basiji militiamen launched a fierce crackdown on protesters in which hundreds were arrested and at least 20 killed — though human rights groups say the figure could be several times that official toll.

The opposition has managed to hold only one significant protest since — on July 9. But they are hoping their mass turnout at Friday's prayers will prove their staying power.

Tens of thousands — mostly pro-opposition but also some government backers — packed the prayer hall and shouted competing slogans. Hard-liners made traditional chants of "death to America," while opposition supporters countered with "death to Russia" — a reference to government's ties to Moscow. Many pro-reform worshippers wore green headbands or wristbands or had green prayer rugs — the opposition movement's color.

At the same time, thousands more opposition backers were heading toward Tehran University for a planned rally outside the campus after the prayers, raising fears of a confrontation with security forces or with hard-line militiamen, witnesses said.

Near the university gates, police fired tear gas at Mousavi supporters as they headed for the prayers, witnesses said. They spoke on condition of anonymity fearing government retaliation.

Two pro-reform Web sites reported that a prominent women's rights activist, Shadi Sadr, was beaten by plainclothes militiamen and taken away as she headed toward Tehran University. Sadr was forcible pushed into a car and taken to an unknown location, Mousavi's Web site http://www.mowjcamp.com and a women's activists site http://www.meydaan.com said.

Copyright � 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Op vrijdag 17 juli 2009 12:43 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
AP Update speech Rafsanjani:
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http://www.google.com/hos(...)5G3t4z-jajQD99G54E80

IRAN Tehran, Friday July 17. (26 Tir), Peoples Demonstration - 2

2009-07-17_Tehran_Part 9

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Ppl R converging on Interior Ministry - expecting Mousavi. 1 report he will ask military 2 side w/ ppl. #rafsanjani #Iranelection #Iran12 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Op vrijdag 17 juli 2009 14:01 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Videos die van vandaag zouden zijn:

IRAN Tehran, Friday July 17. (26 Tir), Peoples Demonstration - 2

2009-07-17_Tehran_Part 9

Oxfordgirl:
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I noticed that they were not broadcasting Rafsanjani’s sermon on TV this morning. I headed out, and ended up on the west side of the crowd on Enghelab street at around noon. Right in front of the university there were large crowds of opposition supporters, then thousands more lined the street, but only in the shade (Iranians are experts at using shade — it was at least 90 degrees today).

One first needs to understand how Friday prayers are usually run at Tehran University. For many of the people who went there today, it was probably their first time, so they might think that all of the blockades and cleared streets were because of the occasion. Not so. Every Friday morning the entire Enghelab street from the square west of the University to Vali Asr on the east side of the University is blocked off to traffic. People take chartered buses from all around the city and its suburbs to attend. Anyone can enter the university to hear the sermon, if there is room — you just have to check our bag and any electronic devices. I have done this in the past without any problems and sat through several sermons. The first half of the sermon is religious, the second half is political. If the clergyman who is speaking is more famous, like a Rafsanjani, then thousands more attend. If it is a B-level guy, its more sparse. Woman are free to enter but must sit in a separate section. The sermon is broadcast through loudspeakers within about a mile radius of the University for your listening pleasure.

Today, of course, there were tens of thousands of people outside, with prayer-goers struggling to still go inside. I heard “Marg bar Rusya” and later was told that even “Marg bar Chin” was chanted. I guess the old 1979 slogan “Neither East nor West” still holds. Those sitting inside, the political elite of Iran (sans President), must have heard the crowds outside. Very few police were actually there in the beginning, in the middle of the crowd no less. Conservative-looking men held their young sons by the hand and guided them through this scene. I was wondering if they were going to actually let this continue. Finally, about 12:30, the police started arriving in droves and clearing the streets. Having suffered from a baton blow during a previous event, I left.

Ten minutes later and several blocks south I saw a man bleeding severely from his head on the back of a motorcycle. He was dropped off at a parked ambulance and was given care. He had been lucky and was able to flee the scene after being hit.

