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Our BetterMost Community => The Polling Place => Topic started by: David In Indy on June 21, 2009, 01:30:43 am
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I've been pinned to my TV. I've also been tweeting quite a bit over at Twitter.
The current news from Iran (as best as I can tell) is that the Basiji are mostly foreigners (most are speaking Arabic), the Basiji have been marking the homes of the protesters so they can return later to beat and arrest them, Neda was only 16 years old and she was shot in front of her father by the Basiji and has since become the face of the opposition, raids have been conducted at night in Iranian homes (CNN aired an appalling video of one of these raids... you could hear the women and children screaming) and the protesters plan to return to the streets tomorrow.
Have you been monitoring the protests via the Internet and the news channels?
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I have had a working experience with a foreign company in Iran almost 20 years ago. I am thinking of some of the people I worked with, in particular of a young family I used to know.
We always detected a lot of unhappiness. On one occasion I got stopped in the street by the Pasdarans (not sure about spelling), the guards of the 1979 revolution, because of my hair coming out from under the scarf. Having got stopped for so little I can well imagine the suppression now.
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I have had a working experience with a foreign company in Iran almost 20 years ago. I am thinking of some of the people I worked with, in particular of a young family I used to know.
We always detected a lot of unhappiness. On one occasion I got stopped in the street by the Pasdarans (not sure about spelling), the guards of the 1979 revolution, because of my hair coming out from under the scarf. Having got stopped for so little I can well imagine the suppression now.
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The sharing of your experiences in Iran would be invaluable. :-*
I have several Iranian friends here in Indianapolis. They have been watching the events in Iran closely. I hope everything turns out okay over there and no more people are injured or killed.
a few recent tweets I've received from Iran....
We going to Azadi Square now in Tehran. Pray for us! Today is our INDEPENDENCE DAY from tyranny! ...
another tweet....
Today is r INDEPENDNCE frm tyranny n Iran! Thank u World! #IranElection
Heartbreaking... scary... and inspiring! All at the same time!
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I am not on twitter but having been following Iran issue via the BBC news website.. but just online today for the first time since Friday afternoon so must get caught up on the news on it..
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Actually I have not been following it closely at all. I guess it is one of those things where I really don't know of anyone from Iran so it seems a long way awat for me. I know that what is going on there is terrible, but beyond that I don't know much about the details.
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{{{{SEL}}}}}
The sharing of your experiences in Iran would be invaluable. :-*
I have several Iranian friends here in Indianapolis. They have been watching the events in Iran closely. I hope everything turns out okay over there and no more people are injured or killed.
a few recent tweets I've received from Iran....
We going to Azadi Square now in Tehran. Pray for us! Today is our INDEPENDENCE DAY from tyranny! ...
another tweet....
Today is r INDEPENDNCE frm tyranny n Iran! Thank u World! #IranElection
Heartbreaking... scary... and inspiring! All at the same time!
The father in the young family I mentioned in my previous post once showed us his back with numerous permanent scars from lashing. I suppose he was lucky he had been lashed and not killed.
Just read on the BBC website 10 people killed.
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The father in the young family I mentioned in my previous post once showed us his back with numerous permanent scars from lashing. I suppose he was lucky he had been lashed and not killed.
Just read on the BBC website 10 people killed.
:o Did he say what he had been lashed for, Sel?
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Good rundown of situation at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8112176.stm
David - what tweets are you currently reading.. I'm not a member of twitter but you can read peoples tweets if you have a direct link to the page.
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:o Did he say what he had been lashed for, Sel?
He said he had been lashed because he opposed the current regime. He might have given us more details but many years have gone by and I can' t remember.
Friendships outside work were discouraged. It had to be done discreetely ...
Writing in haste as I am in an Internet Cafe' miles away from home, (London). It seems that the UK has evacuated, or thinking of evacuating, their embassy.
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i looked at the you tube video tonight of Neda.
So very sad.
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i looked at the you tube video tonight of Neda.
So very sad.
I just watched one, very disturbing! A friend of mine is Persian so I'm definitely watching what's happening there.