Iran Uprising Blogging (Friday July 10)

I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts, or follow me on Twitter. Send me instant messages at [e-mail] or njpitney on AIM. Scroll down for news related to the front-page headlines. Local Iran time is 8 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time.

(Blogging will be light today, HuffPost is moving offices in DC.)

10:57 AM ET -- Basiji rush the cameraman. Video apparently from yesterday:

10:15 AM ET -- Tehran police chief: few arrests made. AP:

The head of Tehran's police says few arrests were made in opposition protests that erupted in the Iranian capital in an opposition attempt to revive street demonstrations over the country's disputed election.

Police chief Azizullah Rajabzadeh says those arrested in Thursday's protests were involved in "damaging public property and chanting," according to a report Friday in the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Rajabzadeh gives no exact number of detainees, saying only that they were "few," adding, "there was no widespread campaign of arrests."

Thousands marched in various parts of the capital on Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator." In some places, clashes erupted as police fired tear gas and charges demonstrators with batons.

9:53 AM ET -- The rooftop project. Chas Danner, who has been doing all sorts of yeoman's work on Iran, today posts the most comprehensive set of videos capturing the haunting and inspiring "Allah-o Akbar" chants that are heard around Iran each evening.

This is meant to be the most complete possible collection of recordings of nighttime protest in Iran since the beginning of the uprising. Its goal is to locate and profile at least one video for each night primarily focusing on the nightly chanting of Allah-o-Akbar from the rooftops, whenever that footage is available. Some of these videos have not been widely seen until now.

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Go check it out.

9:42 AM ET -- Big demonstration outside Iranian embassy in London. Photos here.

9:35 AM ET -- Iran criticizes Italy's suppression of protesters. "Iran summons the Italian Ambassador to Tehran Alberto Bradanini in protest against the violent suppression of anti-G8 protesters. Bradanini was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday to hear Tehran's concerns about the 'violent suppression of justice-seeking protesters by the Italian police.'" No comment.

9:30 AM ET -- Obama: "Further steps" needed if Iran talks fail.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the G8 message to Iran was that if it failed to change its nuclear defiance by a September deadline "we need to take further steps."

"We're not going to just wait indefinitely," Obama told a news conference at the end of a G8 summit in Italy. He insisted, however, that it had never been the intent for the summit to apply new sanctions on Tehran.

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Useful Resources

News: NIAC Insight | Kodoom
Translations: Google Translate | TehranBroadcast.com | Translate4Iran
Helping Iranians use the web: Haystack | Tor Project (English & Farsi) | IranHelp.org (Farsi)
Demonstrations: Facebook | Sharearchy | WhyWeProtest
Activism: Avaaz.org | National Iranian American Council

Comments

[rb00]

Inside the Iranian Crackdown

For Mr. Moradani, the biggest shock during the election turmoil came in his personal life. He had recently gotten engaged to a young woman from a devout, conservative family. A week into the protests, he says, his fiancée called him with an ultimatum. If he didn't leave the Basij and stop supporting Mr. Ahmadinejad, he recalls her saying, she wouldn't marry him.

He told her that was impossible. "I suffered a real emotional blow," he says. "She said to me, 'Go beat other people's children then,' and 'I don't want to have anything to do with you,' and hung up on me."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124726981104525893.html#mod%3Dtodays_us_page_one%26articleTabs%3Darticle

[wereeverywhere]

Good for her. That's sad but beautiful- go beat other people's children indeed.

[anti-tazi]

How to crash the IRGC website designed to identify the protestors:
gerdab.ir

I,m not gone get technical and give you a long lecture on Cache, proxies but here you connect to that Gerdab site thru a yahoo or google cache snapshot to use their online tools to attack the site & it,s guaranteed. I just did it and it keeps rebooting.

there are few ways we did it thru yahoo or goog search ,dictionary,tutor, translation but here is the simplified version 1 ;

1-use search tool to bypass & paralyze the site, copy the link

http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.gerdab.ir/fa/pages/?cid=407


Enter it here;

http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/

[anti-tazi]

Photo essay from Berkeley:


Bay Area's next gathering in solidarity with Iranians inside Iran is scheduled for Sunday, July 12th when Joan Baez is performs in Stern Grove, San Francisco. Wear green and come early. See Shorts' blog on the concert.


http://iranian.com/main/albums/sea-green

[rb00]

Ron Buitenhuis - WE BELIEVE (Neda's Song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssrjHeIIYwU&eurl=

[am5454]

And Pitney crawls back into his hole of obscurity. There, he will hopefully he will open up a book about -- reporting -- . To his surprise, it requires a little more than cutting & pasting twitters.

[wereeverywhere]

While your beloved IRI arrests journalists and bloggers and imposes a total media clamp down, you ridicule someone trying to get word out. I'm sorry for you that the Ministry of Love isn't able to stop all communications.

[anti-tazi]

As an Iranian, I can categorically say that Nico has done a superb job and perhaps in some ways has shaped the course of history and the future destinies of my young nephews and nieces in Iran . And forever, I'm grateful for that.

What had you done for the plight of Iranians lately? Please find another country to exploit/destroy to do your anti-imperialism endeavors. I wish you success as long as you stay away from my country.


