As the world watches the violence and post-election protests escalate in Iran, startling images from the streets of Tehran are disseminating through various social media. Many of them are tagged #iranelection, a hashtag which started on Twitter but is spreading to Flickr and elsewhere.
Since it is difficult to find photos in the sea of Tweets using the same #iranelection tag I’ve been using Twicsy, an image search engine for photos posted to Twitter which we wrote about yesterday. If you search “iranelection” or “tehran iran”, dozens of images from the protests will pop up.
Fair warning: these images are raw and unfiltered, and some of them are quite gruesome, showing people getting shot and lying in pools of blood. The most tragic one shows what is described as a woman protester bleeding to death after being shot today. This same incident was caught on someone’s video or cell phone video camera and uploaded to YouTube. (I hesitate to link to this because it is so hard to watch, but you can find it by searching for “An innocent girl was shot by Iran riot police” on YouTube).
Update: The woman is being called “Neda” and her image is becoming a symbol of Iran’s brutality against its own people. Her name is already a trending topic on Twitter. There are now at least two separate videos of her death on YouTube. Since they are spreading around on their own accord and other news organizations are linking to them, I will add them here. Again, these are highly graphic and disturbing, so consider that before you click (video uploaded June 20, video uploaded June 21).
There’s been plenty of debate about how big a role Twitter is playing in events in Iran. At the very least, it is being used as a channel to distribute information and images to the rest of the world. It is not always clear where these images come from or who took them. Some of the images are credited to professional news agencies such as the AP, Getty, Reuters, and Arabic news organizations and are being spread around by bloggers both inside and outside Iran. Others look like they were taken in haste or on a cell phone. (For other images from Iran taken by citizen photojournalists, check out Demotix/iranelection).
Below are a few images circulating on Twitter. The first one was uploaded on June 14, 2009 and has no attribution (if anyone knows the photographer, please tell me in comments). Update: The photo is by Olivier Laban-Mattei/Agence France Press/Getty Images:
This one was also uploaded on June 14, and is also uncredited. Update, this one is also Olivier Laban-Mattei from AFP:
This one was taken by Farhad Rajabali of news.gooya.com:
So was this one (Farhad Rajabali/news.gooya.com):
Beyond Twitter, you can find a slide show of Iran protest images on the New York Times. And on Flickr, Faramarz Hashemi has collected the set of #iranelection photos embedded below (some of them overlap with the ones on Twitter).
Hopefully most don’t just gobble up whatever NBC nightly news tells you. What is the basis for claiming the election was rigged?
The US seemed to turn the other way during the farce in Zimbabwe. That part of the world has zero value to the United States of Israel so we’ll just look the other way as a much worse oppressive regime continues to rape and pillage society.
Why didn’t the USA make any fuss about what went on over there.
Present the facts re: Iran’s election results. Innocent before proven guilty unless America wants you guilty.
It can’t be true that both elections were not true democratic elections or do you just have a problem with attention being paid to tyrannical leaders that call for the destruction of Israel?
I’d be exteremly surprised if the poeple picutred would actually be pro-Isreal.
Yet, I can still root for their freedom. The idiocy I am pointing out is to the original poster’s concern is that somehow our attention to this matter is artificially driven by our very real commitment to Israel in the middle east…as if that somehow invalidates the media attention to the matter. So incredibly skewed.
Yes, we are a partner with Israel and we have the common goal of seeing democracy in the middle east. This is not some Zionist neo-con conspiracy.
It can both be true that the people of Iran have no love for Israel and deserve to choose their own leaders.
Not that I think Iran’s leadership is doing Iran or the Iranian people any favours. But how is it any different to Israel’s leaders effectively pushing for the destruction of Palestine (and actually DOING it) day by day as they take Palestinian land in settlements? Is that not worse then words?
