Today, Mousavi asked for the people of Iran to wear black and green and mourn those who have died.
There is a movement, online, for everyone everywhere to wear black and green. To spread the sea of green. I wonder what they think of all the protests and candlelight vigils that have taken place.
Mousavi himself has asked for people around the world to protest in their capital cities to spread this Sea of Green.
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/ - There are subsections by country to set up a rally.
Twitter shows US has taken side in Iran
Dean, Kerry Back Obama On Iran Protests
As always, Nico has the best info going on with Iran. Like for instance, instead of conceeding to the demand to have google turn green in support of Iran, they added Farsi (Persian language) to their google translate. This will greatly help people in the Farsi to English and English to Farsi translations to get information across.
Still, I wish they had turn green. I'm thinking of doing the green tint instead of sticking with this icon on my twitter page.
Also, facebook has put up (early) their Persian language version of the website.
8:05 PM ET -- Obama's comparison of Ahmadinejad and Mousavi, reconsidered. Reader Chas: "When Obama said Mousavi and Ahmadinejad were mostly the same, I think he was gaming everybody. What better way to distance yourself than that."
A reader of Andrew's feels the same way. "From Mousavi's perspective, being mildly put down by Obama shows that he's not a secret puppet of the US government. It lets him show his nationalist credentials. This defuses Supreme Leader Khamenei's main attack on the Islamist reformers."
Iran On The Brink?
Indeed, this election might well have released a host of pent-up forces - desperate hope for change, smouldering resentment at the vast inequalities plaguing Iran, utter disdain for the other side's core cultural identity - that will necessitate a bloody if cathartic settling of scores between two irreconcilable sides over grievances that date back to the dawn of the revolution, and its innumerable betrayals, failures and still unrealised goals.
The thundering chants of "Allahu Akbar" at opposition rallies remind us that Islam, even Islamism - that is, political Islam - and democracy can, and should, go together.
Iran protester: People want a new election
I remember one old man talking about how the will of the people has started and no one can stop it. I saw some secret police plainclothes officers among the people, watching and trying to find out what was going to happen, though they weren't doing anything to anyone. One person in the crowd was telling the plainclothes police that this won't last, that protesters will get tired, and we were all laughing at him.- I wanted to quote most of it...so just go read it.
Today people were very concerned and very determined. ... One of the slogans was saying, "We will not get exhausted and we will come every day."
With a lot anti-filter software, I can use the Internet, but it's very slow. But many people cannot. I work on the cyber side, spreading the news. I post a lot on Facebook. I let my friends know.
Some people inform each other with e-mails or by phone. Today, as we walked home, we were telling people that there is another demonstration on Saturday. When the cell phones work, we use them. Like today, cell phones weren't working (for much of the day), but then they came back on, so we called with them, or with land lines. We've had no SMS (text messaging) for a week now.
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I read an article by an Iranian saying something very nice: The train of the revolution has started, and (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei was left at the station, but (opposition leader Mir Hossein) Mousavi, (pro-reform leader Mohammad) Khatami and the others are following the train, trying to catch up with it.
He (Mousavi) was an accidental leader. I'm sure he was surprised that so many turned out at the rallies.
Everytime I see this video it makes me feel empowered and inspired.
The rules of cyberwarfare. You want to participate? You follow the rules. No ifs ands or buts about it. Lives are at stake here. Sever twitter posters that I know are Iranian have disappeared.
People have spoke about the Tehran University attack that the Hasij and police conducted on the students. The video of it has now surfaced.
A silent vigil in Montreal for Iran.
Wall Street Journal First person accounts of violence against the Iranians.
Worrisome news. The Hasij are planning to bring their attacks into the daylight.
The daytime protests across the Islamic republic have been largely peaceful. But Iranians shudder at the violence unleashed in their cities at night, with the shadowy vigilantes known as Basijis beating, looting and sometimes gunning down protesters they tracked during the day.
The vigilantes plan to take their fight into the daylight on Friday, with the public relations department of Ansar Hezbollah, the most public face of the Basij, announcing that they planned a public demonstration to expose the “seditious conspiracy” being carried out by “agitating hooligans.”
“We invite the vigilant people who are always in the arena to make their loud objections heard in response to the babbling of this tribe,” said the announcement, carried on the Web site Parsine.
The announcement could be the first indication that the government was taking its gloves off, Iranian analysts noted, because up to this point the Basijis, usually deployed as the shock troops to end any public protests, have been working in stealth.
I wished I had cable to watch Rachel Maddow.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Link to the Rachel Maddow piece on Iran It's worth watching.
Instead, me and my mom just did stuff online because 'crap' was on tv. Last night we watched Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Gameshow <-- I ♥ this show.
Earlier there was supposed to be another ralley today during Friday prayers (Friday is the day of the Sabbath for Muslims) but Mousavi called it off because the Friday prayers are typically seen as a reflection of the people's support and they were afraid that violence might come to pass.
CNN's Awesome listing of all thing involving the Iran Election Protests. They are working to piece together a visual map and time/place of the protests. I think it may take months to get most of the places mentioned and confirmed...but it's a start.
The GuardianWhy now? It may feel as if the discontent among young Iranians has blown up out of nowhere, writes Azadeh Moaveni, but they have been growing steadily more angry for years now.
The Guardians' Live Blog
About an hour from now the Prayer will start and soon we will know what is spoken and what the people's reaction will be.
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