The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance — and risk disrupting the communications of thousands of Iranian dissidents using the #IranElection hashtag — as a 27-year old guy in the Policy Planning shop named Jared Cohen. Although he’s More…
Via Nico Pitney, a video made by a group called Iranian Artists in Exile, distributed via Facebook, about the opposition. Set against pictures of enormous demonstrations and resultant police and militia brutality, the group seeks to address the question of what the outside world should do for Iran.
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Via Nico “Up at 4 a.m.” Pitney at Huffington Post, Iran’s Guardian Council — the appointed body that ensures that parliamentary decisions don’t get in the way of religious obligations — has agreed to recount disputed votes in the election. But it hasn’t agreed to annul the election, More…
From @PersianKiwi just now, a terrifying escalation in the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress the protests:
Baseej shooting in Azadi sq – army standing by and watching for now. #Iranelection
PersianKiwi adds that the shooting was an “unprovoked attack” and s/he sees “first hand” at least one person dead.
The Iranian regime is able to shut down access to e-mail (by limiting bandwidth), SMS and Facebook. Lots of protesters and would-be protesters are unable to make phone calls or otherwise communicate with each other, thereby limiting the ability of the opposition movement to gather strength. But the regime is More…
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