Sunday, June 14, 2009

Heart-breaking immediacy...


...reading tweets from Tehran Univ students as they are under attack.

Photos.
More photos.

Twitter: "Live from my window. It is so sad. No ambulance and people need help." ... "Bastards just attacked us for no reason."

From the 60s, the revolution will not be televised ... but maybe it'll be tweeted.

And detail from a blog:

Late last night, I went out to one area in Tehran and that one got a bit ugly. You had pro-Mousavi protesters moving out, smashing windows and facing off with a group of individuals who are described as vigilante because they were not wearing uniforms. They were plain clothes, carrying baseball bats. They were carrying metal pipes, and they were just beating up anyone that was that was in that area. Today, I went to a second protest...probably the most violent that I've seen, that we have seen. We went to an area in midtown, where we saw hundreds of pro-Ahmadinejad protesters. The difference here is that these protesters again did not wear any uniforms who identified they were except for the Iranian flag that they were waving. They were on motorcycles. There were some on foot but again, they had weapons. No uniforms but they had weapons such as metal pipes, and they were actually just driving around, intimidating people, beating up people, anyone that was in the street, anyone that was in the road, anyone that dared to chant "Mousavi, Mousavi," they were beating them senseless.

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One woman called all this "an apocalyptic novel played out in tweets..."

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