Or how about Israel bombing another democratic Middle East country (Lebanon) to hell, and it’s leaders stating they want to send it back to the dark age. Many American’s are ignorant to Israel’s role in the ME, they are not your allies in creating democracy, they are their own allies in prolonging the instability in the ME in order to grab as much land as possible.
Secondly, whilst I think a change would herald some improvements for Iranian people, and the election should be fair, the truth is the opposition is not *that much different to the ruling party. It will still be an Islamic republic, lead by more or less the same type of leaders. People seem to think the opposition is some liberal pinko’s, some of the students might be, but the actual alternative isn’t. But either way elections should be fair.
Where is the land of Palestine exactly? Can you please show me it on a map? Of course you can’t.
Why do you believe Israel took military action in Lebanon? Can you be honest at all about the factual events? Of course you can’t.
Why do you feel the need to lambaste Israel on this blog? Can you tell us what the relevancy is? Of course you can’t.
What is it that drives your disdain? Are you capable of being honest with yourself? Of course not.
1/ Maybe that is BECAUSE Israel is wiping them off the map, and has done a damn good job at keeping tools like you supporting it.
2/ Because Hezbollah kidnapped a few people they punished a whole nation. I’ve been to Lebanon since the war, I’ve seen the bombed bridges, markets, etc. It was collective punishment is all it was. For which there is no excuse. Should the US bomb all of Mexico’s infrastructure if a drug cartel kidnaps some border officers?
3/ Because you feel the need to champion their unjust and illegal actions. It’s relevant to your post.
4/ Honest with myself? What drives my disdain for Israel is the fact that they drag the whole world, particularly the Western world, and even more particularly the USA down with them, so they can steal some more shitty land they don’t even need. They are a CAUSE of insecurity in the world.
Chill out bro. Let the guy express himself instead of opressing. Go hang out with Ahmadinejad if you’re into that.
Look mr neocon. Isreal isn’t the 51st state and its about time we stopped treating it like one. Even the majority of American Jews think we should get tough with Isreal by telling to them to stop and remove settlements. There is no REASON AT ALL for Isrealis to settle on the West Bank which should be Palestinian terrority. The fact is many Palestines live under a occupation and it is a terrible situation. Does Isreal have a right to defend itself. Of course. Do they have the right to build upon others land and occupy another people. NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. So please, STFU and go back in time and live in the Bush era forever since to you Bush was prob. the greatest American president ever. Idiot.
You ask questions but already have firmly planted answers. How do people even exchange ideas with you?
Steven’s points and post are much more logical than yours Paul.
Keeping with your flow — Are you capable of having a reasoned discussion on this topic with anyone? Of course not.
Dude you tell the truth!
There has never been (in the history of the world) a country called Palestine – never. In fact, the most famous Palestinian (if such term makes sense), Yasser Arafat, was Egyptian. Palestinians are culturally the same as the other Arabs. They are arguing over land that was taken from Jordan, Syria and Egypt as buffer to protect Israel. Don’t bring Palestine into Iranian discussions – lots of Palestinian terrorists are in Iran beating people right now. Israel and Iran are THE ONLY two non-Arab countries in the middle east.
Don’t forget the 50,000 Palistinians that the Jordanians kiled in the 70s….the 300,000 Palistinians that Kuwait expelled and the 200,000 plus that Saudi Arabia expelled. They are being used as a tool against Israel by the Arabs.
They are being used a s proxy by the ARABS.
Israel is ranked top 10 country for Freedom of speech.
Iran is in complete media blackout.
Israel celebrates GAY RIGHTS, GAY Parades (largest in Europe).
In Iran “there are no homosexuals” , and if there are – they are been shot dead.
Israel ranks top 10 country for women’s equal rights.
Iran’s equal rights for women can be seen in the face of Neda.
Israel’s size is about 1/8 of the size of California. The Palestinian areas account for about 2,800 square miles.
That is a very small area – so there’s not much for either side to live on.
Justifying Killing of innocent Israelis because of illegal settlements is like saying that the proper punishment for construction without a permit is the death penalty.
