Iranian Election Aftermath: What I’m Reading
June 16th, 2009
Xeni asked me to compile a list of what I’m reading regarding the Iranian election and its insane aftermath.
Beyond the obvious traditional media (NYT, BBC, NPR, PRI), these are mainly what I’m paying attention to:
Twitter:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near%3ATehran+within%3A15mi
http://irantwitters.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/mousavi1388
Related: http://youtube.com/mousavi1388 and http://flickr.com/mousavi1388 and http://sites.google.com/site/mousavi1388/
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html
US State Department told Twitter to change its update time
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSWBT01137420090616
Main sites:
Established Media:
Who’s Fighting Who in Iran’s Struggle? / TIME / By TRITA PARSI / Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2009
Don’t Assume Ahmadinejad Really Lost / TIME /
By Robert Baer / Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2009
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/16/the_latest_from_iran
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/activists-launch-hack-attacks-on-tehran-regime/
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/15/iran-twitter-election-protest.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gwK_EuNzTIprZY2jflxyVN5G8PYQ
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html
Other online media:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/06/15/iran-protests-and-repression/
http://reinikainen.co.uk/2009/06/iranelection-cyberwar-guide-for-beginners/
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/iran-does-have-some-fishy-numbers.html
Finally:
http://occident.blogspot.com/2009/06/confirmed-montazeri-questions-election.html
On a related note, here’s a little info on Ayatollah Montazeri’s history of dealing with online attacks from the Islamic regime. The following is from an unpublished draft section of my forthcoming book, “The Internet of Elsewhere” (Rutgers University Press, 2010):
The shift for Iranian online speech came in December 2000, when dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, a former architect of the Islamic Revolution, published a 600-page Persian-language memoir on his website, montazeri.com, while under house arrest. In this manifesto, Montazeri criticized the very foundations of the Islamic Republic that he helped to create, and accused Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, of executing thousands of political opponents in 1988. The government responded by setting up a similar site at montazery.com, which denounced Montazeri and represented the views of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This represented a turning point, as it was the first time that the government directly responded to an online ‘threat’ from someone else.
Sources:
Feel free to leave additional links in the comments!
June 16th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Thanks for the great list; I knew you’d have something to say soon. Andrew Sullivan has been all over this story, too. He’s even changed the theme of his blog to green in solidarity with the protesters.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/
June 16th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
i would add
the NYTime’s the Lede blog http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/
Kristof’s NYTimes blog http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/the-violence-in-iran/
Andrew Sullivan’s the daily dish http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
and Nico’s Huff Post blog — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
these blogs have links to all the latest relevant articles as well.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
plz send to me your leater
June 17th, 2009 at 2:25 am
koodetaye 23 khordad 1388
June 17th, 2009 at 2:26 am
koodetaye 23 khordade 1388
June 17th, 2009 at 2:36 am
Thanks for this. You’ve been a good guide.
June 17th, 2009 at 3:18 am
TOO tehran badbakh shodim..!! asan shaba nemitunim berim birun,mitasim gardia marO bokoshan.!! har dafe dusam bem zang mizanan migan hanu koshte nashodi?!! akhe in che vaziee..!! ahmadi nejadam asan be ruye khodesh nemiaree..!! hame midunim ke taghalob shode,bedune shak..!!
June 17th, 2009 at 8:01 am
[...] status updates, for lack of better understanding of Iranian online culture. Do yourself a favor, try the list Cyrus compiled, instead. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 8:20 am
[...] status updates, for lack of better understanding of Iranian online culture. Do yourself a favor, try the list Cyrus compiled, instead. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
chera nemikhan befahman k melat az dasteshun khaste shoda.
