Obama Speaks Up About Iran
Today I received the following email from Amnesty International calling concerned people to action…
Let Iran know that the global community is monitoring their every move.
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The government of Iran swiftly kicked the machinery of repression into high gear over the last several days in response to the largest public demonstrations of opposition that country has seen in 3 decades.1
Iranian authorities have violently cracked down on the wave of protesters who have taken to the streets since June 13th in an act of breathtaking defiance to protest the contested results of Friday’s presidential election. Up to 1 million people poured into the streets yesterday despite a ban on opposition protests. Basij (paramilitary) forces opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least one person and injuring several others. According to reports, as many as five students at Tehran University were shot dead over the weekend and another person was wounded when security agents opened fire on a demonstration. Motorcycle-mounted riot police have severely beaten large numbers of protestors with clubs and night sticks. Authorities have detained 170 people since June 12, including the brother of former President Mohammad Khatami. |
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Iranian authorities have taken aggressive measures to stifle dissent and stem the flow of information – both inside and outside of the country – about the widespread unrest. While the Iranian government had granted journalists short-term visas to cover the elections, authorities have subsequently curtailed freedom of speech through blocking cell phones, text messaging, email and Web sites.2 Nonetheless, Iranian protestors have circumvented efforts to seal off the country and have succeeded in transmitting accounts of the explosive violence of the last few days to the outside world.3 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in an unprecedented announcement yesterday that an investigation into alleged election fraud would be carried out. Public protests are likely to continue as Iranian authorities attempt to resolve the hotly contested election results. And many fear that Iranian authorities will continue to respond with attempts to stamp out the demonstrations. We need to ensure that those at the highest echelons of power in Iran are aware that, despite their best efforts at concealing their bloody crackdown, the global community is monitoring their every move. Help us send the vital message today to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that we refuse to remain silent when authorities use bloody violence to crush dissent and deny Iranian citizens their freedom of speech and association. Thank you for your action, Elise, Zahir, Steve and the rest of the Iran rapid response team |
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32 Responses to “The Global Community Is Watching Iran (We’re also Tweeting)!”
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Revoloution via internet. Who would have thought it was possible?
Even though they are blocking twitter the people are still finding ways to get news out
I really think thatthis could change the regime in Iran. Let give the demonstrators all our suport
We shall monitor all happening in Iran demonstration, as this will reflect in our global implementation of "Right of expression".
The Iranian regime is going to see it's last day soon. It' unfortunate that those students have to fight a tyrannical, dictatorial theocracy. The election should be counted properly.
I love Obama, but this time I think he took too long to respond to the case. It has been almost a week since the beginning of this 'revolution'.
this Iran thing is becoming scary…
We must keep tweeting!! inform the world!
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Great post. Twitter is a great way for the world to communicate almost instantly. The 140 character limit seems to speed things up too!
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Thanks for helping spread the good word!
Looking from one side I must say that international community must show that is watching, and also tweeting is a great idea to show our support. But in the other hand Iranians have no free access to internet. My colleague went to Iran about a month ago (when the whole thing was rolling already) and he told me that they could use internet freely because the signal was so bad that all they could do was watch some simple websites. No uploading or downloading was possible, the whole web went crack down because of the government's actions. So this is the other side of the coin. The information in Iran is highly censored. No such support actions will get to the ordinary people in Iran.
Revoloution via internet, we must keep tweeting is the information era. thanks god!
Information is the key to freedom. Its really shamefull that Obama didn't take a harder line on this. Its not right for America to stand by and watch while there are injustices taking place in the world.
It seems that Iranian authority forgot what the term "democracy is".
It's hard you know if you want to make democracy work in a theocratic country like Iran..
The worry seems to be that Iran's connection will be overloaded with these DDoS attacks, but thats debatable and would require more powerful tactics. For now the internet connections there seem to alright, and there are some great pictures coming out of it.
People must know what "Democracy" really is…
great posts, i will certainly return to check on the latests posts..
I can only hope that the international community keeps applying pressure to Iran. It's obvious that the people of Iran do not agree with the policies of their country but without weapons or the help of other countries, they are helpless to overthrow it.
The world must apply pressure not just the US all the time. It needs to be a more united effort and not all on Obama.
Obama is the best president ever
Great and informative post. democracy is best policy.
Iran may become a threat for other nations, there must be something to do about it.
Revoloution via internet, we must keep tweeting is the information era. thanks god!
Yeah what's happening this days to Iran was really a threat to others.
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I cant beleive Iran being so bold! But can the US afford going to any conflict with all teh other wars they are fighting at the moment!
Do it OBAMA , not only talk, speak and speech.
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I like Obama, but still he is an ordinary man with limitation. He can't solve all world problems.
Surely Iraq was a huge mistake, just like Afghanistan. Now only possible thing to make Iran a better place is to help Iranians to give themselves more freedom. Iranian society is being constantly oppressed by their government and this situation gives huge feedback from them. I think that talib regime will fall withing next few years. We need to support Iranian people that want to make their own country a better place!
finally someone talking about it, protests and beating has been going on there for way too long without any media noticing. I mean for gods sake there were videos from Iran on youtube and TV networks still didn't even bother to report.