Iran Today - Iranian Police Shot Dead? - Iranian Citizen Journalists "Go Dark"

From Gateway:

Breaking: Mousavi Placed Under House Arrest!... Sistani Condemns Iranian Regime ...8 Basiji Shot Dead?

According to Gooya News Opposition leader Hossein Mousavi has been placed under house arrest by the coup d'etat regime.


Nurses and doctors protest the regime's violence in Tehran.

Revolutionary Road is reporting today that 38 people were murdered by the regime in last week's protests including children:

The following email in Farsi we received today (Wednesday 24th june). It is written by a doctor from “Rasul Akram” hospital in Tehran who says that some people were killed not only by one bullet as they found two or three bullets in some bodies, close to one another, showing that shooters used barrage shooting against people and not only a single shot. A 68 year old man had 3 bullets in his body, two on his left shoulder and one in the left side of his stomach. The doctors of the “Rasul Akram”hospital say they had been faced with 38 people killed during last week’s protests. Apparently, police took the corpse of the dead bodies out from the hospital and carried them away by truck. Most of their families still do not know if their children have been killed. Besides, among the corpse there were some 15, 16 years old kids.

According to the email, the crew of the hospital protested in the street next to the hospital giving out the information about the violence to the people. The photos attached are from this demonstration which appears to have taken place earlier this week.

More... The moderate Iraqi Ayatollah Ali Sistani condemned the violent actions of the illegitimate regime today.

The pro-regime Iran Press TV website is reporting that 8 basiji members were shot deadduring the Tehran unrest.

The truth is probably closer to the reverse... 8 opposition protesters were shot dead by basiji killers.

Here's video of the Basij police shooting at protesters in the streets:

Once again--- The Iran massacres prove the UN is impotent.

UPDATE: Only one-third of Iranian Parliamentarians showed up to Mahmoud's victory bash.
The BBC reported:

Separately, nearly two thirds of MPs appear to have stayed away from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's poll victory party. 

All 290 MPs were invited to attend the party, Iran's press reports, but only 105 turned up. An earlier BBC report wrongly reported that 105 did not attend. 

One of those who reportedly failed to turn up was Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, a high-profile figure who shares some of Mr Ahmadinejad's hardline views but has been critical of some aspects of the government's handling of the protests.

From Atlas Shrugs:

1:08 pm: Iran's citizen journalists have gone dark. This is terrible. The tweets are not coming in. "New" twitters, pro-Ahmadinejad (twitters like antifascista) have been tweeting vile propaganda.

I do not believe the movement has been quelled but I do believe it has been silenced. The mainstream media fearlessly took on Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney. They were so tough on those that didn't share their ideological views. They had no fear of those they ridiculed, marginalized, tongue lashed mercilessly.  Because they knew no harm would come to them. How comforting. 

But when it comes to really doing their job they have been absent on Iran. Who can forget how they climbed all over each other to get embedded into Iraq so that they could make America look terrible. Why aren't they clamoring to get into Iran to cover an historic cataclysmic event?

CNN has been the only news network to cover Iran in any depth, though they frame in a leftist narrative. FOX has been negligent in its lack of coverage.

12:05pm: Note to Iranians: surf anonymously.

11:54 am: Still no word from the best Iranian tweeters on twitter. Very bad. Has Obama apologized yet?

11:10 am:  Iranian Opposition Calls For Rallies Online Despite Crackdown

These people need guns, brass knuckles and bats. 

10:24 am: Has Obama apologized yet? Reuters reports here: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor towardIran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologized.

Ahmadinejad warns Obama not to interfere

Photo above: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles as he waits for an official meeting with Belarus Parliament speaker Semyon Sharetsky in Tehran. 

10:15 am: Yesterday. 70 professors were arrested after meeting Mousavi. There are tweets reporting that 66 were freed while four still remain in custody. Will try to confirm.

Ahmadinejad lashes out, compares Obama to Bush. "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor toward Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologized."

Obama said on Tuesday he was "appalled and outraged" by a post-election crackdown and Washington withdrew invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend U.S. Independence Day celebrations on July 4 -- stalling efforts to improve ties with Tehran.

"Mr Obama made a mistake to say those things ... our question is why he fell into this trap and said things that previously (former U.S. President George W.) Bush used to say," the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

"Do you want to speak with this tone? If that is your stance then what is left to talk about ... I hope you avoid interfering in Iran's affairs and express your regret in a way that the Iranian nation is informed of it," he said.

I wrote earlier that the best sources on twitter, whom I have been following for days, have gone dark for almost 15 hours now. I fear the worst. So many bloggers and  journalists have been arrested in Iran, it is difficult to get information.

Persian kiwi - the most prolific of the tweeters last wrote

Allah - you are the creator of all and all must return to you - Allah Akbar - Sea of Green (15 hours ago)

and the previous tweets: 

thank you ppls 4 supporting Sea of Green - pls remember always our martyrs - Allah Akbar (15 hours ago)

we must go - dont know when we can get internet - they take 1 of us, they will torture and get names - now we must move fast - (15 hours ago)

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