vaghean in basijiya khejalat nemikeshan ba ham vatanashun intor raftar mikonan?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:41 am
[...] He kindly obliged. As Jon Stewart aptly lampooned on last night’s Daily Show, cable news networks seem to be having a grand time pointing to random Facebook and MySpace status updates, for lack of better understanding of Iranian online culture. Do yourself a favor, try the list Cyrus compiled, instead. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 9:34 am
[...] Now to Iran, where chaos reigns. Twitter has become the uprising’s lifeline; the Obama administration asked the company to continue serving protesters. The government crackdown is getting more fierce and an extremely graphic video of a murdered student protester has surfaced on YouTube. For more on Iran, follow Nico Pitney’s liveblog, read up on why Obama’s staying quiet, and check out Iran/Internet expert Cyrus Farivar’s reading list. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 10:36 am
[...] status updates, for lack of better understanding of Iranian online culture. Do yourself a favor, try the list Cyrus compiled, instead. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Is there anything we (private persons outside Iran) can do to help the dissidents? That regime needs to be overthrown for everybody’s sake, before it starts a nuclear war.
June 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
http://mujahidjohar.blogspot.com/2009/06/iran-in-danger-place-to-start.html
I’ve got more stuff to read here. Added some of your links onto it. Thanks
June 17th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
[...] was written in a bit of a rush before I jet. Here are a couple more links: Here’s a list of good info links Lyn Jeffery of IFTF writes Field Notes on the Iran Twitter Stream. And Hillary Clinton Defends [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
[...] Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing, I found a great set of resources for following the events up close: Cyrus’ list. Also, Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic has been providing up-to-the-second coverage. Lastly, [...]
June 18th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Cyrus, nice list. You should check out http://latimes.com/iran (frequent updates from the LA Times Middle East bureau chief Borzou Daragahi from Tehran) and http://latimes.com/iranaz — our Iran A-Z aggregation page of English-language Iran news from around the world.
June 18th, 2009 at 2:51 am
[...] susturulsa da, protestocular ?nternet’i yeni bir cephe olarak kullanmay? ba?arabiliyorlar. Cuyrus Farivar ?ran as?ll? Amerikal? bir gazeteci. Olan bitenleri takip etti?i yerlerden olu?an çok [...]
June 18th, 2009 at 4:14 am
hich kas toye in sazemane melel ya sazemane hoghoghe bashar nist be dade ma irania berese dige halam az in donyaye bi ghanoon be ham mikhore chera javoonaye ma bayad bemiran ? chon mikhan esteghlal dashte bashan?
June 18th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
baba khaste shodim az in Ahmadi nejad,tamoome donia mige harki joz ahmadi baz az roo nemire baba bekesh kenar dge base,
June 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
aga mousavi ta lagve entekhabat va refrandome jadid rahat ra edame bede khaste shodim az ahmadi nejad ,raes jomhore man agaye mousavi ast ne kase dige .ahmadi nejad beravad felestin baraye onha raes jomhor beshavad.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I’ve been compiling for the past four days or so:
http://delicious.com/theredex/iranelection
It’s not everything, but it’s a lot of what has come up through the HuffPost, BoingBoing, Twitter, etc. Unorganized except for date/alphabetical but what can you do.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:56 am
hi i want my vote back onlyyyyyyyyyyy
June 19th, 2009 at 8:00 am
salam man ray nadadam vaseinke midonestam ina mikhan joloye khabarnegaraye khareji poz bedan eykash shomahaham midonestido alan raye 40 melyoniro be rokh ma nemikeshidan
June 19th, 2009 at 11:37 am
ey baba nemidonam chera in dolat az roo nemire be ghole mosavi ina padidean
kheili jalebe
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:26 am
maa hame araazelo obaashim . maa hame khaso khashakim ke faghat baraaye na goftan be ….. ra’y daadim vali nafahmidano baahaash poz daadan . mage baa nazare obaash ham mishe poz daad?
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 am
Iran’s South Azadegan Oilfield – largest discovery in thirty years in Middle East! – Sold to China! ( Americans eat your hearts out!) Question: Does Iran harbor “Secret” nukes installed by Chinese to protect this investment? balance America’s “Secret” Nukes in Israel? Balance the “Mutual Destruction” equation in the Middle East? Two “Secrets” on the plains of Armageddon? Does China play well on the international politics chess board? Do the Ayatollahs have the “Upper Hand” in their own land? Did they make a good deal with China and relieve pressures from U.S.? Is all else just “Saber Rattling” of American propagandists, smarting from their sound defeat? You tell me!