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7/13/09 Amazing footage from Iran

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A French documentary maker was inside Iran and bravely documents the events following June 12:

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7/12/09 Good News

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Spoke to my mom this morning.  She says that the traffic is better in Tehran now. Actually, she was joking.   But now, when someone is going the wrong way on a one-way street, or backwards on the highway, other drivers raise a hand and scream in happiness: YES!  BREAK THE LAW!  BREAK THE LAW! [...]

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7/9/09 Tehran update from a physician friend

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Deep deep abyss.  Throats lined in dust and cords silenced in clotted blood!  Neda remains the ultimate end for the young, as my 25 year old patient wished for. It is the day after, the days after.  We all stand pregnant with fire! Love you.

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7/3/09 What are the real youth doing today in Iran (I mean the kids)

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today, one cousin is: making a kite Another, in an outlying village, is picking Albaloo: Because THAT is who we are — Earth, Wind, Water, Fire. We are not the angry, closed, sad, desparate people who are aking the British Embassy Staff to court.  What an embarrassment. Please, international community, don’t let them scare you [...]

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Tehran Update 7/1/2009

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Notes from Iran choppy today.  They are gathering the pieces of their lives.  Heard from one business man that the toll on businesses has been severe, with the city shut down since several weeks before the elections.  From a young woman: . . . I don’t think that I have seen one sane person since [...]

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6/28/2009 Tehran Update

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

it is such a strange feeling, we live our lives during the day and then at 10 there is a really loud sound of allahoakbar around tehran, people screaming for 15 min and then life continues. today they have brought armys and wepons into the streets. i feel like nothing else matters expect this, the [...]

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Tehran Update 6/25/09 from physician friend

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged , on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Orthopedists are casting all broken bones with GREEN CASTS!  

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Tehran Update Today 6/23/09

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Received today: well. i really would have liked to say a lot more after the reports i gave but i could not. the whole thing is on a stand still and very fragile. the mood of the city is very quiet rather silent. the streets are much less crowded and businesses are quiet too. i [...]

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From a friend of a friend written 6/18/09

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The internet connection is extremely slow these days. People say the government has decreased the bandwidth to limit communications. Yahoo messenger, MSN, text messaging, facebook, twitter, youtube and all reformist and netoworking websites are filtered. (I just got to briefly log in to facebook last night with a “filtershekan”). Even mobile phone networks (cellphones) are turned off at nights. So, [...]

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Email from my friend, a physician, sent this am

Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Received today: Cousin. they are killing are beautiful young in hundreds. It is so so sad, brains on the ground, hands hanging off, lungs punctured. It is unbearable to see. We are losing are young, the cream of our society. Who will help???

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