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    Tweets from the Edge: an Iranian twitters as Tehran burns

    Follow the tragic experiences of an Iranian student on twitter as the protests in Tehran unfold: http://twitter.com/change_for_iran. I'll display the latest tweets on the right panel of this page. Here are some samples of recent tweets in chronological order:

    all cellphones now read: Emergency only - No Service! #iranelection

    police demanding people to move their cars and start crashing car windows. more people are coming. I will try to get a better view

    tear gas #iranelection

    President Potato showing his evil powers on national TV right now! speaking of peace & justice! #iranelection

    Karoubi does NOT recognize Ahmadinejad as President, and declares the election VOID & urges people to stand #iranelection

    From Qom: Reformist grand ayatolah Saneyi is in house arrest and his office phones lines answered by ministry of Intel #iranelection

    From Enghelab square my friend just called me, Police & unknown forces beating everybody for no apparent reason! #iranelection

    bastards just attacked us for no reason, I lost count of how much tear gas they launched at us! #iranelection

    typing as fastest as I can in both English & Farsi, Still we need outside help, I really don't want to be captured by Ansar #iranelection

    5:17am people outside are burning Saderat bank building or as it seems from this far #iranelection

    it's calm now outside. no more sound of sirens or chants guess people are going to work & have no more time for revolting #iranelection

    there are now rumors of mousavi's site being hacked and the whole rally is IRG's trap. gun placements at azadi square confirmed

    it's worth taking the risk, we're going. I won't be able to update until I'm back. again thanks for your kind support and wish us luck

    3:30pm basij is after us. slept in the streets last night. internet is down in most of the city #iranelection

    5 killed in the girl's dorm. we saw karoubi in person yesteday and told him about what happened. I guess we made a big mistake #IranElection

    Kasra is dead & I don't know where is masood, lost him in the crowd yesterday

    Ashora platoons now moving from valiasr toward National Tv staion. mousavi's supporters are already there. my father is out there!

    poeple in streets are talking about a fail attempt by IRG to arrest Admiral Shamkhani (Khatami's def minister) #iranelection

    we told everybody to get out and leave dorms. but most of the student got no where to go & no relatives in Tehran.

    there is no need to hide their names anymore Mobina Ehtrami, Fateme Borati, Kasra Sharafi, Kambiz Shoaee & Mohsen Imani; all killed by ansar

    summarize of khamenyi's speech: as your God we say the election was good and for your own sake you should accept it.

    @lalehz I was at mousavi's rally, it was amazing, I stimated 3M people or even more. we marched in silent to azady square to meet mousavi

    @RMandJG recount is just a way to buy more time to suppress people & stop some of them from arguing in a hope for a fair recount!

    @LisaJohnson he is OK and back at our home town, my father came to force me to return too, but he end up protesting himself & staying!

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    Thanks for this, G. Because I've been away from the computer, radio, and TV more than usual since Friday, I haven't been able to get much news and I haven't been able to dig down into the lengthier analyses online.

    There was a reader post at TPM today that suggested the use of Twitter was an Israeli conspiracy to gin up support for Mousavi so that the west will have more support for military action against Iran when the protests are over.

    These Twitter posts don't seem to support that. Any thoughts?


    Change_for_Iran has not tweeted in 21 hours. I'm concerned that something happened to him/her.