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Monday, June 22, 2009

International "Will a wise man give a sharp dagger to an insane person?"

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM

Student protesters in Iran ask the world to intervene, or at least refuse to recognize the current government.

Meanwhile, a special Iranian tribunal will be set up to try the hundreds—maybe thousands—of protesters arrested during the demonstrations. Seeing as how justice official Ebrahim Raisi describes the protesters as "rioters" and "thugs," this tribunal's probably not going to do the demonstrators any favors.

And a martyr is born—Neda, the young woman who died in this YouTube video is being hailed as the "Angel of Iran." Fittingly (for this uprising fought online as well as on the streets), her shrine is on Facebook. (In Farsi, apparently, "Neda" means "the voice.")

The Guardian Council says it will pronounce its final verdict on the election on Wednesday.

And the internet tries to make it funny, with mild success:

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The regime will tighten up and start declaring curfews. Protestors will not comply and will not give in. europe will recognize moussavi. Obama will not. More will die. When the oil workers strike, it will be over, then the military will have a coup or Ahma. will leave and they will have the "run off" election which Moussavi will win. Then we'll find out if he's willing to do what Obama wants re: no weaponized nukes....if they get peaceful nuclear power.

That is lots of instrusive inspections.

Here's hoping and bravo to the democratists.

This is the biggest thing for democracy in decades and equals the fall of the berlin wall.

how can a billion muslims look at this and not want democracy, too.

and message to gay rights supporters:

"withholding our checkbooks" isn't really youtube worthy, you gotta DO SOMETHING LIKE GET ARRESTED.

Well pickets are a start, too.

Ciao

Posted by PC on June 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Recently named in Neda's honor is NedaNet, a network of hackers formed to support the democratic revolution in Iran. Their mission is to help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize -- a network beyond the censorship or control of the Iranian regime. As of a couple days ago, the public face of this project is Eric S. Raymond.

Please encourage all your computer geek friends to help by adding bandwidth and computing power to the network.

Posted by Phil M

on June 22, 2009 at 2:35 PM

As reported by Robert Tait and Matthew Weaver of The Guardian ("How Neda Soltani became the face of Iran's struggle", June 22, 2009) this young woman's full name was Neda Soltani.

Posted by Phil M

on June 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM

correction: It's Neda Agha-Soltan. (See associated Wikipedia talk page for discussion of her last name.)

Posted by Phil M

on June 22, 2009 at 3:16 PM

Don't miss out on this WSJ piece on how the Iranian guvmint is able to drill down into Web traffic ("deep packet inspection"), courtesy of those fine folks at Siemens and Nokia:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12456266…

Coming soon to a network near you!

Posted by Toe Tag on June 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM

sadly, @1 is right.

That said, I'm glad Obama is staying out of Iran.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on June 22, 2009 at 4:08 PM

That video was as funny as anything with this situation can be. Ahminidijab or however you spelll his name is and asshole, first rate asshole.

Posted by Tingleyfeeln on June 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM

Even if Ahmadinejad remains as the President and they end up squashing (murdering) the protesters, he will now be a lame duck President both in Iran and outside of it. The face of tyranny has been shown fully thanks to these brave protesters who have risk their lives. Every where he goes now he will have that albatross around his neck.

Posted by Loveschild