Who are you to judge Mr. High and Mighty.
The US has a very large (estimated 1.5 million), very close knit Iranian-American community. I think that definitely helps spread awareness of what is going on over there.
It’s hard to prove anything when they control the police, army, media, etc.
Gov’t results of the election showed Ahmadinejad winning 2/3 of the popular vote, whereas polls showed Mousavi having a similar share of the vote less than 2 weeks prior to the election. Maybe you don’t trust the poll results…ok, fine, but even ancedotally, it looks pretty fishy that he would win such a strong majority given what was going on beforehand.
And I’m not sure why you’re blaming the US media in this circumstance. It’s the Iranian people that are taking to the streets. It’s the Iranian people who feel the election is rigged. Do you think they watched Wolf Blitzer to figure this out ? I think they know they’re own system better than we do.
I agree it’s interesting we looked the other way with Zimbabwe but Iran coverage has been non stop on all the news for the last week.
Not sure why we the USA care so much about Iran but completely ignore Mugabe’s continued terror.
@theTHINKER – seriously, do you think that those are Americans on the streets in those pictures? Those are Iranians who think that the election was rigged..
The American and other world news is just reporting what is happening there…
Proof that the election was fraud:
1. Documents leaked out – check out twitter for pics and more info.
2. 100s of thousands of demos – no verification of elections results
3. Counting 40 million paper votes in 2 hours!!
what else we can expect… all the elections results that are against Zionist backed American’s hope are all rigged… the only fare election you can see are those that make Zionist happy…
LOL at all of you literate-stupids…
Name calling is good indicator of mental and emotional maturity.
STFU
So so sad.
Hopefully most don’t just gobble up whatever NBC nightly news tells you. What is the basis for claiming the election was rigged?
I see riots, not protests. Notice the language in Western media.
The US seemed to turn the other way during the farce in Zimbabwe. That part of the world has zero value to the United States of Israel so we’ll just look the other way as a much worse oppressive regime continues to rape and pillage society.
Why didn’t the USA make any fuss about what went on over there.
Present the facts re: Iran’s election results. Innocent before proven guilty unless America wants you guilty.
Can you please shut your mouth up? Read and look what is going on in Iran before making ridiculous comments. Talk to Iranian’s in US and you would know.
LoL, very robust argument there Ujjwal!
Answer: Geo-political affairs cannot be simplified to some cookie-cutter foreign policy.
Only an anti-Semite would would a) be upset over the coverage of #iranelection and b) blame Israel for it.
Stating the facts does not make someone an anti-anything.
People accuse others of being “anti” something all too often when they can’t directly rebutt an argument.
Calling someone who takes a view contrary to your “anti” anything is weak and shows an inability to directly rebut the counterpoint.
calling someone who doesn’t share your views an anti-anything is weak and shows your inability to directly rebut an argument.
Answer: Geo-political affairs cannot be simplified to some cookie-cutter foreign policy.
Let me expand since you obviously missed it. To point out that freedom does not exist everywhere, is not an argument against pointing out that freedom does not exist in a particular place. You’re upset that people are protesting against those that hate Israel and this irks you so very much. Why?
Nice. Any legitimate critique of Isreal and you pull the anti-semite label. What are you, ADL? Please don’t kill the meaning of anti-semitism by throwing it around so freely. It only shows you don’t have the knowledge to refute the arguement presented.
Moron.
The same can be said for ad-hominem. Where exactly is the legitimate critique of Israel in what is taking place in Iran?
Again, it’s very simple. It’s very simple, your incessant desire to critique Israel on the topic of this post very “legitimately” points to anti-semitism. If you can give a coherent argument as to the fault of Israel in what just took place in Iran or the fault of Israel on the fact that a blog post exists on the subject, I would love to here it.
http://TwitCaps.com is another Twitter Image search which indexes all the images..
http://twitcaps...%23IranElection
The dangers of photos & social media – incorrect or missing photo credits!
