Iranian Professors Arrested by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Thugs

The spinless, fearful Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thug crew simply will not tolerate freedom.

Iran university professors 'held'

About 70 university professors have been detained by Iranian authorities after meeting Mir Hossein Mousavi, according to a website affiliated to the defeated presidential candidate.

The Kalemeh website said on Thursday that it was not clear where the detainees had been taken after they were seized the previous day.

"Mousavi had a meeting with the country's ... professors after which 70 people present in that meeting were arrested," the website said.

Hundreds of protesters, political activists and journalists are believed to have been taken into custody since protests broke out over the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president in the country's June 12 poll.

Iran in the Gulf and Translate 4 Iran

New sources of information are coming out daily. Naturally, all of this is bigger than one person, or even one country, but peace in the Middle East. In this case, Iran. A few years, and to a large degree still, Iraq, but the region on the whole is replete with killers in charge. There is North Korea, China, and various African countries under tyranny and oppression.

A tip of the hat to a good friend to freedom regarding the next two blogs.

• Iran in the Gulf
  Perspectives on Iran's place in the post-Saddam Middle East, with an eye towards the Gulf.



• Translate 4 Iran
  The Translation and Interpretation Initiative for Iranian Protesters (TIIIP) is an ad hoc initiative to produce free, publication-ready translations and high-quality interpretations of the written and spoken communication streaming out of Iran in the Farsi (Persian) language in the form of e-mails, YouTube videos, Facebook entries, press releases, etc. We leverage volunteer translators, interpreters, linguists, bilinguals, and technical and administrative support personnel to achieve these goals. Our approach is similar to crowdsourcing, but with greater emphasis on the use of professional translators, writers, and editors. Our platform is the wiki. We make liberal use of social media such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate and to attract attention to our initiative.

Neda Salehi Agha Soltan News - Her Boyfriend Interviewed (video)

Who was Neda? Slain woman an unlikely martyr
CNN - ‎40 minutes ago‎
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- The young woman who last weekend emerged as a powerful symbol of opposition to the Iranian government embraced life in many ways, but there was little about her that would have led her friends to predict she would become a martyr, ...

Video: Fiance tells of Neda's last moments - 23 Jun 09 Al Jazeera



Neda Salehi Agha Soltan's story touches everyone except Iran's rulers Times Online
Times of India - Jerusalem Post - Bloomberg - Wikipedia: Death of Neda Agha-Soltan

Twitter #neda - Help Block Censorship

Please set your Twitter location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians’ access to the Internet. (Cut, paste, and pass it on. Thanks.)

Major News Mentions of Neda Salehi

Major News Mentions of Neda Salehi

1. In Iran, one woman - Neda - becomes a symbol


2. Neda, young girl killed in Iran, becoming symbol of rebellion, NY Daily News


3. http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/21/iran_news


4. "'Neda' becomes rallying cry for Iranian protests". http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/iran.woman.twitter/. Retrieved on June 21, 2009. 


5. "'Neda' becomes rallying cry for Iranian protests". CNN. June 21, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/iran.woman.twitter/. Retrieved on June 21, 2009. 


6. Chua-eoan, Howard (June 21, 2009). "What the World Didn't See in Tehran". Time. ISSN 0040-718X. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906040,00.html. Retrieved on June 21, 2009. 


7. "Iran TV says 10 died in protests". BBC. June 21, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8111352.stm. Retrieved on June 21, 2009. "Witness accounts on Saturday suggested police used live rounds, batons, tear gas and water cannon to break up demonstrations which went on late into the night. Among unconfirmed material posted on the internet after Saturday's protests, a brief graphic video clip appearing to show a teenage girl dying from a wound, has fuelled anti-government feelings. The girl, who has been called Neda, had been protesting with her father in Tehran when she was shot." 


8. "Neda: The Voice of Iran" (in English). http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2009/06/neda-the-voice-of-iran/. Retrieved on June 20, 2009. 


9. "Iranian Womans Martyrdom Told on Facebook Spreads Protests". Digital Journal (Newstex LLC). June 20, 2009. 


10. "Young girl being killed by plainclothes". http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0db_1245519048. Retrieved on June 22, 2009. 