I wonder if the tear gas wafted into the University grounds. Reminiscent of the Shah and Carter in Washington D.C., no?

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sry, U cnt see in Farsi 36 high rank IRI military personel arrested last nite - confirmed by trusted source Tehran #iranelection #rafsa ...13 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Op zaterdag 18 juli 2009 12:56 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Ik vind 'dood aan Rusland' mooi. Het is natuurlijk een manier van spreken, een slogan, maar het gaat in tegen de traditionele slogans, tegen de regering. Het regime lijkt zo klein.

2009-07-17_Tehran_Part 107

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Op zondag 19 juli 2009 03:06 schreef HiZ het volgende:
Het punt is natuurlijk dat geen enkel regime dit kan volhouden.

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Op zondag 19 juli 2009 05:57 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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Natuurlijk wel. Bruut geweld. Zo doen ze het in bijvoorbeeld Noord-Korea en Myanmar al jaren succesvol. Ja, je hebt nu de gespleten leiden, iets wat anders is. Maar ook zij kunnen desnoods weggewerkt worden.

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[TEHRAN BUREAU] Three days after Friday prayers, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s sermon continues to make waves. As expected, the reformists and their allies praised the sermon, though some complained that Rafsanjani’s criticism of the status quo should have been stronger. The hardliners, on the other hand, have reacted angrily.

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About 5,000 people gatherd at Vanak Sq, Chanting against regime asking ppl to join them....#iranelection#neda19 minutes ago from web

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Clashes at Baharstan Sq, Army helicopters flying over central Tehran....#iranelection#neda21 minutes ago from web

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+ 10,000 protesters at Vali Asr Sq, Marching toward where Neda was Killed 1 month abo, chanting: "Death to Dictator"....#iranelection#neda22 minutes ago from web

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Heavy Clashes all around Hafte Tir, People still joining the demonstration from north and east of Sq. #iranelection#neda25 minutes ago from web

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yesterday and today protests in Shiraz led to lge number of arrests. #IranElection #Iranless than 20 seconds ago from TweetDeck

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Sky news just reporting what they see on Twitter re protests. I can't get any confirm Tehran. Take dates video pls. #Iranelection #Iran2 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Source Tehran: 'As of today, nobody is in overall charge in Iran. The regime appears to have fractured.' #Iranelection #Iran43 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Op zondag 19 juli 2009 22:38 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Voor de duitstaligen :

Ex Basij lid doet boek open over regiem iran: Dictatuur, verkrachting, mishandeling en moord

voor de Engelstaligen:

Ex Basij lid doet boek open over regiem iran: Dictatuur, verkrachting, mishandeling en moord

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Ahmadinejad's vice president choice rejected

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – 32 mins ago

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader ordered the president, a close ally, to dismiss his controversial choice of a top deputy for making pro-Israeli remarks, the semiofficial media reported Wednesday. The move marked a rare split among the country's top conservatives.

The order is a humiliating setback for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has strongly defended his decision to appoint Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, his son's father-in-law, as his first vice president.

Mashai angered hard-liners in 2008 when he said Iranians were "friends of all people in the world — even Israelis." Mashai was serving as vice president in charge of tourism and cultural heritage at the time. Iran has 12 vice presidents, but the first vice president is the most important because he leads Cabinet meetings in the absence of the president.

Ahmadinejad is already in a crisis over opposition claims he stole last month's presidential election from the pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei strongly backed Ahmadinejad, who is seen as his protege, in that dispute.

"The view of the exalted leader on the removal of Mashai from the post of vice president has been notified to Ahmadinejad in writing," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Wednesday.

It was not immediately clear if Ahmadinejad would cave in to Khamenei's order, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran.

Ali Akbar Javanfekr, top media adviser to Ahmadinejad, said on Tuesday that the president won't change his mind over the controversy.

