And so, here we are again. After months of silence achieved through unbelievably violent suppression, intimidation, arrests, torture, and executions, the people of Iran are preparing one more time to take to the streets in solidarity with the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, and to protest Iran's state of total political and civil suffocation following last year's fraudulent elections.
Just as Ali Khamenei and his subordinates were getting really comfortable calling the 2009 uprisings "sedition," and the protesters "seditionists instigated and funded by foreign powers," the people have mobilized to take to streets another time.
Though the official application for a license to demonstrate was filed last week with Iran's Interior Ministry by Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, the impression one picks up from visiting the Iranian cyberspace is only marginally indicative of support for the two men as "leaders" of the movement. It appears that the Green Movement continues to live, much as it first started, without the need for leaders to tell it what to do.
The demonstration is scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. Tehran time on Monday, February 14. I will be posting any news I hear about it here. I would like to invite you all to join me in posting news and information about the developments here, too. In the absence of objective formal reporting out of Iran, the ordinary people of Iran use their limited means to get their voices out of Iran. Let us all help to get their voices out. We are the media.
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calls for execution of opp leaders
by Fair on Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:41 PM PST221 Majles deputies called for execution of Mousavi, Karroubi, Khatami:
//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_opposition
فراخوان دانشجویان برای شرکت در مراسم تشییع جنازه شهید صانع ژاله
Shifteh AnsariTue Feb 15, 2011 08:46 AM PST
ه گزارش دانشجونیوز در تجمع امروز دانشجویان دانشکده هنر، یکی از دوستان شهید صانع ژاله ضمن رد وابسته بودن این شهید به سازمان های حکومتی، اعلام داشته که وی به عنوان یکی از معترضین به حاکمیت در تجمعات دیروز شرکت داشته است.
بسیج دانشجویی به همراه رسانه های وابسته به حاکمیت با تبلیغات فراوان با سرپوش گذاری به جنایت عوامل حکومتی خود سعی در القای این مطلب دارند که وی از اعضای فعال بسیج دانشجویی بوده که توسط نیروهای مخالف جمهوری اسلامی به قتل رسیده است.
طبق گزارشات اولیه که به دانشجونیوز رسیده است شهید صانع ژاله از اعضای شورای عمومی انجمن اسلامی این دانشگاه بوده و به عنوان یکی از معترضین به حاکمیت در تجمع روز ٢۵ بهمن شرکت داشته است. همچنین خانواده وی برای انجام مصاحبه با رسانه های حکومت و بیان خواسته های آنان در صدا و سیما تحت فشار زیادی قرار گرفته اند.
داستان" اتوبوس" نوشته صانع ژاله ، در شماره ٣۷ نشریه آزما به چاپ رسیده است که بنا برمنابع خبری وابسته به سپاه پاسداران در گروه نشریاتی که در راستای اهداف جنگ نرم فعالیت میکنند قرار دارد.
گروه های مختلف دانشجویی اعلام داشته اند که فردا در مراسم تشییع جنازه این شهید آزادی خواه شرکت خواهند کرد و اجازه برگزاری مراسم تشییع جنازه حکومتی و مصادره این شهید توسط قاتلان وی را نخواهند داد. این مراسم فردا از ساعت ٩ صبح از جلوی دانشگاه هنر، خیابان ولیعصر (بالاتر از چهار راه ولیعصر) روبروی خیابان بزرگمهر، جنب دانشگاه امیرکبیر، برگزار خواهد شد.
//www.daneshjoonews.com/news/student/5778-138...
گفتگو با دانشجویان دانشگاه هنر:شهید صانع ژاله معترض بود نه بسیجی
Shifteh AnsariTue Feb 15, 2011 08:44 AM PST
از وبلاگ مسیح علی نژاد:
گفتگو با دانشجویان دانشگاه هنر تهران: شهید صانع ژاله معترض بود نه بسیجی
در راهپیمایی ۲۵ بهمن دوباره خانواده ای داغدار شد و دوباره خبرنگارنی در خبرگزاری فارس صف بسته اند برای انتشار اخباری که هیچ یک از همکلاسی ها و هم دانشگاهی های این دانشجو تاکنون تایید نمی کنند که صانع ژاله بسیجی بوده است و جملگی می گویند که این شاهید در راهپیمایی های اعتراضی همیشه شرکت می کرد . بخوانید مصاحبه ام را با هم دانشگاهی های این دانشجو و ببینید عکسی از این دانشجو را با پیراهن قهوه ای که کنار آیت آلله منتظری بزرگترین مرجعِ منتقدِ حاکمیت ایستاده است.
