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Civil Unrest in Iran
Tehran is dark, cold tonight, I can hear screams. scary #iranelection
– A tweet from mohamadreza one hour ago
I’ve been reading the news about the Iranian elections with growing angst. I find a few things particularly disturbing.
Unrest in Iran
- Where is the mainstream media’s coverage of what’s going on in Iran? CNN has one minor article with 3 pictures on the topic. The article makes the entire situation seem like a small incident which will blow over by tomorrow.
- Cell phone networks seem to have been down following the election, and social networking sites like Facebook were blocked. The entire thing reeks of foul play.
Thanks to Behdad for posting the first real news I saw about the elections. Your post grabbed my eye when it hit Planet GNOME.
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Oh look, you have a blog. That you update. Randomly googling people’s names does have benefits!
Yahoo! helps me keep up with news as well as e-mail. I’ve been following the Iranian elections for weeks with their articles. Here’s the latest article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090614/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election
Hey Leora,
Thanks for Yahoo! link.
I’ve been following the news since last night on Twitter. While Twitter is often unreliable, it has the most pictures and videos straight from Iran which is a big plus. (There’s also been pretty decent coverage of the riots from the Huffington Post and BBC.)
I’ll hopefully get around to replying to your email this morning. I wanted to reply last night, but as you noticed something else came up which I wanted to track.