The first one posted here is an Agence France Press & Getty image by Oliver Laban-Mattei
Even with all the limitations, many photojournalists have been able to capture some amazing images:
http://www.bost...d_election.html
http://lens.blo.../16/dateline-2/
thanks, added that
Looks like a bunch of soccer hooligans to me.
I really don’t get why you guys won’t link directly to the video, yet describe the search terms to find it. It makes absolutely no sense. Here is the NSFW video.
http://www.yout...v%3Dfmi-LePl894
If you riot (light fires, throw rocks, etc.) expect to get shot.
When Israel does this to Palestinians it’s ok. When a country is restoring order it’s wrong?!
Riiiiiiiiiight.
When Israel does this to Palestinians (who light fires, throw rocks) it is ok.
When Iran does this to restore order (fires, throw rocks) it is considered wrong?
Double standard du jour!
I kinda agree.
A lot of the pictures look like rioting, but I’ve only seen/heard the word “protest”.
The wording used by the media is always interesting to observe.
No! Just ’cause they’re showing photos of “riot” acts to you!
I’m in tehran, and because whole the Internet (almost) has got blocked I can’t really find the photos i wanted to show you.
but, search in google for “Silence AGGREGATION ” in tehran, last Thursday. about 3.5 Million people was there ( in Azadi sq. ) and ALL WAS SILENCE and saying nothing.
it’s hard to believe, but if you read the news posted about that (rueters, AP, BBC, … ) you see that was true. ypu could even hear people are BREATHING! just 10-15 buses have ?????ed ( i don’t know the word for “Firing bus”. maybe “Igniting” ) . you remember the France two years ago ?
but, event if 1000000 have ?????ed, they don’t have right ti KILL protesters or as you may like (sorry my friend! but you’re wrong ’cause you ain’t in Tehran ) the “Riots” .
sorry if my english sucks, i’m in rush!
Just saw that video – I am at a loss for words…
The name of the girl dying on camera yesterday is Neda. She will be forgotten as soon as the man in front of the tanks in Tianamen will be: never.
If you throw rocks and light fires there are going to be consequences. That’s rioting, NOT peaceful protest.
When Israel does this to Palestinan rioters it is ok.
When Iran is restoring order from rioter is is not ok.
I wished I could send (tire spikes) to those braved Iranian protesters. So they can slow/stop those biatch Basij militia riding around with motorbikes beating unarmed folks.
Not sure more violence is the answer
The photos are legit & taken by many freelance photographers.
Getty has licensed many of them:
http://www.dayl...s/1/grid?q=iran
So tragic. I only hope the Persian people get the government they deserve through this. I hope justice will happen and those asshole mullahs who oppress their people will be the ones killed and purged from power.
It’s amazing to think that we are seeing a revolution of this magnitude of importance live on Twitter, reported directly on YouTube. An amazing thing is happening in Iran right now; people are mobilized and empowered with the help of technology against a common threat of tyranny and loss of freedom.
We are watching history.
yes, we are watching history.. this is a new kind of a revolution.. hopefully things will turn out right for the people of iran!!
Unfortunately, it takes more than Twitter. It takes powerful nation states like the US to stand with those that deserve to be free. Unfortunately, the current leaders of the US have done very little for fear of “meddling.”
I hope I am wrong. I really do hope that it could be this easy.
Looks like we have a Teddy R. fan.
Us should run around policing the world cuz WE know best!
Ugh.
you are wrong. ’soft power’ is working. you are seeing it in action. the hardliners can’t as easily demonize the US and instead focus shifts back to their poor governance.
obama is doing just fine.
Again, I hope you are right. Don’t let your passion for your messiah see through the fact that we both hope for the same thing…
messiah? i am agnostic.
