Ahmadinejad wins Iran presidential election

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[Cheetah]

Ahmedinejad's web site and the official gov news site have been knocked out by protesters around the world.  If you want to help knock down Khameini's web site, click on linky.   

http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/?url=http://www.khamenei.ir/&refresh=1

[Q-Man]

Ahmedinejad's web site and the official gov news site have been knocked out by protesters around the world.  If you want to help knock down Khameini's web site, click on linky.   

http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/?url=http://www.khamenei.ir/&refresh=1

Hey, that was fun!

[allat]

Ahmedinejad's web site and the official gov news site have been knocked out by protesters around the world.  If you want to help knock down Khameini's web site, click on linky.   

http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/?url=http://www.khamenei.ir/&refresh=1

 

[ExHindu]

Does that rebooting every second stop the site from working if enough people do it of something?

[Cheetah]

Does that rebooting every second stop the site from working if enough people do it of something?

Yep.   

[IsLame]

Does that rebooting every second stop the site from working if enough people do it of something?

presumably it overworks their server , and makes it less easy for the gov. to spread misinformation  

[osmanthus]

Yes. It's basically a DDOS attack. I'm not sure but I think knowingly participating in such attacks is actually illegal, so of course I wont be clicking that link.  

Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html

and Tehran Bureau http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/13/alerts-from-tehran/

Looks like the Tehran Bureau has been taken offline.

[ExHindu]

Cant we do it for the BNP website too then?

[allat]

Looks like the Tehran Bureau has been taken offline.

It seems to keep going up and down - either because of malicious attacks, but I think they're just getting A LOT of traffic there. I've seen them linked to by all the major news and blog sites, people are posting links to them on facebook, in comments, etc.

[J4m3z]

Ahmedinejad's web site and the official gov news site have been knocked out by protesters around the world.  If you want to help knock down Khameini's web site, click on linky.   

http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/?url=http://www.khamenei.ir/&refresh=1

Keep reloading their website? What will that do?

[osmanthus]

It has already been explained, James.

[osmanthus]

Cant we do it for the BNP website too then?

Yes, and they can do it to us. 

It seems to keep going up and down - either because of malicious attacks, but I think they're just getting A LOT of traffic there. I've seen them linked to by all the major news and blog sites, people are posting links to them on facebook, in comments, etc.

Quite likely that it's just due to the traffic then. They probably have a moderate bandwidth limit on their hosting or something.

The Huff has some interesting comments though. These particularly stood out:

"[We] are still safe, but to tell you the truth, all of us are feeling sick of what we have to see on streets these days. This afternoon, [we] saw five policemen attack a middle age lady. They beat her brutally, with no mercy. She tried to escape with her young daughter but they got her. I stopped and tried to help her, but three men in civilian clothes attacked my car, and I had to drive away because [my daughter] was with me.

I just talked to my relatives in Tehran. The atmosphere is just like in 1978-79. Sporadic demonstrations continue throughout the city with tires and other objects burning in the streets to dissipate the tear gas. People have left their houses' doors unlocked for demonstrators to have a safe haven to escape when the riot police attacks them. The solidarity and unity of the people is amazing. Luckily, Mousavi and Karoobi have both asked people to continue their peaceful opposition to the massive rigging of their votes. The regime has made a strategic mistake as it appears that people this time are not going to relent.

[PeruvianSkies]

There's a forum set up for Iranians called Anonymous Iran - Why we Protest which is spreading a lot information including pictures and videos.

Iran Election Twitter Map - http://www.mapchannels.com/twittermap/iranelection.htm

More tweets - http://iran.twazzup.com/

[PeruvianSkies]

This is a post from the Anonymous Iran forum I posted above. It's from a user called NiteOwl (I'm not sure if it's the same user on youtube and this forum called Nite Owlll who is an ex-muslim, can anyone let me know if it is?), it is a very informative post and well worth a read-

The Green Brief


Hi,

I'm Josh Shahryar AKA NiteOwl and I've been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources and have tried maximally to avoid listening to media banter. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my tweets to have happened in the past day and in the past week in Iran. Remember, this is all from tweets. There is NOTHING included here that is not from a reliable tweet. No news media outlets have been used in the compilation of this short brief as I would like to call it.

