How Iran is filtering out dissent »
Posted By israeligirl1 4 months, 1 week ago in NewsThe Iranian regime crackdown strategy was well prepared on one front: internet censorship. Internet providers are required to go through state-controlled gateways making blocking easier. Internet in Iran is now running at 1/10 of its usual speed to block cell phone video transmission.
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hyperbola4 months, 1 week ago
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Well, that is thepropaganda that the israel-firsters have been trying to propagate ever since they claimed fraud hours before ANY election results were reported. Same ploy the CIA/Mossad used in Georgia, Ukraine, ...... Interesting that the "twitter campaign" started before theannouncement of any election results and was centered from Israel.
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We shall see if the israel-firsters can massage public perception in the US. They have BIG resources to do so andare using them heavily. Meantime, it is useful to see what real US Iran experts say about the election.
Ahmadinejad won. Get over it
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/06/18/ahmadine...
Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud.
They ignore the fact that Ahmadinejad’s 62.6 percent of the vote in this year’s election is essentially the same as the 61.69 percent he received in the final count of the 2005 presidential election, when he trounced former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The shock of the “Iran experts” over Friday’s results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking.
...Like much of the Western media, most American “Iran experts” overstated Mir Hossein Mousavi’s “surge” over the campaign’s final weeks. More important, they were oblivious — as in 2005 — to Ahmadinejad’s effectiveness as a populist politician and campaigner. American “Iran experts” missed how Ahmadinejad was perceived by most Iranians as having won the nationally televised debates with his three opponents — especially his debate with Mousavi.
Before the debates, both Mousavi and Ahmadinejad campaign aides indicated privately that they perceived a surge of support for Mousavi; after the debates, the same aides concluded that Ahmadinejad’s provocatively impressive performance and Mousavi’s desultory one had boosted the incumbent’s standing. Ahmadinejad’s charge that Mousavi was supported by Rafsanjani’s sons — widely perceived in Iranian society as corrupt figures — seemed to play well with voters.
Similarly, Ahmadinejad’s criticism that Mousavi’s reformist supporters, including Khatami, had been willing to suspend Iran’s uranium enrichment program and had won nothing from the West for doing so tapped into popular support for the program — and had the added advantage of being true....
With regard to electoral irregularities, the specific criticisms made by Mousavi — .... Moreover, these irregularities do not, in themselves, amount to electoral fraud even by American legal standards. And, compared with the U.S. presidential election in Florida in 2000, the flaws in Iran’s electoral process seem less significant. -
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hyperbola4 months, 1 week ago
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China is of less interest to the israelis and "israel-firsters" in the US who try to manipulate public perception in the "west". The massive "publicity" campaign was planned and organized long before the Iranian elections.
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Are the Iranian Election Protests Another US Orchestrated‘Color Revolution’?
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/06/21/are-the-...
A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the announcement of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don’t see through this trick.
As for the grand ayatollah Montazeri’s charge that the election was stolen, he was the initial choice to succeed Khomeini, but lost out to the current Supreme Leader. He sees in the protests an opportunity to settle the score with Khamenei. Montazeri has the incentive to challenge the election whether or not he is being manipulated by the CIA, which has a successful history of manipulating disgruntled politicians.
There is a power struggle among the ayatollahs. Many are aligned against Ahmadinejad because he accuses them of corruption, thus playing to the Iranian countryside where Iranians believe the ayatollahs' lifestyles indicate an excess of power and money. In my opinion, Ahmadinejad's attack on the ayatollahs is opportunistic. However, it does make it odd for his American detractors to say he is a conservative reactionary lined up with the ayatollahs.....
Commentators are "explaining" the Iran elections based on their own illusions, delusions, emotions, and vested interests. Whether or not the poll results predicting Ahmadinejad's win are sound, there is, so far, no evidence beyond surmise that the election was stolen. However, there are credible reports that the CIA has been working for two years to destabilize the Iranian government....
On May 23, 2007...
On May 27, 2007...
On June 29, 2008...
The protests in Tehran no doubt have many sincere participants. The protests also have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine.
It requires total blindness not to see this. -
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hyperbola4 months, 1 week ago
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Daniel McAdams has made some telling points. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/027... For example, neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman wrote the day before the election that “there’s talk of a ‘green revolution’ in Tehran.” How would Timmerman know that unless it was an orchestrated plan? Why would there be a ‘green revolution’ prepared prior to the vote, especially if Mousavi and his supporters were as confident of victory as they claim? This looks like definite evidence that the US is involved in the election protests.
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Timmerman goes on to write that “the National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars promoting ‘color’ revolutions . . . Some of that money appears to have made it into the hands of pro-Mousavi groups, who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds.” Timmerman’s own neocon Foundation for Democracy is “a private, non-profit organization established in 1995 with grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to promote democracy and internationally-recognized standards of human rights in Iran.”
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Daylight4 months, 1 week ago
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The truth is Ahmed Nijard won the election hands down and will be the president of Iran and there is nothing the America or Israel can do about it. Iran is not some kind of puppet regime in the region which could be manipulated as someone wish. Israelis wanted to drag America into another war with Iran and that is not coming forth, so they have stoop to such a low tactic as this. People like Musavi must be jailed for life for being a traitor. In fact if the election results were delayed then they would have accused Iranians of some kind of fraud, now the election results came out fast still the election was fraud, either way the Zionist strategy is to win in any argument they come up with.
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calitennflo4 months, 1 week ago
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There are many in the world that view the United States holding their own elections with no secrecy of the ballot, or proof using an acceptable method of proof of an individual's vote...as there is no paper record...just some digital circuits that are not open to the public...
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Now...all countries can do the same thing as the US...get caught and blame someone else...it's the same tactic as the LA county police departments use...get into trouble...emediately get into some more, and more...to reduce the thoughts of the first incident. Such does not work for citizens...only people that are republican or democrat or have a license for a fifty caliber machine gun, etc.
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