جرس:”عوامل فتنهگر و گروهک مزدور و تروریستی منافقین روز گذشته (دوشنبه) با برپایی تجمعات غیرقانونی و راهاندازی اغتشاشات خیابانی در برخی معابر تهران به سوی رهگذران آتش گشودند که در جریان این تیراندازی یکی از دانشجویان دانشگاه هنر تهران به شهادت رسید.” این خبری است که خبرگزاری فارس با انتشار آن پس از راهپیمایی اعتراضی مردم ایران، شلیک تیر مستقیم به مردم در روز ۲۵ بهمن در تهران را تائید کرده و در عین حال نوشته است: صانع ژاله متولد سال ۶۳ از هموطنان کرد زبان اهل پاوه و دانشجوی رشته نمایش دانشگاه هنر تهران بود که روز دوشنبه توسط یکی از گروههای تروریستی منافقین در خیابان امیر اکرم تهران با تیر مستقیم مورد هدف قرار گرفت که پس از اعزام به بیمارستان به شهادت رسید
باقیش اینجا: //masihalinejad.com/?p=3263
"The basis of a democratic
by LoverOfLiberty on Tue Feb 15, 2011 08:11 AM PST"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
(My respect goes out to all the brave Iranians who have peacefully protested for certain liberties and for real democracy in Iran.)
حمله یگان ویژه ناجا به خانوادهی بازداشتشدگان و ضرب و شتم آنان
Shifteh AnsariTue Feb 15, 2011 07:15 AM PST
اطلاعيه ها - حمله یگان ویژه ناجا به خانوادهی بازداشتشدگان و ضرب و شتم آنان
کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر - صبح امروز، ۲۶ بهمن ماه تعدادی از بازداشتشدگان تجمع روز گذشته در تهران، به دادگاه انقلاب واقع در خیابان معلم انتقال یافته و برای آنان پرونده تشکیل شده است. این در حالی است که ماموران یگان ویژه، صبح امروز با حمله به خانوادههای بازداشتشدگان در مقابل دادگاه انقلاب، آنان را مورد ضرب و شتم قرار دادهاند.
Read the rest here: //www.chrr.biz/print.php?articleid=12996
dear vildemose, I e-mailed you some demonstration news
by Anahid Hojjati on Tue Feb 15, 2011 02:17 AM PSTplease let me know if you received them. Again, thanks for all your hard work.
Thank you, dear Shifteh
by Azadeh Azad on Tue Feb 15, 2011 02:11 AM PST... for your hard work and perseverance. The 25 Bahman Tweets are fantastic. And as vildemose said below,
We shall overcome :-),
Azadeh
Thank you
by Shemirani on Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:27 AM PSTMerci Shifteh jan for this great blog (specialy the twitter window ) shahkar bood !!!
Hamegi khaste nabashid !!!
(sorry for the delay i should thank you last night !)
Now!
by G. Rahmanian on Mon Feb 14, 2011 09:32 PM PSTLet's all go watch, "Motor Taxi" video! There, you can see loads of Iranians in our beloved land leading happy lives, enjoying the fruits of our technological achievements while the Japanese are shaking in their Samurai straw sandals!
Thank you all. Love you all.
by vildemose on Mon Feb 14, 2011 08:50 PM PSTThank you all. Love you all. We shall overcome as Azadeh Azad would say...lol
.........
by yolanda on Mon Feb 14, 2011 08:49 PM PSTThank you, Shifteh, for volunteering your precious time to give us the updates for the last 24 hours!
thanks shifteh
by hamsade ghadimi on Mon Feb 14, 2011 08:09 PM PSTthanks shifteh. khoda hefzet koneh.
thanks Shifteh jan, Vildemose and other friends
by Anahid Hojjati on Mon Feb 14, 2011 07:56 PM PSTShifteh jan, thanks for your blog. Also thanks to Vildemose and everyone else who has contributed here. This is a great blog to keep coming back to in order to stay informed of the events.
Divaneh jan: Yes, I
by vildemose on Mon Feb 14, 2011 07:40 PM PSTDivaneh jan: Yes, I realized that now. I've been posting on 4 different blogs continously. I made the correction on the major one but I forgot the IC. Sorry. My apologies.