These are some of the happenings that I can positively confirm:

1. During the last protest in Tehran, several policemen have been spotted by protesters who were wearing green bands which is the color of the revolution. The policemen have told them candidly that they support them.

2. During the protests, on several occasions, Baseejis who have attacked peaceful protesters have been arrested on the spot by the police. This seems to have occured in several spots, yet it hasn't been a crackdown of sorts. A few cases only!

3. Several Baseeji militiamen have been spotted laying down their arms and going home after being asked to interfere with the protesters.


4. By far the biggest threat people are facing right now are plainclothesmen. They seem to be everywhere and are targeting people who are not in groups. These men have been mostly linked with Ansar e Hezbollah. They are responsible for beating people up, arresting people, threatening protesters, arresting reformists from their homes and such.

5. So far, it has been confirmed that 15 people in Tehran and 32 people around the country have been killed. Hundreds more have been injured and in excess of 800 people have been detained. Among these there are dozens of reformists. Most of these arrests have been made by the notorious plainclothesmen mentioned above.

6. During yesterday's protests, mullahs have been spotted joining rallies within Tehran and in several other cities. No one could confirm what the status of these Mullahs was or is within the clerical society, but their numbers have been very visible this time.

7. Protests have occurred not just in Tehran yesterday, but in Ahvaz, Mashhad, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and EVEN Qom.

8. Pro-Ahmadinejad protesters' numbers have been greatly exaggerated by the state media in comparison to Mousavi's supporters' numbers. In reality, Pro-Ahmadinejad protesters were only a pocket full of people. Most of these people have been identified by other protesters as either people who work at government offices or people who were brought from the countryside.

9. After downplaying the protests for days, the state-run media has finally started to announce news of the events a little more accurately.

10. Text Messaging is still down in Iran and internet is extremely slow. People are unable to get satellite channels on their televisions. At the same time, police and plainclothesmen are going door to door and taking away people's satellite dish antennas.

11. Mohsen Rezayee, one of the candidates, is going to declare his support for a reelection tomorrow. The fourth candidate, Mahdi Karoubi openly joined yesterday's rally.

12. A group of prominent officials within the Ministry of Interior have written a letter to the Guardian Council declaring that they have witnessed widespread irregularities within the voting and counting processes during the election. They have asked this matter to be investigated fully.

13. As of today, not a single report of the military's intervention into the peaceful protests has been established. Not a single one.

14. Khatami and Mousavi have both asked the Ministry of Justice to investigate the involvement of the plainclothesmen in the violence that has been sparked during the protests.

15. Several eye-witnesses have seen non-Iranian Arabs waving Hamas/Hezbollah flags around the protests. These reports have been fully confirmed and are NOT a rumor spread by Israel.

16. Finally, the big news. It seems that the Green Revolution has garnered the support of Hashemi Rafsanjani, Nateq Noori, Tabatabayee and other prominent clerics and politicians. The Rohaniyone Mubarez organization that which has in its ranks pretty much most of the clerics except for the ones in power and includes Mr. Rafsanjani and Mr. Noori has declared their support for the annulment of the election and holding of new elections. Ayatollah Montazeri has yet to declare clear support.

Finally a few words to those who are reading this:

People Outside Iran: This is as clear and concise as I can be. I have not included ANYTHING that I have sensed to be remotely fishy, but human error will always manifests itself in even the most flawless of non-mathematical things. However, this includes nothing from the Western media, including the BBC which I have been generously using to inform people and I laud them for their courageous journalism.

People Inside Iran: Don't believe a WORD of what I am telling you. Do what you think is best, keeping everything in mind. I know LITTLE of what you know so make your decisions based on your OWN judgment.

People Who Want to Send Me Tweet Links: You don't need to find me, I will find you. Don't hassle yourself. Your voice will be heard through millions of others like me.

People Who Want to Hunt Me Down: I'm an Afghan. If you ever tried to attack me, you'll see my back only after your back has met the ground.


