Thirty one years after the Islamic Revolution, two forces inside Iran come face to face tomorrow, February 11, 2010. The Iranian regime, which has increasingly been the sole celebrator of 22 Bahman, is trying with all its might to show this day and its related "celebrations" as evidence of its legitimacy and Iranian people's commitment to the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite appearances. Iranian protesters who have been denied legal permits for their gatherings to object to elections fraud and subsequent violence on protesters, are planning to take over this public gathering, much as they have every other government supported occasion since June, 2009.
By all accounts, the government has done its best to enlist and summon its supporters to its Tehran gathering, using intimidation and threats to keep the protesters at home, bringing internet services to a hault, lining main streets with loudspeakers to drone out voices of the protesters, switching plastic garbage dumpsters (flammable ones) with metal ones to keep the protesters from using them as barricades, and closing in Azadi Square for more effective crowd control, among other things.
For their part, the protesters have said in Tweets and blogs that they would not be deterred. They are planning to show up and to be heard again.
The sad murders of Iranians on Tehran streets whenever there has been a large protest over the past seven months has been no small matter. Nobody looks forward to more violence and it is everyone's sincere hope that no other Iranian dies during the protests or after. We cannot stop the violence Islamic Republic of Iran is able and willing to unleash on the unarmed Iranian protesters. All we can do is to share what information we get about the events with others. Let us not be indifferent. Let us make the voices of those defenseless people on Tehran streets heard by the rest of the world.
If you see Tweets, blogs, news items, video clips, or anything else which could be of interest to others in our community, please feel free to post it here over the coming hours. I will do the same. This blog will be a live news blog.
I wish Iranians worldwide peace and freedom. I wish every one of those people to go back to their families safe and sound tomorrow.
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On the East Side
by IranFirst on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:26 PM PSTstreets leading to Azadi Sq. are filled with the regular police force
and cars carrying the Iranian flags. The people on the East side of the
Square chant: “Courageous Iranians: Support! Support!”
خيابانهاي منتهي به ميدان آزادي نيروي انتظامي معمولي ايستاده و پر
از ماشين با پرچم ايران است.ضلع شرقی میدان آزادی مردم شعار می دهند
ایرانی باغیرت حمایت حمایت
CNN report from 15 minutes ago- Global support
by Hovakhshatare on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:23 PM PST//edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/11/iran...
گزارش زنده از خیابانهای ایران در 22 بهمن
Noosh AfarinWed Feb 10, 2010 10:22 PM PST
LIVE COVERAGE
//twitter.com/IranStreets
......
by yolanda on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:19 PM PSTThank you all for the updates. I have read all the English news highlights!
Thank you, Shifteh Ansari, for the timely blog!
Thank you!!
خيابان وصال از بالا تا پايين نيروي انتظامي قدم به قدم با باتوم،
HollyUSAWed Feb 10, 2010 10:19 PM PST
توزيع اجناسي از قبيل گوشت و مرغ و برنج بين مردم چند ساعت قبل از
HollyUSAWed Feb 10, 2010 10:17 PM PST
I hope you do not mind
by sbglobe on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:17 PM PSTI hope you do not mind (maybe I should have asked first) but I added a link to this post/blog to facebook - it is very informative - Thank You!
update
by IranFirst on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:16 PM PSTpolice have stopped two Basij trucks at Saadat Abad Sq. for unknown
reasons. Police forces and plain-clothes officers have been stationed
on foot and on bikes throughout Enghelab St, from 16 Azar to Vali-asr
Sq.
در میدان سعادت آباد نیروی انتظامی بدلایل نامعلومی دو وانت بسیجیان
را متوقف کرد و با آنها برخورد کرده است.خيابان انقلاب از خيابان ۱۶ آذر
تا چهاراه وليعصر ماموران نيروي انتظامي و سياهپوش های موتور سوار و
پياده مستقرند
توییت: پل سیدخندان
Shifteh AnsariWed Feb 10, 2010 10:14 PM PST
پل سید خندان مقابل دانشگاه خواجه نصیر جمعیت زیادی در حال حرکت هست.جمعیت زیادی از مردم در میدان آزادی علیرغم ساعات اولیه روز جمع شده اند
Loudspeakers
by IranFirst on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:13 PM PSTare crowds of people shouting “We are Countless!” on the East corner of
Azadi Sq.Loudspeakers in the area are extremely loud and appear to have
been arranged to overpower anti-government slogans.