If only Teddy Roosevelt were in office he could give each American a nice fat righteous stick we could use to beat the American Way into other countries
Once again you are a moron of epic proportions. So you want Obama to grandstand and express total support for Mousavi, which will only give the Iranian govt. a excuse to label the opposition as foreign agents?? You want to kill these freedom fighters so you can feel better about yourself?
Have the leaders of the opposition asked us to meddle? They haven’t, and that is for good reason. Iranians have a history of foreigners destroying and overthrowing their governments.
Even Kissinger thinks Obama is handling this right.
But you, epic moron right wing parisan hack and neocon Paul Walker thinks Obama should show support. Stick to driving cars in fast and furious movies. That is all your brain can handle. Drop the politics and for the sake of the USA, never go into government. Idiot.
I living@ Tehran.
We are extremely under attack.
They shoot everyone ; whether be old or young, man or woman …
They do not, no one uterus.
They kill the Iranian people are not Iranian.
We really need your Help from ALL AROUND THE WORLD *
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Their bravery and strength of will is truly a beautiful thing to witness. We wish them the best.
Why America is so much interested in Iran
Many of us believe in the unalienable rights of all for freedom. Some of us still believe we are blessed with ours.
Searching for a conspiracy theory? Which countries would you suggest America should be interested in? Canada, UK? Freedom is welcome news in Iran and Iranians, who are not Arabs, are naturally much better aligned with US of A.
GOD BLESS THEM !!!! It goes to show how People Power works
Hmm, US economy sucks balls right about now. What do we do whenever our economy is in the shitter….we WAR. It’s the American way.
Let’s see if Obama goes into Iran under the guise of some righteous bullshit. CIA is already doing the equivalent of dropping pamphlets so I wonder what’s next.
Probably not a good idea. In case you missed it, the US has TWO on-going wars. One war in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan. We often forget about these wars since it’s not plastered over the news.
The election in Iran is a sham. What do you expect from an totalitarian regime?
However, the US can’t be policing the world. Then US can’t ignore global events either.
All the tweets can be a bit overwhelming, so it’s hard to see what’s true. Flackr combines the pics with tweets from trusted sources at http://flackr.net/s/ftfb
I think it’s amazing how things have changed with cameras everywhere, internet social media, and technology. No longer can communication be easily censored.
“You can’t stop the signal” – Serenity (Movie)
I often think it would be awesome to air drop cheap video cameras that uploaded immediately…
I agree! One of the coolest things about the images of the protests is that you see 10 more cameras / phones being held up.
FYI, I’m seeing comments disappearing. Seems like there is a glitch.
BTW, love the lively debate!
“Twitter didn’t save Iran. Iran saved Twitter.”
– Bill Maher
These are from BBC Persian :
http://bit.ly/ueLhc
With millions photo and video-enabled phones and the power of the Social Media, dictatorships and censorships are having much harder times these days. This is a big win for the democracy and humanity!
Thanks Erick for the coverage. I read this entry on the Washington Post.
Since I started uploading images of the #iranelection on the day after the election, a commendable 1.4 millions views has been tallied and growing.
What strikes me about this post, its late. ( 14th June is the most likely date of protests starting, not 20th )
It does a nice job of reusing http://twicsy.com/ in another post ( cool but as you say creepy )
I would go out on a limb and say all the pictures shown in this post are from days immediately after the election.
With “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s” very thinly veiled threats of violence if people continued. ( Ie on Saturday ) The displaying of these images could be misconstrued as coming from then. Which is not quite true.
Yes twitter / twicsy / flickr and the rest give us great uncensored raw photos, but for me they lack credibility and time lines.
Wow, a remarkable set of images.
we have no internet access in Iran … it’s so hard to follow the news and photos. please help us all around the world.
Wow my god …! unfair election .
