Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to media, bloggers, websites

Source: AP


Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to media

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writers

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis.

The Revolutionary Guards, an elite body answering to the supreme leader, says Iranian Web sites and bloggers must remove any materials that "create tension" or face legal action.

It is the Guards' first public statement since the crisis erupted following the presidential election last Friday.

Iranian reformist Web sites as well as blogs and Western Web sites like Facebook and Twitter have been vital conduits for Iranians to inform the world about protests over the declaration of election victory for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The government barred foreign media Tuesday from leaving their offices to report on the street protests.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

So they can shove it where the sun don't shine.

This will be in store for us, if the right wing CHRISTIAN (used with Sarcasm) Nut Jobs ever take over this country.

A stunning example of the hateful ends, of mixing Nut-Job clerics with right wing Fascists

When they got it it was a convenient acceptable alternative to a US installed puppet.

I could only imagine if the Christians could get their wish of America becoming a Christian Nation...We would be at the mercy of brains like Sarah Palin!!

The Republican Party's strategy beginning with Reagan was an alliance with two cultures in our society. His Southern Strategy was to exploit Southern racism and endorse the religious extremist views of the Christian fundamentalists. This ploy coupled with phony patriotism allowed the Bush-Cheney cabal to pursue their world domination policy as clearly spelled out in the PNAC manifesto. It has proven to be a difficult strategy to defeat. It is nearly impossible to rid people of their prejudices that have been cultivated by generations of ignorance and it is especially difficult to counter religious extremism without alienating more moderate Christians. They took our nation to the brink of ruination and it was only after people began to realize the extent of the damage have they pulled back from the brink that was fueled by the insatiable greed of those in command for both power and money. Heaven help us if we had totally subcomed to this dangerous combination that would have cast us into the depths of the Dark Ages.

"Iranian reformist Web sites as well as blogs and Western Web sites like Facebook and Twitter have been vital conduits for Iranians to inform the world about protests" -- so, have they been valuable conduits or were they shut down over the weekend as reported then? :crazy:

the authenticity of some twitters : http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x278387

BTW - was a shame your other post was moved given that your link cross linked to an accredited news source rather than just a blog.x( The fact remains that the whole subject remians suspicious to me given that it originated in the USA from an ex-student there and if you google everything goes back to that as the source.

I'm half tempted to set up on twitter and see how long I can "report" before someone busts me.

I understand and agree with how you feel about starting threads in LBN from blogs (that's why I hadn't got involved with it until I found the article I posted there) but there are now other stories in that thread that are quoting the same things (apparently) directly from Montazeri's website.

I don't know the language but here's his site, if anyone can translate it: http://amontazeri.com/farsi/default.asp

just the subject in general. One of these days we'll be set up and a real howler will be published in this way. Only an accredited news source can help prevent that. Most respectable blogs provide the source and in the absense of it being a recognisable news organisation I just don't believe the subject should be posted in LBN.

:hi:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/17/world/main5093150.shtml

Their foreign afairs correspondent is Elizabeth Palmer - I think ?

http://amontazeri.com/farsi/default.asp



It takes you to this link
http://amontazeri.com/farsi/f1.asp

Not much but long winded rants about all merciful allah blah blah bla

So much misdirection.

In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -

1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.

Why is this a surprise? Reports were that the students turned to twitter after the government shut down facebook, email and other e-communications. And how many is a handful?

2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.

Could there possibly be groups of people using a shared twitter account to communicate within their group?


3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword

Because that's what they were discussing. Although it would have been smarter to have used a codeword, so maybe this is evidence of someone else possibly being involved.

4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.

They are educated students. Definitely they wanted to get their message out to the world, and maybe keep it out of less educated hands. Note also that many of the signs they carry in the msm photos are in ENGLISH or English and Farsi. As in the POLICE jackets.

5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo

Do you really expect them to identify themselves? Again, students were supposedly using twitter to organize protests. They're trying to hide their identities and get past their government.

6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.

See #5.

So where is their proof that Israel was trying to disrupt the election? Or that all the twitters are fakes? There are a number of countries in the region that have interests there. Real evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia financed Moussavi's campaign has already been discussed elsewhere.

like main boulevards in Iran, Esfahan, and Shiraz? And where did they get the GREAT looking, realistic appearing blood that poured from the wounds of these fake protesters?

What I found interesting is that much of the twittering was backed up with cell phone video that followed it.

Obviously, the Iranian govt also has "university students" very active on twitter.

Some new Iranian breaking news forums popped up;
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/index.php
thats more of a digestable pace but still,
it could be a way to snag "miscreants" in country.

When it comes to believing what your seeing, live video feeds trump twitter spam bots any second of the day.


If you look at the video, look at all the camera phones standing by
ready to catch history of a shit hitting the fan moment

NOT!

...and my Tor relay! :P

uh, okeedokee.

Don't they arrest "foreign jounalists" for being spys if they ask to many questions or stray into harms way ?
Freedom of repress is the order of the day in most countries around the world.

The only way they can stop this is with many many tanks. Even the Iranian leadership may not have the stomach to do that. I think the people are going to win this battle.