At the brink: Ahmadinejad refuses to guarantee Mousavi’s safety

Hey folks this guy/gal has compiled a list of folks currently twittering from inside Iran. They seem to be on the level although a couple of them have been blocked some are in Farsi and there may be a couple in their used for disinformation.

http://renjie.posterous.com/twitterers-posting-from-inside-iran-via-reddi

# @potent_one #iranelect:PPL GO HELP THE STUDENTS AT KOHEH DANESHGAH!!! THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED MERCILESSLY BY THE ANTI RIOT POLICE, PLS RTabout 1 hour ago from web

http://twitter.com/Robot117

elduende on June 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM

Earlier I heard Brit Hume say the uprising seemed to have peaked. Now I hear FNC coming up to speed on it. Tomorrow will tell.

petefrt on June 14, 2009 at 7:53 PM

I think our media is hindered by their own ignorance of these type events and their historical illiteracy. They are also constrained by the Iranian regime’s clampdown on communications and finally they have no clue how to report something that has negative implications for Obama. Thank god for the Internet.

elduende on June 14, 2009 at 7:59 PM

William Amos on June 14, 2009 at 8:15 PM

Isn’t it obvious? These weasels are nervous about something ever since Tuesday 2 weeks ago. If they thought their policies were working they would have no need to start pointing fingers.

I do know that if there is an attack the Obama presidency is in deep kimchee and they know it, trying to point fingers will also backfire enormously. The political war that will erupt will derail them permanently.

elduende on June 14, 2009 at 8:24 PM

petefrt on June 14, 2009 at 8:17 PM

Yeah I also dismissed the twitter and facebook stuff but it certainly does come in handy in these situations.

elduende on June 14, 2009 at 8:26 PM

AMERICAN VETERAN on June 14, 2009 at 11:39 PM

LOL!

elduende on June 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM

According to our private phone conversations with people in Tehran, hundreds of parents have gathered by a police station in Yousef Abad, now known as Seyyed Jamal Aldin Asad Abadi, with their hands raised to the sky saying “Obama, please help us, they are killing our young children.”

http://niacblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/election-unrest-day-two/

Silence from Obama. Not even one statement. Guess his foreign policy is more important than these students….

elduende on June 15, 2009 at 12:42 AM

In response to a question of what the Iranian people want the U.S. and American people to do, his response was as follows:

The most essential need of young Iranians is to be recognized by US government. They need them not to accept the results and do not talk to A.N government as an official, approved one. They need help by sending true information. All the medias are under arrest or close control. Help them have the information.

They only try to show the fraud to the world. Help them please. You can not imagine the level of brutality we saw these two awful days.

http://niacblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/election-unrest-day-two/

This is why Obama can’t recognize the students his arrogance and delusional foreign policy of “engagement” is more important.

elduende on June 15, 2009 at 12:50 AM

But the Obama administration has a huge problem in dealing with this crisis. Why? Because it is pretending that Iran is not hostile, or at least can be made non-hostile through engagement. Consequently, the administration is going to do everything possible to avoid making any criticism of the Islamist regime, lest that—in its own mind—destroy any chance to have détente with the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

This is grotesque, to say the least. No support for the courageous, nonviolent pro-reform demonstrators who are being beaten. No protest at the arrest of candidates or campaign workers. If Iranian forces opened fire on a crowd and shoots down hundreds of demonstrators there won’t be a peep from Washington.

The administration has painted itself into a corner and seems content to stay there. President Barack Obama has told us that Islam is always tolerant, that Palestinians are always victims, and that conflicts are almost always—not always, but usually—the fault of the West. More deeply, his is a philosophy that universal human rights must be filtered through local cultures and other religious practices.

It is also a philosophy which accepts the idea that radical regimes—Islamist, Arab nationalist, neo-Communist (Cuba and North Korea), and wherever one wants to put Venezuela and Bolivia—can daily denounce Western democratic states and societies in the most vicious terms but there can be no equivalent response. After all, their feelings might be hurt and they’ll refuse to participate in European and American efforts to engage them, give them money, and hand them concessions.

http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2009/06/won%27t-denounce-the-administartion.html

elduende on June 15, 2009 at 1:25 AM