1) We, a group of Iranian bloggers, strongly condemn the violent and repressive confrontation of Iranian government against Iranian people’s legitimate and peaceful demonstrations and ask government officials to comply with Article 27 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution which emphasizes “Public gatherings and marches may be freely held, provided arms are not carried and that they are not detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam.”
2) We consider the violations in the presidential elections, and their sad consequences a big blow to the democratic principles of the Islamic Republic regime, and observing the mounting evidence of fraud presented by the candidates and others, we believe that election fraud is obvious and we ask for a new election.
3) Actions such as deporting foreign reporters, arresting local journalists, censorship of the news and misrepresenting the facts, cutting off the SMS network and filtering of the internet cannot silence the voices of Iranian people as no darkness and suffocation can go on forever. We invite the Iranian government to honest and friendly interaction with its people and we
hope to witness the narrowing of the huge gap between people and the government.
Everyone is depressed. When leaving house at the morning, I was thinking that I’m going to confront many many Ahmadinejad supporters at the streets but there were none. There were only depressed people who were walking silently to their offices or shops. Official news are announcing higher and higher votes for Ahmadinejad each hour. He has already passed 24M votes and this can not be anything except fraud…. Hey! There is no even ONE single invalid vote yet.
Anyway… This is our country. With all it’s cheats and poor and uneducated people. There is no news yet about the Karroubi and Mousavi. They are saying that the Mousavi won 9M and Karroubi won only 275′000 votes! This is ridiculous. Karroubi had 5M votes 4 yours ago and we are seeing his supporters all around us. Having less than 1% of the votes is nothing more than “You should leave politics Karroubi” and “Human Rights have no votes in Iran” from the government side.
Hi Jadi, exciting times with the elections? I saw you are gonna vote for Karoubi, why not Mousavi? It seems most of the activist are voting for Karoubi, and the young people that usually are not really into activism are supporting Mousavi. Is that because he is running a more exciting campaign? I really hope the turn out will be high so either one of them will beat Mahmoud!
This question made everybody happy This shows a deep understanding about Iran and it’s situation. Looking around myself, I can confirm that the activists are going to vote for Karroubi. He is the only person who acted against the arrest of activists these years. I know that he - personally - called the head of the judiciary during my wife’s arrest and I heard from many others that he always talked with the family of the activists and supported their LEGAL treatment.
You have to keep in mind that here is Iran. There are many filters and when these 4 are pre-selected, all of them are part of this regime and non of therm are looking for big change! But I will vote for Karroubi. He was candidate in previous elections too. After the election he sent an open letter for the Supreme Leader and told him about the cheats during the election. He stated that he is going to leave his every single governmental job and start a people based party and newspaper. He did so.
He made big changes in this elections. I am sure that this 2009 elections will be memorable in Islamic Republics history. This is the first time that somebody is speaking about political prisoners; They’ve never admitted having one. This is the first time I’ve heard NO TO CENSORSHIP on TV. These are because of the Karroubi, not only him but the whole reformist movement.
Let me finish this post with Mousavi. He is a semi-reformist. He’ve never named himself as a reformist but Khatami’s direct support of him, indicate his general approach. He used to be the Prime-Minister 20 year ago. During the Iran - Iraq war. I consider him as a Islamic Left. He has a dark lines in his resume as he was in power during the mass executions of 80s. His supporters tell that he were not a decision maker about those executions but I can not accept his totally clean hands. I have no rejection to voting to him (a No to Ahmadinejad). It seems that he is the main hope against this Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Young people are with him. He has votes from universities and poor people (as he did well with the economy during the war). He is also supporting Human Rights. He talked about women rights, freedom of expression and freedom in general but more moderated that what Karroubi did.
In Iran, if one candidate wins more than 50% of the votes in the first round, he became president. So in the first round we can vote for Karroubi and prevent Ahmadinejad having 51%. At the next round there will be only two people who had the highest votes during the first round. There I can vote for Mousavi or Karroubi and support him against Ahmadinejad.
There three men were accused for a bombing in Southern Iran and were arrested YESTERDAY! Did they went to the judeg? defended theirselves and executed in ONE day?!
Amir Yaghoubali is Free. Oh yes.. He was and is free all of his life… I mean he is out of prison after 25 days, he was arrested on first of may gatherings. Will write more later…
It was difficult controlling my tears while seeing this one. Thank you all. These kind of actions shows us that we have support and this means that we are somehow safe. I am 100% percent sure that if your supports where not there, much much more human rights activists were in much much worse prisons. But belive me, it is not only the saftety… The main THANK should go to the fact that there are many many people around the world that beleive we are right. This is great. Seeing that GOOD people around the world, empowers us. Knowing that we are not alone, encourage us to continue. I beleive that this is the biggest help.
At last… Facebook and Twitter are filtered in Iran. Facebook used to be filtered for years but they’ve opened it a few months ago and it gained the 2nd rank between popular sites in Iran. Many people have seen this as a spyish act. They said that the governmet is lookig for contacts and groups of people. In their idea, the goverment were going to observe groups and activities to identify who is who.
Twitter were also very popular and now it is filtered. I think we have to start twitting in English so the world will be able to hear us… this is a good stategy when we are not allowed to twitt for the Iranian audience.
Update: twitter is open now! Theorm: the filter manager were away and his child were clicking on random links we are waiting for our Facebook!
This shows a deep understanding about Iran and it’s situation. Looking around myself, I can confirm that the activists are going to vote for 
I'm Jadi, an Iranian blogger from inside Iran. I'm blocked in my own country so I've decided to write in English for outsiders (