Here is an appeal from Amir, who is of Iranian extraction:
Could you please ask your readers, the ones which are technically
capable to set up proxy services for IP ranges inside Iran? These
addresses can be sent to some of the people who are using
facebook/twitter from Iran. All mobile phones are down and this is the
only means of communication from Iran.
It would also be helpful if you could post the proxy information on
twitter under #iranelection with the word proxy in your tweet.
Some
people in Iran seem to have access to twitter via other proxies, so
they'll spread the word and addresses. The current proxies are
gradually being blocked. Some are complaining that they are on their
last proxy.
Here is a recent tweet from Change_in_Iran:
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using freegate now, nothing else working. no power in most of the buildings & cellphones & land lines are out again. #iranelection
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There
is a chance that they may find a way to stop freegate, in which case
we'll be completely shut off from what's happening in Iran. This is really the only useful thing I could think of which we could do right now for those currently in Iran.
[Another tweet from Change in Iran:
we have now some students with urgent need of medical attention I'm calling out to all ppl who can come here don't leave us ]
Is all this what it seems? A very very interesting post at Moon of Alabama: ttp://www.moonofalabama.org/2009/06/some-dots-you-may-connect.html Mousavi, Gorbanichar, Feith, Ledeen, the Contras, Franklin, color coded revolutions…
Ghorbanifar
who cares about an entire nation being hijacked by holocaust denying, a-bombing, religion fundamentalizing freaks? let's continue to discuss 6 retarded drunken american wiggers…
There were more than ten thousand election observers from all parties – both national and international – in this election, so any irregularity would have been obvious and would have been announced and pronounced immediately. But the dispute by Mr. Mousavi ends up in a very limited area in Tehran's streets (the capital) through a physical demonstration. Posted by: Outraged | Jun 14, 2009 8:43:42 AM | 8 http://www.moonofalabama.org/2009/06/more-on-the-... Seems like someone accidentally switched on the artificial snow machine. :-) Not really the right season for it.
This thought occurred to me today. There were tweets coming out of Tehran (the accounts existed long before this happened) that (1) some of the guards/police in the streets did not speak Farsi, only Arabic …. and there was an attempt to ask if they might come from Lebanon or Palestine. "Paid mercenaries?" People forget that native born Israelis speak Arabic too. (2) the young Iranian twitterer was warning there were rumor campaigns set up with phony Twitter accounts that were false. No further details. Just a warning. It makes you wonder how, if the Internet and cell phones were shut down, how info could get out; ALTHOUGH Christiane Amanpour and Roger Cohen were able to get their broadcasts out. One kid in Tehran in his tweet said that he needed to shut down for a while because they were looking for satellites in use, so maybe some of those twitterers were using satellite service, which the government couldn't shut down.
If they are using a proxy, they need to change it constantly because of packet sniffing for excess traffic and GPS location.
good one mrw—the guards/police on the street were israeli!!! of course!!! because of course there are israelis who speak arabic (and presumably the hundred thousands persian israelis have forgotten their farsi) genius!! perhaps they were the same israelis who planned 9/11!
MRW you are a nut case, yes it was those darn Zionists again, this time in Iran. What do you think they were doing there exactly? I bet it was them who disabled the mobile phones and started all the riots and such. Wow you are a treat.
I haven't seen anyone claim that Iran has disconnected itself from the internet. There have been claims of specific web sites being blocked (Facebook, at first; Twitter still seems to be accessible, if the posts at #Change_for_Iran are reliable). CNN probably still uses satellites. Change_for_Iran has claimed to be "under attack by Ansar-Hezbolah", which, if true, means that Ahmedinejad (or whoever is pulling his strings) has brought in foreign mercenaries to deal with protesters.
A different perspective to consider: Dashing Fabricated Hopes: The Meaning of Ahmadinejad's Victory http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/14-5
It is reports of these kind that make me feel suspicious about what has been taking place in Iran. Just about every where our country has gotten involved in this world in places where we do not like the leadership, we are usually trying to create division, chaos, and revolutions. And if that doesn't work, than we are known to resort to "pre-emptive" wars in the name of protecting our freedoms and interests : Talking to Iran will make it “easier to sell” war on Iran, says man responsible for talking to Iran http://pulsemedia.org/2009/06/12/talking-to-iran-...
Just as loony to claim that because someone speaks Arabic, he or she must be from Lebanon or Palestine. I was reporting what was on Twitter, einstein.
Just as loony to claim that because someone speaks Arabic, he or she must be from Lebanon or Palestine. I was reporting what was on Twitter, einstein. Reported a lot.
There are Arabic speaking Iranians of Arabic decent…
Things aren't as clearcut as being reported. Here's what Renesys is saying on their blog. Renesys does critical intelligence work on the backbone (internet infrastructure.) Renesys has the ability to look at the subterranean trunks feeding Iran and whether they're working or not. They are, apparently, and this article shows a flowchart of how. Strange Changes in Iranian Transit By James Cowie on June 14, 2009 7:33 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks http://www.renesys.com/mt-cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/119
From the tag paragraph:
"Change_for_Iran" ?? "Under attack by Ansar-Hezbolah" ?? Change_for_Iran went out and asked for ID, and the hapless idiot mercenary forked over the info? "Yes, I'm from Hezbollah, and Ahmadinejad hired me." Maybe Change_for_Iran caught a pristine passport that spontaneously ejected itself as the guard rode by on his motorcycle. Isn't that the preferred method for identifying Arab terrorists in the minds of most Americans? Insta-proof, like our news. ——————————— P.S. I haven't seen anyone claim that Iran has disconnected itself from the internet. Amanpour used the words Shut down the Internet and all cell phone traffic.