"The president makes his decisions ... within the framework of his legal powers and on the basis of investigations carried out. Experience has proved that creating baseless controversies won't influence the president's decision," Javanfekr said in his blog. It was unclear if this was before or after the supreme leader's order.

The deputy speaker of the parliament, Mohammad Hasan Aboutorabi-Fard, meanwhile, said that Mashai's dismissal was a decision by the ruling system itself, according to the semiofficial ISNA news.

"Removing Mashai from key posts and the position of vice president is a strategic decision of the system ... Dismissal or resignation of Mashai needs to be announced by the president without any delay," ISNA quoted him as saying late Tuesday.

Pressure has been mounting on Ahmadinejad to remove Mashai from the top post immediately after he appointed the controversial figure to the post Friday.

But nearly the same time as Khamenei was issuing his order late Tuesday, Ahmadinejad vowed to keep Mashai as his first vice president.

"Mr. Mashai is a supporter of the position of the supreme leader and a pious, caring, honest and creative caretaker for Iran ... Why should he resign?" the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying late Tuesday. "Mashai has been appointed as first vice president and continues his activities in the government."

Iran's state television didn't report Ahmadinejad's comments supporting his deputy. A conservative Web site said TV officials had orders from higher officials not to do so.

Mashai also angered many of Iran's top clerics in 2007 when he attended a ceremony in Turkey where women performed a traditional dance. Conservative interpretations of Islam prohibit women from dancing.

He ran into trouble again in 2008 when he hosted a ceremony in Tehran in which several women played tambourines and another one carried the Quran to a podium to recite verses from the Muslim holy book.

The criticism is a change of focus for hard-liners, who have spent the last few weeks lambasting Mousavi and his supporters for challenging the presidential election. On Saturday, hard-liners accused Rafsanjani of defying Khamenei by using his sermon to encourage opposition supporters to continue their protests.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2009 14:46 schreef AlexanderDeGrote het volgende:
Nu lijkt het regime zelf ook onderling ruzie te gaan maken. Prutsers.
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Op vrijdag 24 juli 2009 21:17 schreef Sturmvogel het volgende:
Iemand enig idee hoe de situatie zich de laatste dagen ontwikkeld heeft?

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Protest Amsterdam

Op het Museumplein in Amsterdam is zaterdagmiddag een manifestatie tegen het optreden van het Iraanse regime. Volgens de organisatie zijn er circa tweeduizend deelnemers. De politie houdt het op iets meer dan duizend.

De actievoerders zijn het niet eens met de harde wijze waarop Teheran de protesten van burgers tegen de uitslag van de presidentsverkiezingen heeft aangepakt. Zij spreken van een schending van de mensenrechten.

Andere steden

De manifestatie begon om half een en duurt tot drie uur. Ook in andere steden over de hele wereld zijn zaterdag protesten. Die vinden plaats met steun van onder meer Amnesty Internatonial, Human Rights Watch en Reporters without Borders.

Sinds de omstreden herverkiezing van de uiterst conservatieve president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad op 12 juni is het onrustig in de islamitische republiek. De oppositie beschuldigt de machthebbers van fraude bij de stembusronde. Er zijn massale protesten geweest, maar de autoriteiten hebben die met harde hand de kop ingedrukt.

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RT @WomenOfIran: According2 constitution #iran has no gov now!! since 1/2 of the cabinet is changed. #iranelection http://bit.ly/EuTVjabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

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AN backs off?it's said Culture minister is back.Seems AN didn't know sackings make gov illegit #iranelection http://bit.ly/Ev654about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

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Ahmadi reinstatting minsiters came via Press TV have not confirmed any other sources, should have said. #iranelctonabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

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The semi-official Mehr news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying the two ministers had a dispute with the hardline president over the appointment of Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie as first vice-president for Ahmadinejad's second four-year term.