There is a new revolution in Iran even if Obama support or not but if in Iran we have a democratic government most of the issues in Middle-East will be over, since you Ahmadinejad is dangerous for Iran and people of Middle-East, this protests and people fighting with Government is showing the world that Government of Iran is not chosen by Iranians. Also I want to emphasize that It’s a revolution in Iran for It’s democracy and peace with the world. So sad to hear some of your comments, disappointing, but thanks to other friends who care about peace and democracy in the world.
http://www.yout...h?v=sMxFa6-6gJ4
Sooner or later it will probably suffer the the problem of all unedited image search engines – clutter and manipulation make it unusable.
Who said the economy crisis was bad?
It’s amazing how the chain of events has sometimes unexpected resulted.
One should remember that the problems in Iran economy started soon after the oil prices drop from $120 a gallon to $30.
It’s all about timing.
Spin story from western medias, been there, done that, I don’t trust them anything. Yes, Iran might have some internal problems and collisions between Islamic fractions and US just use the situations to destabilize the country and that is it. And you believe them? After all, have they found those mass distraction weapon in Iraq, I can’t remember?
And who do you support? Do you know anything abut the Iran Government? Musavi is not some “democratic” candidate. All presidential candidates must be approved by the Islamic Council of Guardians and the true leader of Iran is
The Supreme Leader. http://en.wikip...nt_and_politics It is just internal political fight that US is using to destabilize the country.
There are no any elections in Saudi Arabia but you never heard US talks about human rights in Arabia, have you? It is all about interests, human rights, democracy, those are all just terms that they use when needed to justify their actions, they don’t really care about them.
I feel sorry for Iranian people, both sides, because they will pay the price after all, not you with that “green” avatar. You will just switch to the next big story that CNN serves you.
Your points are so diffuse they are off-the-mark.
The issue here is that many Americans stand in solidarity with the people of Iran who thirst for greater freedom. This is more than political wrangling to some of us, and we do not require the news networks to determine what is going on.
Iran is a demographically young country, ruled by geriatric theocrats. The young people in Iran are sick of the mullahs and want change. That they’ve seized on Mousavi as a symbol of their hope may or may not be politically astute, but given what choices they had it’s certainly understandable.
Changing the subject to some nonsense about US foreign policy and media coverage misses the forest for the trees: these young people are our best hope for a more peaceful world and we should support them.
Our best hope for a more peaceful world are not Iranians but US Government and President that will not bomb every second country in the world under false claims repeated continuously by CNN and other medias.
What about young people and women in Saudi Arabia, why are you not concerned about them? What rights do they have in Arabia? They don’t even have electric chairs and gas chambers, they still cut heads off. But they are good allies to the US and no one cares.
You do not support young people in Iran, because not all young people voted Mosavi, otherwise he would win easily, because Iran really is demographically young country. So you just support one half of the people in Iran because someone claims the elections was stolen and CNN, BBC and others are spinning the story. What about all those Iranians that voted Ahemdinejad, what about their opinions and their rights to vote? Why are you weighting those votes less then the votes for Mosavi?!
True election victory can’t be stolen, you don’t have to worry about that. Iran will change in following years, that is for sure, I just please US citizens, and most of them can’t pin point Iran on the map, to leave that country alone to find its way to freedom. Just don’t “help” them like you “helped” Iraq.
PageTracer, get a clue. No one is supporting Mousavi or Ahmedinejad, just the right of people to get a fair election. The general consensus is that the election was rigged.
What annoying me is that there are problems and rigged elections all over the world, but suddenly everyone is just interested in Iran. That is what bothers me. You are not some great believers in democracy and free world, you just accept mainstream that Iran elections are rigged (”The general consensus?” Where? On twitter? On CNN?)
When elections are rigged by some pro-US leader, you don’t even blink, because you don’t even know about that. It is not served to you on the way Iranian elections was served.
Ok again and again.
Here a real slideshow with iran photgraphers.
http://www.jimi...mp;numeroClip=1
Iran is the issue here. Her people are under attack. we should be focused on them instead of making this a geopolitical debate. i wish them well. fantastic set of images from twicsy. looks like a useful ap. schnitz
Green Revolution Hits Twitter.