11. "Girl Shot by Police - Second Angle". http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe5_1245534854. Retrieved on June 22, 2009. 


12. "Neda befor she was shot". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHT37pQmmE. Retrieved on June 21, 2009. 

Articles about Neda Salehi

Articles about Neda Salehi

• "Les images de la mort de Neda bouleverse le web – Metro". http://www.metrofrance.com/infos/les-images-de-la-mort-de-neda-bouleverse-le-web/mifu!sog2irqCVnXgk/. Retrieved on June 21, 2009.


• "Neda, la ragazza uccisa a Teheran diventa il simbolo della rivolta – esteri – Repubblica.it". http://www.repubblica.it/2009/06/sezioni/esteri/iran-5/iran-5/iran-5.html. Retrieved on June 21, 2009.


• "Deaths confirmed in Iran unrest". Aljazeera.net. June 21, 2009. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/06/200962183455848331.html. Retrieved on June 21, 2009. "Reports on community-driven websites such as Twitter claim a number of protesters were killed by police in the clashes. One video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday alleged to show a teenage girl – being called Neda – dying on the street after being shot by police. Al Jazeera was unable to verify the authenticity of the video or other reports of violence due to an official ban on independent reporting in the capital. However, on blogs and social-networking websites, Neda was being held up as a symbol and a martyr for the protesters."


• "Aufruhr im Iran : Neda, die Märtyrerin – Politik – STERN.DE". http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/:Aufruhr-Iran-Neda,-M%E4rtyrerin/704202.html. Retrieved on June 21, 2009.


• "Le Figaro – International : Neda, martyre de la contestation et icône du web". http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/06/21/01003-20090621ARTFIG00119-neda-martyre-de-la-contestation-et-icone-du-web-.php. Retrieved on June 21, 2009.


• "Sterben in Iran: Neda, die Ikone des Protests – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Politik". http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,631670,00.html. Retrieved on June 21, 2009.


• "In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences". Time.com. June 21, 2009. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906049,00.html. Retrieved on June 21, 2009.

Neda Salehi, an Innocent, Murdered by Iran #neda

Iran is lead by evil men. While corruption and voting are not new bedfellows, or unique to Iran (Chicago is famous for this, especially under Mayor Richard J Daley's Democratic Machine), murder is less common. Not in Iran. Not under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

original posted here

Basiji sniper takes out teenage Iranian girl amid protest, Tehran, Saturday 20 June

Yesterday, Neda Salehi Agha Soltan was killed by Iranian militia. What will the USA do? I'm not sure what, or if, we should do anything. Our recent history intervening has not been good. However, our longer history of involvement shows that when we do nothing, things get worse. And we also know that when we entered both WWI and WWII, America was instrumental in ending both wars.

In 1956, Russian soldiers killed thousands of Hungarians who wanted their own country back. The USA stood passive, and Soviet forces won. Freedom was denied as those with the willingness to kill prevailed.

More currently was the USA's ignoring of the 1994 genocide of Rwandans, made famous by the movie Hotel Rwanda. (my review)

Whatever we do or do not do is only one question. The greater question is what will happen globaly as militant Islam grows, and countries like Iran continue to struggle with thugs like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neda_(Iranian_protester)

Basiji sniper takes out teenage Iranian girl amid protest, Tehran, Saturday 20 June #neda

Basiji sniper takes out teenage Iranian girl amid protest, Tehran, Saturday 20 June.

Young woman murdered by leaders in Iran. (originally posted here)



After a major security blunder in which a member of the Iranian Basij (volunteer) militia was photographed firing live rounds at protesters, apparently a new tactic is in place: snipers. In this amateur video, a girl thought to be in her teens collapses during protest, no one suspects she's been shot, someone shouts: "take her away in a car", the crowd circles around her, her eyes gaze upwards bilaterally - a sign that she is probably in hemodynamic shock. This precedes uppper GI tract hemorrhage, consistent with internal injury, possibly due to bullet impact. She reportedly died on the scene. There is not much chance she could have survived, even if she had been rushed to a clinic. She has been referred to as Neda Salehi
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