ضلع شرقی میدان آزادی شاهد تعدادی از مردم است که شعار میدهند ما بی
شماریم.صدای بلندگوها بسیار بلند است و ظاهرا قصد دارند با صدای بلندگوها
بر صدای شعارهای ضد حکومتی غلبه کنند
توییت: همین الان فریاد مرگ بر دیکتاتور در میدان آزادی
Shifteh AnsariWed Feb 10, 2010 10:12 PM PST
همین.
22 بهمن سبز / استقرار نیروهای نظامی در چند نقطه تهران
Shifteh AnsariWed Feb 10, 2010 10:11 PM PST
شبکه جنبش راه سبز (جرس): در چند نقطه شهر تهران نیروهای نظامی مستقر شده اند.
به گزارش خبرنگار جرس ، در محدوده خیابان کارگر و امیرآباد شمالی و مقابل صدا وسیما نیروهای نظامی و بسیجی زیادی مستقر شده اند.
همچنین بر طبق برخی گزارشها، جمع زیادی از نیروهای ضد شورش در برخی حوزه های مقاومت و مساجد نزدیک به میدان آزادی مستقر شده اند تا در صورت لزوم به خیابانها بیایند.
خودروهای زرهی ویژه مقابله با تظاهرات شهری مجهز به آب پاش که اخیرا از ارتش چین خریداری شد نیز برای اولین بار به خیابانها آمده اند و در مقابل صداوسیما هم اکنون مستقر شده اند.
خبرگزاری فارس نیز دقایقی پیش در خبری اعلام کرد که میدان آزادی تهران مملو از بسیجیان و نیروهای هوادار دولت محمود احمدی نژاد شده است و اکنون این افراد در حال قرائت زیارت عاشورا هستند.
خبرهای تکمیلی متعاقبا ارسال خواهد شد.
//www.rahesabz.net/story/10009/
Keshavarz Blvd
by IranFirst on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:09 PM PSTforce bikes and trucks loaded with batons and tear gas are on standby
on Keshavarz Blvd, from Aria Hospital to Palestine Avenue.
خيابان بلوار كشاورز از بيمارستان آريا تا خيابان فلسطين، موتورهاي
يگانويژه، وانتهاي پر از نيروي آماده با باتوم و گاز اشكآور ايستاده اند
Sima
by Shifteh Ansari on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:09 PM PSTThank you for coming to visit. The chat room is still there, I just checked. They have only moved the button. Here it is:
//iranian.com/main/chat
Thank you
by Jeesh Daram on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:09 PM PSTDear Shifteh,
Thanks for the Persian Radio link. They have been broadcasting some of the chants live from Tehran callers on their cell phones and they are very encouraging....
Thank you
//www.epersianradio.com/
Unconfirmed but from more than one source
by HollyUSA on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:07 PM PSTجوانان اریا شهر اتوبوسهای مزدورانی که از ارومیه امده بودن رو به اتش کشیدن
Also there is said to be a large crowd outside Evin
Thanks, everybody
by sima on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:01 PM PSTShifteh jan, Holly, and everybody else: thanks so much for tracking the events.
I haven't been in the chatroom for a while and I just noticed it's not there anymore. Are we using the blogs to communicate real time?
ميدان آزادي مملو از جمعيت شد (خبر از فالس نیوز)
Shifteh AnsariWed Feb 10, 2010 10:00 PM PST
ميدان آزادي ساعتي قبل از شروع مراسم با حضور بيسابقه مردم مملو از جمعيت شده است.
به گزارش خبرنگار سياسي خبرگزاري فارس، در حالي كه تا برگزاري مراسم بهار سيويكمين سال پيروزي انقلاب اسلامي نزديك به يك ساعت زمان باقي است ميدان آزادي تهران محل برگزاري اين مراسم همچون نگيني در ميان جمعيت مشتاق قراردارد.
گروههاي مختلف مردم از مسيرهاي گوناگون به سمت ميدان به حركت درآمدهاند. سيل خروشان مردم ازهماكنون در قاب تصوير دوربينهاي نمايندگان رسانههاي خارجي قرار گرفته است.
Tweet about seeing the Chinese made armored vehicles
by Shifteh Ansari on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:58 PM PSTخودروهای ضد شورش چینی ابتدای خیابان جام جم رو نمائی شدند. امروز قرار است از این خودروهای سرکوب علیه مردم استفاده شود
updates
by IranFirst on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:58 PM PSTis a large crowd moving along Seyed Khandan bridge right across Khaje
Nasir St. A significant number of people have been gathering in Azadi
Square since the early morning hours.
