UPDATE: There is now an anonymous forum for Iranians to discuss the situation over there and send anonymous reports and testimony. It's called anonymous Iran, and it's located at: http://iran.whyweprotest.net/

Iran is on fire! and it's being done with technology. I will be doing a more indepth write up for the next Hack This Zine but these are the main points so far.

- After a sham election, iranians used twitter and facebook to organize and to get the message out.

-Regular media is not in the country right now, it's all indymedia style and bloggers within the country. The government knows this and are targeting anyone with a camera or a cell phone

-Proxies are playing a huge role right now, allowing iranians to circumvent government censors.

-People are setting up ECD on a large scale to attack main websites with websites already going down.

-Videos and pictures of people getting shot in iran are getting out through twitter and youtube.

- Fake twitter accounts spreading disinfo are popping up: http://twitspam.org/?p=1403

Fucked up police state crap:

-People injured are being arrested at hospitals

-Starting last night, raids are happening on people involved with protests.

- From the washington post :

"Two European companies — a major contractor to the U.S. government and a top cell-phone equipment maker — last year installed an electronic surveillance system for Iran that human rights advocates and intelligence experts say can help Iran target dissidents.

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens, delivered what is known as a monitoring center to Irantelecom, Iran’s state-owned telephone company.

A spokesman for NSN said the servers were sold for “lawful intercept functionality,” a technical term used by the cell-phone industry to refer to law enforcement’s ability to tap phones, read e-mails and surveil electronic data on communications networks.

In Iran, a country that frequently jails dissidents and where regime opponents rely heavily on Web-based communication with the outside world, a monitoring center that can archive these intercepts could provide a valuable tool to intensify repression"

Really Inspring Stuff:

-Videos coming out show women in burkas gathering rocks and handing them to young men as they walk towards police.

-People seem to be very unafraid of paramilitary groups, even as people are getting shot.

-Most of the people that are protesting right now concerned not with the election but the shadow government that exists.

- From the huffington post, emailed to them from someone on the ground: Just got home...haven't read you're blog yet but if there's a lot of stories about violence I'm sure they're all true. I don't know where to start, I'd taken my camera but had the sence to take out the memory card this came in hany as I was serched twice (by Basij) before getting stuck in the middle of hell. If I'd been caught with pictures it would mean jail time and a possible a charge of spying (as I'm a Canadian citizen). Eventually I dropped of the camera at the house of a friend without being able to take any pictures as it would make me a definate target...The chants of death to Khamenei are true...I witnessed peoples fear of the Basij dissapear, an 80 year old chadori woman with rocks in her hands calling for the exacution of khamenei and all Basij...A group of Basij were surrounded and forced in to a building, the front was blocked with garbage and set on fire, They (basij) opened fire on the crowd with what I assume were blanks, the crowed disspersed for a moment the came back with a fury...thats when the molotov cocktails came out. When I moved on the building was on fire...an hour later when I passed by again there wasn't much of a building left. There was full blown war...there was a young man who had taken all of a basij's things including their teargas rifle. We were finnaly able to get out on the back of motorcycle...the ride home took 25 minutes,for 15 minutes of it we were passing intermitently though Basij and protesters fires placed to displace the teargas... might I add the 3 hours that we walked through fire we didn't see one shop or car that had been damaged by protesters...however I just recieved word for the one who was kind enough to keep my camera and other belongings that the Basij had gone into her street and destoryed cars...thats all I can get out for now hope some of it may be useful...I'm pissed I was unable to get pictures.

The best place for updates right now is huffington post, most of the major media is taking their info from huffington or from twitter accounts. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215...