Oh, I Forgot!
by G. Rahmanian on Mon Feb 14, 2011 07:09 PM PSTSince all the folks in the video are from northern Tehran they should all be wearing their designer clothes on cold winter days! Have we ever seen Iranians who went without a jacket, years after years? And, as we all know, the most modern heating systems have been installed in the homes of the "mostaz'afin" since Ahmadinejad became president, so they can keep really warm. He is trying to fulfill all the promises Khomeini made to the poor folks some three decades ago. Soon he'll be pushing the "Zionist Entity" to her pre-'67 borders, too. Oops! Sorry, pre-'47!
Gotcha!
by G. Rahmanian on Mon Feb 14, 2011 06:50 PM PSTI keep asking very, very, very young girls who wear tiny summery skirts and a T-shirt under very, very, very light summery jackets if they are not cold. They just look at me and say nothing. I guess younger folks don't feel the cold as much as the old folks do!
Thank you all
by divaneh on Mon Feb 14, 2011 06:40 PM PSTA big thanks to Shifteh and all others who kept us aware of the latest developments in this blog.
Vildemose Jaan,
I think one of the latest videos that you have posted is from the post election demonstration, with a voice over. I also doubt that the security forces would film their crimes and make it available to the public.
Date stamp
by comrade on Mon Feb 14, 2011 06:32 PM PSTThis video which was offered in a comment shows people in T-shirts. Is our beloved homeland already as hot as our hearts and heads?
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
A new piece of
by vildemose on Mon Feb 14, 2011 05:47 PM PSTA new piece of information about the Iranian regime’s raping of the prisoners in prison…turns out that while raping the young men and women they photographed them and delivered the photos and video footage to their parents and families. How lucky the Egyptians were who never had to put up with ONE day of such treatment. No wonder their government came down so easily.
Shiraz, Kermanshah and Mash’had have erupted and thousands are out on the street fighting the regime forces.
More
by vildemose on Mon Feb 14, 2011 05:16 PM PSTMore videos:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE31ijkhWjw&feature=player_embedded
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7t4y_AmZQ&feature=player_embedded
Dear Shifteh
by The Prince on Mon Feb 14, 2011 05:12 PM PSTThank you for all your hard work. FB and other sites are blocked where I work. So your contribution is greatly appreciated!!!
IRANI
by Fair on Mon Feb 14, 2011 05:10 PM PSTMeemirad
ZELLAT NEMIPAZIRAD
This cry has not and will not go away, and is alive and well. I am so proud to be Iranian!
Thank you Shifteh Jan and all other compatriots for bringing this vital news and giving voice to those who feel they must walk silently.
THE SILENCE IS BROKEN!
Payandeh Iran va Irani.
Thank you
by Shifteh Ansari on Mon Feb 14, 2011 05:08 PM PSTThank you, the good people of Iranian.com for contributing to this blog through reading, commenting, and sharing. I am aware that there are other places on the internet where such information is being compiled during critical days, some even better and more comprehensively than ours. On Facebook, for example, there are pages dedicated to events such as this. But that is Facebook, it is not Iranian.com. I believe as a community of caring, intelligent, and knowledgeable citizens, regardless of our differences of opinion, we are entitled to having our own news collection. Maybe, on a day like this, when people are naturally attracted to a website that is called Iranian.com, it would be a good thing if they can find news about Iran right here.
Thank you all for helping to get the voices and the information out of Iran. I hope soon there comes a day when Iranians have their deserved freedom, too.
Indeed Divaneh jan,
by Hajminator on Mon Feb 14, 2011 05:00 PM PSTI don't get tired listening to it again and again. May God too, hear this basic and beautiful human bid!
After watching Al Jazeera
by vildemose on Mon Feb 14, 2011 04:35 PM PST//www.livestation.com/channels/3-al-jazeera-english-english
Thanks dear Shifteh ...
by Shazde Asdola Mirza on Mon Feb 14, 2011 04:35 PM PST... for your relentless attack on the evil IRI
Bad Stories for Bad Kids
GR
by Doctor mohandes on Mon Feb 14, 2011 04:30 PM PSTI Got that from S. homayon's program. Did not cite a source or anything.
Dastetaan dard nakonad...
by Ari Siletz on Mon Feb 14, 2011 04:21 PM PSTSounds like beautiful music
by divaneh on Mon Feb 14, 2011 04:21 PM PSTThose chants sound like the best music. This nation deserves freedom more than any other nation. This looks more like a start than a one off revolt.
That's Great, DM!
by G. Rahmanian on Mon Feb 14, 2011 04:07 PM PSTPower to the people! 32 years is too long! Iran and Iranians need to move on!