Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter«Pak Alert Press »
Posted By dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsAnyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.
Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. 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.
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.
Why were these tweets in English? Why were all of these profiles OBSESSED with Iran? It became obvious that this was the work of a team of people with an interest in destabilizing Iran. The profiles are phonies and were created with the sole intention of destabilizing Iran and effecting public opinion as to the legitimacy of Iran’s election.
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AnteUp5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I wish I could comment intelligently on this article but I
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am not in the least Twitter-savvy (I don't even text!)
As far as the claim way down in the piece that Ahmadinejad
is the candidate that most Iranians wanted?? I cannot buy that.
The percentages for Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are as startlingly
unexpected as the Florida precinct returns in 2000.
Plus the lightning fast hand counting of the votes AND the
certification by the Ministry of the Interior in less than
the three days allowed - and for such a massive turn out.
Very fishy - and ultimately a lot of young idealistic Iranians
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tehranchik5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Lightening fast hand count!!!! they announced the winner 2 hours after the polls closed!!!!!!
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I'm not saying that it was rigged - we will probably never know but the irregularities need to be looked at.
Mousavi losing badly on his home turf. amj winning by twice (may be a slight exaggeration) as many votes as the last election with many, many unhappy followers changing alliance to Mousavi.
A few things to look at.
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tehranchik5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I just opened my twitter account late last night knowing that the foreign press was all but gone from Iran and twitter might be the only sliver of light left, coming from Iran. I stayed on for several hours watching, reading, looking for real news and not the silliness that comes through.
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The tweets I saw repeated over and over were about changing your time zone and place of origin to Tehran's place and time. This was said to fool the Iranian authorities and hide the real tweeters coming from Iran. I don't know if it works but lots of tweeters were following the instructions.
If this person at pakalert found the j-post I suppose we should pay closer attention and watch for other irregularities. -
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ur-land-is-my-land5 months, 2 weeks ago
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The author of the article has done a good detective job. It is no secret that Israel and Iran don't care much for each other. Iran has spies inside Israel and Israel has spies inside Iran.
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I am not surprised to see Mosad hiring internet warriors.
However Israelis really like to see Ahmadinejad to be the president simply because he has been the best boogyman God could have given to Israelis. Israelis have milked Ahmadinejad phobia as best as they or anybody could. I don't think they really want to see him go away.
Unfortunately Ahmadinejad's psychological profile can be read like a book. If I as a Physicist with no training in Psychology can read him so well then imagine how well Mosad and CIA and other intelligence service are able to read him and when ever they want to play him like a violin.
There are serious questions to be answered in this election:
-Why many of Mousavi's inspectors who had permission to attent ballot boxes were prevented from doing so?
-Why many of his inspectors were never issued any permit to attend the boxes?
-Why among those who were allowed to monitor the boxes, some were asked to leave when it was time for counting?
-Why some pro Mousavi voting stations were run out of ballot papers in middle of the day and the place was shut down for hours and these lost hours never compensated for?
-How 5 million votes were counted by hand in matter of just couple of hours or three hours?
-57 million ballot forms were printed and only 40 million supplied to the voting centers, what happened to the other 17 million?
and lot more questions...
BTW Obama's administration has taken an opportunistic approach. They have decided Ahmadinejad wins. Why? He will be a weak president and any time Obama in future negotiations don't get what they want they will have their goons in the media tell us that Ahmadinejad is not trust worthy and has to do more to convince us of the truth of his what ever..a president that lies to his own people can not be trusted and bla bla bla ....-
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alamintalib5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I can see your point. If you keep the bad guy in power then you have argument and support for your actions.
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Some people say the same about the first Gulf war and why the US did not press forward and get Saddam. If they did, then a reason for keeping troops in the Gulf would not get support.
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Edmar145 months, 2 weeks ago
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For God's sake, the article is the author's opinion, nothing more. I read the article with much interest, and the fact is that the "proof" that the author cites could be a million or more tweeters in Iran who just are not happy with the election results and want to do their part, not in destabilizing Iran, but in forcing a recount. In lieu of that, they could be underground students working against the present establishment, or they could be anybody who just feels that they were cheated in the election. Look at all of the demonstrations. Pick anybody from the crowd. There must be untold numbers of Iranians obsessed with the election. We had untold numbers of people obsessed with Florida during the 2000 presidential election. No Iranians speak english? There couldn't have been any Iranians who wanted to project their dissatisfaction with the election who wanted to use twitter and set up an account for that sole purpose on June 13th? Anything is a possibility since Iran supports Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria against Israel, but I think that the author bent the proof in one direction for his own agenda. There are just too many dissatisfied people in Iran to make such a claim without any hard proof. The proof that he cited fit too many Iranians just as easily.
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hyperbola5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Come,come, we have already seen similar "color revolutions" sponsored by the zioncons in Georgia, Ukraine, .... Time to get them out of our cia, government, media, politics, .... and start listening to real jews.
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