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CAIRO — The Revolutionary Guard tightened its already powerful hold over Iran during the post-election turmoil, raising alarm among some Iranians that it is transforming the Islamic Republic into a military state.

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On top of its enormous military power, the force in recent years has amassed a network of economic and political power extending to virtually every aspect of life in Iran. Now some fear it has gone beyond protecting the system to dominating it. Even Khamenei may have become overly dependent on the Guards, some experts say.

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Service in the Guard has become a stepping stone to national politics. Ahmadinejad and at least five members of his first term Cabinet are thought to be former Guard officers — including defense, energy, justice and interior. The parliament speaker, many parliament members, Tehran's mayor and the head of the state radio and TV network also are thought to have served in the Guard.

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De eerstvolgende bijeenkomst van zijn aanhangers staat gepland voor donderdag. Dan herdenken zij de mensen die zijn omgekomen tijdens de recente protesten. Mousavi noemt de bijeenkomst 'een test voor de regering'.

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Op maandag 27 juli 2009 19:52 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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http://www.elsevier.nl/we(...)we-protesten-aan.htm

Veertig dagen na de eerste dodelijke demonstraties. Hoe massaal zal het zijn?

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AMSTERDAM/TEHERAN - In tientallen steden wereldwijd is zaterdag geprotesteerd tegen de onderdrukking van de oppositie in Iran.
Honderdduizenden mensen gingen de straat op, onder meer in Den Haag, Amsterdam, Parijs, Berlijn, Londen, Tokio, New York en San Francisco.

De betogers eisten de vrijlating van Irani�rs die na de omstreden stembusgang van 12 juni de straat opgingen en werden opgepakt. Zij riepen westerse regeringen op Iran krachtiger te boycotten.

De protesten maken deel uit van een wereldwijde actie die wordt gesteund door onder meer Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch en Reporters without Borders. "In Iran wordt de grondwet sinds zes weken met voeten getreden", aldus Monika L�ke, hoofd van Amnesty in Duitsland.

De machtsstrijd in de streng-islamitische republiek Iran tussen hardliners en minder radicale politici wordt heviger.

Onder zware druk van de Opperste Leider ayatollah Ali Khamenei, de invloedrijkste man van het land, heeft vicepresident Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie zaterdag zijn functie neergelegd. Khamenei had president Ahmadinejad opgeroepen de vicepresident te ontslaan, maar zover hoefde het niet te komen, meldde het Iraanse persbureau Fars.

Mashaie was omstreden. Hij had vorig jaar als minister van Toerisme verklaard dat Iran bevriend is met iedereen, zelfs met het volk van Isra�l. Een opmerkelijke uitlating, omdat het regime in Teheran Isra�l als aartsvijand ziet.

President Ahmadinejad liet eerder nog weten vast te willen houden aan Mashaie, de vader van zijn schoondochter. Dat legde veel druk op de band tussen Khamenei en de president, die twee handen op een buik waren.

De vraag is nu of de hoogste geestelijk leider nog langer het conservatieve staatshoofd de hand boven het hoofd houdt na hun openlijk uitgevochten meningsverschil.

Khamenei heeft het laatste woord in staatszaken. Volgens analisten wordt hij zelden tegengesproken. Mensenrechtenorganisaties beweren dat honderden mensen opgepakt zijn sinds de stembusgang, onder wie politieke activisten en academici.

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Op maandag 27 juli 2009 22:12 schreef Zienswijze het volgende:
Iran heeft een rijke historie aan cultuur. Ooit was het 1 van de machtigste landen van de wereld. Perzie heeft een aantal hoogontwikkelde beschavingen gehad in het verleden.

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Op maandag 27 juli 2009 23:56 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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Totaal niet boeiend. Dat tweeduizend jaar geleden op dezelfde plek mensen woonden die veel andere volkeren wisten te onderwerpen, is in z'n geheel niet relevant voor Irani�rs die op het moment demonstreren.