The Pakistani nation hand-in-hand with the prominent Pakistani bloggers has turned towards twitter to enjoy the cricket – they call it twicket.
Please Digg if you appreciate this story.
http://digg.com...on_Hits_Twitter
You can also view photos from #iranelection alongside tweets containing #iran election here, http://bit.ly/13stY6.
“I certainly hope to hell the US would take military action to stop it” – Paul Walker
That’s is the REAL point. Why spend all that bla, bla, bla when the only thing you really want is to send the troops?!
“I can say that I hope for a peaceful Middle East that includes the existence of Israel and a future state of Palestine.” – Paul Walker
Yeah, nice. But let’s send our troops before, right?!
“Can you please shut your mouth up?” – Ujjwal Gupta
Yeah, shut up your mouth or US will bomb you!
“Yes, we are a partner with Israel and we have the common goal of seeing democracy in the middle east.” – Paul Walker
“Our” (US) democracy, of course. But shut up! Let’s get our arms, call our Israeli friends, drink some beer and make some democracy in Iran! That will be fun, heh!
“Geo-political affairs cannot be simplified to some cookie-cutter foreign policy” – Paul Walker
Of course not. Shut up and send the troops!
Unfortunately, the current leaders of the US have done very little for fear of “meddling.” – Paul Walker
YES, you are completely right! And where are our f*** troops?!
“Don’t let your passion for your messiah…” – Paul Walker
Wow! That’s it! Iran is just an example to the rest of the world, incluind US! Lets make the same here!!! Let’s call all our KKK friends and kill that messiah-niggah!!
What we need is another kind of messiah which spread our “democracy” and save the world just sending our troops! Shut up and spread the American Way! Kill da niggah!
“Many of us believe in the unalienable rights of all for freedom. Some of us still believe we are blessed with ours.” – Paul Walker
Don’t forget our unalienable right to carry a gun and kill all the f*** poor. And in doubt shoot before ask!
“I often think it would be awesome to air drop cheap video cameras that uploaded immediately…” – Paul Walker
…and exploded like a bomb when touching the floor!
“The above was in reply to Robert who… ” – Paul Walker
“Correction, Steven…not Robert.” – Paul Walker
Correction again, Not Robert, but everybody! Let’s kill all these f*** poor! Shut up and send our troops right now!
Really enjoying http://www.twicsy.com/ myself – It is living proof that specialist search engines are so much more powerful than Google.
I have been following using twitter search, twicsy, and of course TweetMeme Search (of course!)
http://tweetmem...amp;media=image (for images)
http://tweetmem...amp;media=video (for video)
As an Iranian I did not vote Ahmadinejad. I’m angry that my candidate is not winner but I approve official results. I really believe that election was free and clear.
It’s true that many young people hate Ahmadinejad but he has many supporters in towns and rural regions.
Protesters have not any acceptable reason or document prove the election was not democratic.
They only repeat and repeat again that Ahmadinejad couldn’t be winner. we had at least 30,000,000 votes, He is a dictator and so on…
Also before election all of polls stated that Ahmadinejad is winner.
I’m wrong about violence in Tehran streets. Hope everything became usual.
Thanks Mr. Basiji. You should have been in the street shooting at innocent people now rather than commenting here in techcrunch. What the **** are you talking about? I did not know Iranian Govermenet’s Basij militia monitor techcrunch also.
You manage to say nothing, reinforcing the poster’s original point.
All hype, no substance.
In case there are still some out there with doubts that the election was rigged, this video summarizes the reasons as to why it was: http://www.yout...feature=related
it is truly amazing how the internet is being used to show just how bad it is when a government doesn’t want you to know.
I don’t know if the government of Iran will fall because of this but it sure has a big problem on its hands
http://www.yout...h?v=sMxFa6-6gJ4
We win!! didin’t our government invent the internet?
