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The streets of Tehran are in chaos following Friday’s highly charged elections that brought out 85% of eligible voters. The government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rushed to release the results Saturday showing a landslide victory that stunned supporters of the primary opposition candidate Hossein Mousavi. In what most anticipated would be a close election, some believing Mousavi would emerge victorious, the governments announcement that Ahmadinejad received 62.6% of the vote to Mousavi’s 33.75 was hardly believable.

After demonstrators took to the streets the government countered with demonstrations of it’s own showing support for Ahmadinejad and broadcast these staged rallies throughout the country and the world. Meanwhile, police suppressed the opposition, shut down the foreign press as well as web sites distributing post election events. What they couldn’t shut down was news of the events being distributed through social networking sites such as Twitter. What follows are snippets of what we received via twitter this evening [ times are pst ] which is early morning in Tehran:

4:43pm
has trucked in what may be Lebanese, but definitely non-Iranian and non-Persian speaking malitia to patrol the streets.

4:46
have lost mobile contact in university dorm,, cannont reconect, cannot get info.

4:50 internet very slow, dialup only, no facebook, no bbc, cnn nothing.even arab statins blocked.

4:57
Twitter background changes to Green to show support for Free Elections In Iran and everywhere

else!

5:05 all universitey’s own security and personnel already evactuated by police, there are only us students in here right now.

5:09
Change for Iran bastards just attacked us for no reason, Ilost count of how much tear gas they launched at us!

5:12
Change for Iran my friend saying more than 100 students arrested, I can’t confirm this but the numbers are high.

5:15
Change for Iran to other sources: this isn’t the police! police is still outside! we’re under attack by Ansar-Hezbolah.

5:20
hey used some kind of riot control gun in their last attack, never seen it before, Use Molotov Coctails to keep Basij thugs away

5:35
Iranian Army - Why aren’t you defending the Iranian people from these Hezbollah and Jasij invaders? Shame on you

5:36
Basin Y Hezbollah are marking houses that are chanting on roof tops. They’ll be back. Arm

yourselves.

5:45
Change for Iran Barricadedin University

5:51
Brothers & Sisters; Help Tehran Uni students NOW. They are trapped. No way out. Help Them Now. (shame on CNN)

6:05
people outside are burning Sadenrat bank building or as it seems from this far

6:06
Change for Iran [5:26am Iran] I’m praying to GOD they leave us ge! we should get Reza to a hospital Asap, he has some bad wounds.

6:09
Tehran Bureau problem w/ site pinpointed: webmaster says the Iranian govt is overloading us with requests: “denial of service attack”

6:13
Iran Gov overloaded “Daily Dish” blog with requests to try and sjut it down. Issue seems to be resolved now.

6:14
Tehran Bureau ABC spoke earlier to Mousavi spolsman http://bit.ly/wyxdo

6:16
Tehran Bureau This from 2 hrs ago: major regime crackdown - reformists arrested and foreign journos being kicked out.

6:18
Drudgereport Hey CNN: while you’re out to lunch… can you bring me back a Starbucks Coffee?

Thanks

6:20
donno about the mil forces. prob waiting to see what happens tomorow 4pm

6:24
70 morotcycles! They were in strange clothes andhad a ‘red gun’! they cornered me suddenly.

6:26
Reza is lookin very bad and they will shoot at us again if we try to leave here.

6:27
they arresed a friend who was with me and dragged him away. I got beaten up prety bad too.

6:28
Tehran hospitals surroounded ty the police refusing to let people with injuries in

6:31
Someone Listens! NY Times calls CNN out for taking lunch break ( they scooped ya matt drudge)

6:32
Tehran Bureau to shut my bag and to. can’t believe it, me and 70 motorcycles! 140 sepahi guys!

6:36
Change for Iran just received news about forging department students captured 2 Ansar troopers and moving them to another building!

6:34
Plea from Iran! Dear Obama: We supported you… Now support us! Note: the silence from Obama is deafening!

6:46
Twitter has dusted cnn and aljazeera!

The coming week will teach the world a great deal of what goes on in Iran, who the players are, and who among the world’s democracies will stand up and show support those who seek true democracy in Iran.

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