P.S. Please post this around. I will be writing one brief of this kind everyday until this ends.
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/showthread.php?t=486

[PeruvianSkies]

Wiki has a good page on this that is being constantly updated - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_election_protests

[Paloma]

15. Several eye-witnesses have seen non-Iranian Arabs waving Hamas/Hezbollah flags around the protests. These reports have been fully confirmed and are NOT a rumor spread by Israel.

 

Another axis of evil
Wednesday, 17th June 2009

Yesterday, there were suggestions that Hezbollah forces were being brought into Iran to help put down the revolt against the regime. Today, as reports seep out of the brutality being meted out to the protesters ? the anonymous post here at 6.03 pm is particularly affecting ? which suggest that the casualty toll is far higher than has so far been claimed, the Jerusalem Post reports that Palestinian Hamas thugs have been imported into Iran to crush the uprising:

On Tuesday two protesters told The Jerusalem Post that Palestinian Hamas members are helping the Iranian authorities crush street protests in support of Mousavi... ?The most important thing that I believe people outside of Iran should be aware of,? the young man went on, ?is the participation of Palestinian forces in these riots.?

Another protester, who spoke as he carried a kitchen knife in one hand and a stone in the other, also cited the presence of Hamas in Teheran. On Monday, he said, ?my brother had his ribs beaten in by those Palestinian animals. Taking our people's money is not enough, they are thirsty for our blood too.?

It was ironic, this man said, that the victorious Ahmadinejad ?tells us to pray for the young Palestinians, suffering at the hands of Israel.? His hope, he added, was that Israel would ?come to its senses? and ruthlessly deal with the Palestinians.  When asked if these militia fighters could have been mistaken for Lebanese Shi'ites, sent by Hizbullah, he rejected the idea. ?Ask anyone, they will tell you the same thing. They [Palestinian extremists] are out beating Iranians in the streets? The more we gave this arrogant race, the more they want? [But] we will not let them push us around in our own country.?

It would indeed be ironic if, while Obama is putting the thumbscrews on Israel to facilitate a Palestinian state as a precondition for America getting tough with Iran, the Palestinians are being used to keep the Iranian regime in power.

Hamas is, of course, an arm of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood. The Iranians are Shi?ites, the supposed deadly foes of the Sunni. Hamas is, however, known to receive funding, arms and terrorist training from Iran, an alliance which has been dismissed as implausible by those who appear never to have heard of the Molotov /Ribbentrop pact. But then, the refusal to grasp that the real agenda behind the violence in the Middle East is the brutal imposition of Islamic theocracy, first upon the region and then upon the world, is the tragic delusion of the west -- which extends now all the way into the Oval Office.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3702136/another-axis-of-evil.thtml
 

[PeruvianSkies]

If you're going to fake election results at least make it look SLIGHTLY convincing - http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jun/17/iran-election-rigging

[PeruvianSkies]

If anyone in the UN wants to protest there are demonstrations held outside the Iranian embassy every night-
Iran election turnouts exceeded 100% in 30 town

[IsLame]

If you're going to fake election results at least make it look SLIGHTLY convincing - http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jun/17/iran-election-rigging

here's the title

"Iran election turnouts exceeded 100% in 30 towns"

 

[Submissive Bob]

Don't know if you've seen this but it is revealing.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/06/17/iran_contested_results.pdf

or

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/15/iran1#zoomed-picture

[J4m3z]

If anyone in the UN wants to protest there are demonstrations held outside the Iranian embassy every night-
Iran election turnouts exceeded 100% in 30 town

I'd love to go down there and protest! Is there any footage or pictures of outside the Iranian embassy recently?

[IsLame]

I'd love to go down there and protest! Is there any footage or pictures of outside the Iranian embassy recently?

Me too

[J4m3z]

Over 100% turnout lol. I wish we had turnout like that in the UK!

[panoptic]

the petit-bourgeois beat their pots and pans

Calvin Klein... revolution...

[osmanthus]

Thank you for your constructive input. I assume you're happy for the election-rigging to pass without protest then.