True, he didn't say how he knew they were Ansar-Hezbolah. Then again, this is Twitter, and he was writing as the (alleged) attack was happening. It wasn't really the best time to be writing detailed essays with scholarly footnotes. Amanpour's wording is ambiguous, and I doubt she has the technical competence to distinguish between a physical disconnection of the internet and aggressive filtering.
My point exactly. Then why resort to saying they are from Lebanon or Palestine, Israel's two enemies? Why not Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai, Jordan? The Iranian armed forces announced that they would not police the situation, claiming their job is to protect the borders, not fire on Iranian citizens. Iran (Persia) views countries like Saudi Arabia as johnny-come-lately tribal entities that lucked out as a result of oil. Persia is thousands of years old as a civilized nation, and has a rich intellectual, cultural, legislative, and financial history that no other country in the world can touch for longevity. There is no single country or empire that has survived since 3200 BC except for Iran/Persia. As Roger Cohen pointed out there are graves in the Jewish cemeteries now that are 3,000 years old. Persians look upon Arabs as peasants.
Correction: China has lasted that long too.
Because the people there don't want to be held captive by a holocaust-denying, a-bombing, religion fundamentalizing freak any longer, you moron.
Craig11, Yeah, there were 2000 tweets/hour on #iranelection. Overwhelming. Change_for_Iran only opened his Twitter account yesterday. No matter what the story is, someday people will be able to put all this together with the IP addresses of the tweets, identify spoofs, and find out who was reporting what from where. That's going to be the next direction of history afforded by redundancy and backups.
Your hitching a ride on this disinfo campaign is extremely unwelcome, Phil.
Iran's Next President? Release of Pre-Election Polling Please join us for the release and analysis of an exclusive national poll taken ahead of Irans presidential election on June 12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrmsfBchs&fe...
Although Robert Fisk's on the ground reporting is valuable, he has the tendency to mix his cynical personal take on things along with his reporting…. Robert Fisk: Iran erupts as voters back 'the Democrator' http://opinion.independentminds.livejournal.com/8...
Pepe Escobar has gone competely mad with this. Out of one side of his face, he equates the anti-Ahmadinejad factions with the students of Paris in 1968, out of the other he quotes interviewees on RFE/RL (not noted for supporting 1968-style anarcho-syndicalists). He does though draw attention to the important fact that Ahmadinejad's real main opponent is Hashemi Rafsanjani. Escobar admits cheerily that Rafsanjani is a multimillionaire, and adds disingenuously that Ahmadinejad pointing this out "goes down well with the Revolutionary Guards." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF16Ak02...
To me this is appearing more and more like a revolutionary struggle within Iran that seems to be taking place between the elite that for the most part Moosavi represents that have been largely corrupted, and the working class that Ahmadinejad represents for the most part that have been largely negatively effected by this corruption. The elections brought this internal struggle to the surface. The reformist and conservative labels in this particular struggle don't seem have much meaning….. In the Lebanon elections, it was the known to be corrupted March 14th party that won….
Phil so far is having a tough time connecting the dots. Someone lend him an eight-year-old with a crayon.
When you said a nation being hijacked by the holocaust, first I thought you were gonna talk about the U.S.A. Then I read the rest of your Zionut rant. What a disappointment. Still mad at Max, ey?
"perhaps they were the same israelis who planned 9/11!" Wow! You know them?
Rowan, Phil got on the wrong bus. Let's see how long it takes him to notice.
Yeah, because accurate statements always require detailed footnotes. What a yawn, Craig. You seem content with the Amanpour narrative on things. So just swallow it and enjoy. Leave the critical perspectives to us.
MRW, thanks for the link. It is fascinating. The mt-cgi-bin didn't work for me, but the root page had another link to the article. Strange Changes in Iranian Transit http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/strange-chang...
I don't understand why you guys are dogging Phil.
It's like the time Jon Stewart got all excited about a new Middle East because there was a public outcry in Lebanon against Syria after Rafik Hariri's assassination (which the ever-reliable western media immediately insisted was Syria's doing–still unproven years later). Sometimes you have to be careful not to be a useful idiot. Just as was the case with the phony "color revolution" that occurred there in the U.S. in 2008, Phil's just not being very careful. Too bad.
The thing is that Western Left/Right classifications are of very limited value — even in the West. They reflect a narrow, secularist view of the peoples' will. Incidentally, of all the various 'Islamist' political theologians that I have looked at in translations over the years, I think the most interesting of them all has been Ali Shariati. He was somewhat to the Left of the main thrust of the Iranian Revolution, which was captured by petit bourgeois nationalists fairly early on (the so-called 'bazaaris'), but that doesn't mean he wasn't correct, in speaking for the vast masses of Iranian workers and peasants, who also happen to be devout Shi'ite Muslims.
Well the CIA offers Proxy IP services. But maybe that is not a good idea. For questions like that I think slashdot is a good address. They'd post it. I'm a confused on this matter. Who against who is this? And who is imagining conspiracies?
can you 1 proxy please plese///???
and another provider of privacy protection: http://www.jtan.com/
my previous post was lost. New attempt at listing anonymizers. (disclaimer: I have no experience with anonymizers) 1. Tor http://www.torproject.org/
2. Jap http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html
and 4.anonymizer http://www.anonymizer.com
I hope this time the post stays : 3. peacefire at peacefire dot org
Proxy
What is preventing iranian citizens from using tor? I am not sure how the "virtual circuit" is created, thus how easy it would be to block. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_netwo...
I can't find anything to support the claim that international observers were present, but here is some confirmation of comprehensive local supervision. "…According to the head of Iran's election headquarters, Kamran Daneshjoo, candidate representatives can be present at all polling stations throughout the country for the balloting, counting and transfer process. " http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96581&se...