This week, the world will mourn Neda.
well there is no prove that the elections were rigged. Its just the shameful political act by Mousavi that is not to accept defeat and start protesting without caring bout the country and the people. If he is so sure that the elections were not fair why didn’t he go to courts rather than coming to streets and urge people to do the same. And those people who are saying that Us should take some actions, who the hell is US to do anythin with a country’s internal matters? All the western media is tryin there best to destabilize the iran cause its the only daring muslim country which rejects to take any pressure from Israil or USA.
So please stop tryng to disturb Iran’s internal matters and do the complete research before concluding any decision regrading the authenticity of the elections.
!! Peace !!
This is a cyber war in the flesh.
I pushed
http://iranelection.org/
last week…… and have been getting pretty decent feedback.
Kevin
Thanks for this article! Like you, I’ve had issues using search to find anything, especially around such high volume topics as the iran elections. You’ve done a nice job with Twicsy compiling images in the sea of tweets.
I found using TipTop search results for “iran protests” http://feeltipt...ran%20protests/ or “iran elections” I can filter results through concepts which TipTop extracts from the text messages, such as:
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Viewing message content organized into categories (like “web pages” “people” and “places”) is also handy to quickly get websites and video links. Or you could just search http://feeltipt...m/iran%20video/ to get highly relevant results.
Whatever tools one uses, the role of social media and online distribution has reached a critical mass and freedom of speech around the world is all the better for it.
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If Mexico cartels were continuing firing rockets into San Diego (where my family lives), I certainly hope to hell the US would take military action to stop it.
Your anger and ability to distort the truth reveals a malignant and almost militant cancer…what drives this passion?
I can say that I hope for a peaceful Middle East that includes the existence of Israel and a future state of Palestine. I don’t think you can.
Don’t be shy now…
The above was in reply to Robert who ended his wonderful post with:
“They [Israel] are a CAUSE of insecurity in the world.”
In other words, “If only Israel and the Jews would go away, all would be right with the world.”
When you find your thoughts aligning with those of Ahmadinejad and Hitler, it may be time to rethink your political opinion…nay, your morality.
Dude, shut up.
If you bulldoze my house and give my land to “settlers”.
Both Israel and the other side have fucked up. Neither care to admit it.
Correction, Steven…not Robert.
Perhaps in your rant you forget Hezbollah does not equal Hamas. Hezbollah was not ‘continually’ firing rockets into Israel before, nor was the democratically elected Lebanese Government. It is true that Hezbollah occasionally took part in cross border attacks, just as Israel HAS and still DOES in Lebanon.
The disproportionate response on civilian infrastructure, populations and the entire Lebanese population (which exists of many political parties and sects and a GOVERNMENT that does not align with Hezbollah) is not justified, legal or humane. Just as bulldozing peoples houses, evicting them from their land, depriving them of the most basic supplies, etc is not justified, legal or humane. You seem to believe in some ‘unalienable’ rights but not others. Funny that.
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Furthermore, perhaps in your hast to reply you forget to realise I did not use the word sole. To say something is a cause for insecurity, does not mean it is the ONLY cause of ALL insecurity. But, relevant to the ME and US foreign policy there it is a very large cause no doubt.
Of course no debate about Israel’s illegal settlements would be complete without referring to me as Hitler, so I am glad you got that out of the way.
Bob
Wisdom,knowledge!
What will be the “proprotionate” response when Mexican military will kidnap U.S. soldiers from San Diego , and killing 3 other soldiers without provocation?
Rest assure, it will be much more dramatic than the Israeli one. I think the Israeli military was TOO SOFT, as Hezbollah declared war by attacking Israeli soldiers on the Israeli side.
Hezbollah is a terrorist group, fighting as and from civil infrastructure – so Israel must destroy ‘civil’ infrastcuture and kill ‘civilians” to win the war that was brought upon them.
Democracy in Lebanon? You’ve gotta be kidding. Hezbollah is doing whatever it wants, in a land of its own, and no Lebanese government can enforce its will on it.