Iran Riots in Response to Rigged Election

Submitted by adil on June 16, 2009 - 12:16am.

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As I write this entry, many Iranian citizens are showing solidarity with one another in the form of mass protests/demonstrations and riots.

This is in response to the results of a rigged election.

Pictures accompanied with a small synopsis can be found here.

Communication from Tehran has been clamped down, so many Iranian citizens are blogging their viewpoints through outlets such as Twitter.

Twitter has even rescheduled their nightly downtime to allow communication to remain uninterrupted!

That's all for now though.

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it made me cry

Submitted by Jeremy M on June 16, 2009 - 3:38pm.

I checked out the photo essay that Adil linked to early this morning.

It made me cry, especially the shot of the all the women rushing to the aid of a demonstrator being beaten by the police, and the demonstrators rescueing a bloodied riot cop.

Jeremy

photos.

Submitted by lauren muffen on June 17, 2009 - 11:36am.

these photos are very powerful adil, thanks for sharing them.

I have been following along with this issue on the cbc radio, because of my summer technology diet i only have the radio and rare internet access. So i was happy to see the iranian cause being discussed on the commons.

these photos reminded me that i am alive, awake and active in the struggle against the war-archy.

peace in the east.