پل سید خندان مقابل دانشگاه خواجه نصیر جمعیت زیادی در حال حرکت
هست.جمعیت زیادی از مردم در میدان آزادی علیرغم ساعات اولیه روز جمع شده
اند
9:10 Chinese
anti-riot vehicles have been reported to be seen on Jame-Jam St. It
appears that they will be used for the suppression of people’s protests
today.
خودروهای ضد شورش چینی در ابتدای خیابان جام جم رو نمائی شدند.ظاهرا امروز قرار است از این خودروهای سرکوب علیه مردم استفاده شود
9:00 Governmental
buses have been transferring Basij forces and plain-clothes officers
from different parts of the town towards the demonstration routes.
اتوبوسهای حکومتی نیروهای بسیجی و لباس شخصی ها را از نقاط مختلف به سمت مسیرهای راهپیمائی منتقل میکنند
Tweet from Tabriz
by Shifteh Ansari on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:57 PM PSTمیدان ارک تبریز سراسر سبز شده است و مردم شعار می دهند امرور روز خون است یزید سرنگون است
From: دانشجویان سبز دانشگاه علم و صنعت - IUST Green Students
Azadeh AzadWed Feb 10, 2010 09:56 PM PST
حضور گسترده سبزها در راهپیمایی امروز
Shifteh AnsariWed Feb 10, 2010 09:55 PM PST
شبکه جنبش راه سبز (جرس): بیش از یک ساعت مانده به برگزاری راهپیمایی بزرگ 22 بهمن هزاران هزار نفر از هواداران جنبش سبز به خیابان ها آمده اند.
به گزارش خبرنگاران جرس در مناطق مختلف تهران، ساعاتی مانده به آغاز رسمی راهپیمایی امروز هزاران نفر از هواداران جنبش سبز در خیابانهای تهران دیده می شوند. یکی از اصلی ترین مناطق تجمع سبزها تا این لحظه فلکه دوم صادقیه مکانی است که مهدی کروبی روز گذشته به عنوان مسیر حرکت خود اعلام کرده است.
خبرهای تکمیلی متعاقبا ارسال خواهد شد.
//www.rahesabz.net/story/10008/
Azadi Square closed in for crowd control
by Shifteh Ansari on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:54 PM PSTHolly Jan, this is the clip I left in an earlier message here with the clip. The clip was videotaped a couple of nights ago:
//iranian.com/main/comment/reply/97447/26...
Hijack
by HollyUSA on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:41 PM PSTApparently they had asked people in advance to chant Allaho Akbar last night in celebration of 22 Bahman. I guess they figured it was going to happen anyway and decided to own it this way. Except everyone knows that tge Greens own the Allaho Akbar chanting. So in fact what they did in reality was to add the voices of their thugs to those of the greens. Nice try though.
They're trying to hijack the protests
by Anonymous Observer on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:34 PM PSTand are taking credit already for the chants of Allah-o-Akbar. Here, this is from IRNA:
//www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=956941
Text by IRI
by IranFirst on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:29 PM PSTIR Intelligence is sending people txt msgs trying to scare them from attending
Here is the text
//friendfeed-media.com/e6e4178814592e652f5354...
Protestors will be held in prison until after Norooz.
by thexmaster on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:29 PM PSTHeightening its warnings as anticipated anti-government protests approach, Iran's government says it will arrest protesters and hold them until April if they disrupt state-sanctioned marches to commemorate the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.
Iran is this week celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, culminating on February 11 -- a day that marked the end of the country's Western-backed monarchy and the start of an Islamic republic. A coalition of Iranian reformist groups is urging opponents of the regime to stage non-violent protests on Thursday, on the official anniversary of the Shah's ouster.
//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/iran/?hpt=T1
Thats a far worse punishment than rape and execution.
'Designated Areas'
by HollyUSA on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:24 PM PSTReportedly there are fences that are not hard to push through. I heard there is a YouTube video of it but haven't found it yet.
The logistics
by Ari Siletz on Wed Feb 10, 2010 09:21 PM PSTA complex scheme is to be implemented in which the routes to the northern and eastern sides of Azadi Square, from where protesters customarily emerge, will be blocked for several kilometers in each direction. People trying to make their way to the square via those routes will be diverted away from the eyes of the international press, who will be confined to designated areas within the square. The diversion strategy will be executed with dozens of Basij contingents from the provinces that have been brought to Tehran. Each group has been assigned to one section of the city's northeast quadrant, using Azadi Square as the reference point...