The 3 Books Ahmadinejad/Khameni Doesn’t Want You to Read


Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Afary does a spectacular job explaining, as well as detailing, sexual attitudes and practices from the 19th to the 21st century. Her account gives an excellent feel for how Iranian society works and how that has changed under the impact of modern times. Plus, her detailed research makes the account much more credible than some of the highly readable stories from Iranian-Americans about personal life in modern Iran.


2. Lost Wisdom: Abbas Milani


3 Peter Chelkowski and Hamid Dabashi, Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran, (New York University Press, 1999).

[wereeverywhere]

REgarding Lost Wisdom by Abbas Milani. Here's part of the description form Amazon.com.

"This book challenges the hitherto accepted theory that modernity and its related concepts of democracy and freedom are Western in essence. It also demonstrates that Iran and the West have more that brings them together than separates them in their search for such modern ideals as rationalism, the rule of law, and democracy."

[unitron]

"And Pitney crawls back into his hole of obscurity. "

If only you'd do the same.

[Kathy Rezai]

Nico has done a great job of keeping people who care informed. Question is why are you on his blog? Do you see a hole that you can crawl into?

[CaptainHowdy2]

He's done nothing but hype up a bunch of BS. Why not report on the REAL coup in Honduras?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6652940.ece

How about 19 year old Isis Murillo that was k-i-l-l-e-d by soldiers?

We'll never forget Neda but we've never even heard of Isis.

You people are a joke.

[athenasword]

I'm sure you can find a suitable cave....

[rb00]

Twitter and its creators are worthy of being considered for the Nobel Peace Prize for the role they played during the recent civil unrest in Iran, according to a former U.S. national security adviser.

http://www.worldboxx.com/twitter-suggested-for-nobel-peace-prize/

[evagorman]

There is a link above showing part of the protests in London on Thurs. which was the 10 year anniversary of the student uprising in Iran. The demonstrations in London have been there across the street from the Iranian Embassy protesting every day since the day after the election.
Thursday's turnout was the largest yet with at least 2,500 people in attendance. At 8 pm we all released black and green balloons, and at 9pm when it ended, they handed out Persian pastries. I received a green rubber "where is my vote?" bracelet which I cherish.
What was interesting about Thursday's demonstration was that there were three groups who kept separated from one another: the royalists, with flags draped on their shoulders; the mujahedeen (spelling), which I gather is a militant Islamic socialist group with a female leader who has evidently elected herself the president of Iran; and then there was the largest, youngest group where I was.
Luckily these groups seem to have only a little friction between them.
It was a very moving experience and I'm glad I was able to share it with others of like mind.

[evagorman]

Don't know where Nico is, either. God knows he deserves a break but... sigh... Well, here is some interesting news: http://iranquest.com/blog/?p=7705
IRAN: Mehdi Karroubi warns of ‘unimaginable consequences’

[MikaS]

Thanks, it's hard to find any news out of Iran today.

[athenasword]

Thanks.

[SharpDressedMan]

Who does the Iranian Foreign Ministry think they are fooling?

Does the Iranian leadership want to enter the 21st Century?

[LucyBelle97]

No, they're very happy in the 16th century.

[Kathy Rezai]

Can Iran's protesters keep momentum?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j50pU34VHBaCQoVnsymbfGyOKGtgD99BOPP03

[am5454]

lol. why don't you go to Iran and protest?

[Kathy Rezai]

Are you?

[Kathy Rezai]

Where's Nico? Hope he hasn't given up.

[jan4insight]

Maybe he's taking a break? He deserves it - but I wish we knew when he'll be back!

[athenasword]

Not sure... I imagine he'll be back. Perhaps might tell us Monday about the future of the live-blog. I am hoping he'll still continue to follow the events and provide updates, though I think the every day live-blog may be a bit too much since the news is so sparse for now...

[wrender]

Have any of you heard of this one? Medvedev shows off a sample of the newly minted WORLD CURRENCY at the G8 summit.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeFVNYQpByU4

You'd think this would be worthy of mainstream attention.

[jan4insight]

I won't worry until I start seeing bar codes on all the stop signs.

[forpeace]

It'sReally­Frustratin­gThatHPKee­psdeleting­post.

TooMuchOfF­reedomOfSp­eech!!!!!!­!!!

I'mOutOfHere.

NotToMention Nico isSleepingToo!

[forpeace]

Wake up Nico!

[anti-tazi]

July 25: Global Day of Action for Human Rights in Iran

(July 8, 2009) Human rights activists are organizing a coordinated Global Day of Action on July 25, 2009 to demand respect for the human rights of the Iranian people and to demonstrate worldwide solidarity with the civil rights movement in Iran. Major human rights organizations have sponsored the event.

Around the world, people will gather in solidarity with the Iranian people following over a month of intensified state repression against citizens peacefully demonstrating for their rights. Many have been murdered in the streets, many hundreds have been beaten and injured, and at least 2,000 are thought to have been detained.

The Global Day of Action is a not affiliated with any partisan political agenda, and is aimed at securing the internationally recognized rights of the Iranian people.

That the international community uphold the Iranian people’s human rights as a matter of international concern, and that the UN Secretary General should immediately appoint a delegation to travel to Iran to investigate the fate of prisoners as well as many disappeared persons;
The immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, including journalists, students, and civil society activists;

For more information:
• Contact Hadi Ghaemi; phone [phone], email :united4ir­an@gmail.c­om
• Visit www.united4iran.org for the latest information and list of participating cities
http://united4iran.org/media/