Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter
Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.
Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.
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Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -
1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.
Why were these tweets in English? Why were all of these profiles OBSESSED with Iran? It became obvious that this was the work of a team of people with an interest in destabilizing Iran. The profiles are phonies and were created with the sole intention of destabilizing Iran and effecting public opinion as to the legitimacy of Iran’s election.
I narrowed the spammers down to three of the most persistent – @StopAhmadi @IranRiggedElect @Change_For_Iran
I decided to do a google search for 2 of the 3 – @StopAhmadi and @IranRiggedElect. The first page to come up was JPost (Jerusalem Post) which is a right wing newspaper pro-Israeli newspaper.
JPost actually ran a story about 3 people “who joined the social network mere hours ago have already amassed thousands of followers.” Why would a news organization post a story about 3 people who JUST JOINED TWITTER hours earlier? Is that newsworthy? Jpost was the first (and only to my knowledge) major news source that mentioned these 3 spammers.
The fact that JPost promoted these three Twitterers who went on the be the source of the IranElection Twitter bombardment is, unfortunately, evidence that this was an Israeli propaganda campaign against Iran. I must admit that I had my suspiscions. After all, Que Bono? (latin for “Who Benefits). There’s no question that Israel perceives Iran as an enemy, more so than any other nation. Destabilizing the country would benefit them.
Meet The Spammers
IranRiggedElect
3146 followers. 31 friends.
340 tweets in past 4 days. none before that.
Top 5 words - iranelection, cnnfail, mousavi, tehran,
All tweets in English
Time: Bulk between 12pm and 2pm eastern standard time
Most retweets: @StopAhmadi @IranElection09 @change_for_iran
Change_for_Iran
14,000 followers. 0 friends
117 tweets in 2 days. none before that.
All tweets in English
Time: Bulk between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm eastern.
Top 5 words: iranelection, people, police, right, students
No retweets
IranElection09
800 followers. 9 friends.
196 tweets in 3 days. none before that.
185 in English. 11 in Farsi (Arabic appearing letters. Not sure if it’s Farsi)
Time: bulk between 2:00pm and 6:00pm eastern. Also 1:00am.
Top 5 words: iranelection, rt, mousavi, tehran, march
Most retweets: @IranRiggedElect @StopAhmadi
StopAhmadi
6199 followers. 53 friends.
1107 tweets in past 3 days. None before then.
top 5 words: iranelection, ppl, news, rt, iran.
All tweets in English
Time: bulk between 9:00am and 5:00pm eastern
Most retweets: @mohamadreza @mahdi
mohamadreza
1433 followers. 142 friends
(protected account. cant see data)
The following all have the same photo in their profile and are followed by the profiles previously mentioned.
http://twitter.com/SadeqEn
http://twitter.com/greenvote
http://twitter.com/Change_for_Iran (14,000 followers)
http://twitter.com/iranbaan
http://twitter.com/sdavood
http://twitter.com/IranElection09 (800 followers. 9 friends.)
Click below for the JPost Article
[Update 2] NBC foreign correspondent Richard Engel says Twitter and Facebook are helping Iranians organize a “revolution.”
[Update 3] Wonder where all of the nasty comments are coming from? FYI- DDOS = distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. (Recognize the avatar?) BUT….their latest spamming campaign (Against CS) is backfiring.
Spammers get a taste of their own medicine!: Block CS eh? It’s not us being blocked…..
[Update 4] The Guardian: Iran’s election result may not be fraudulent. Our polling suggests that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory is what voters wanted
Disclaimer: Before I get attacked as being an Anti-Semite,you should know that I am, in fact, half Jewish. Alternatively, I hope that people do not misinterpret this as some “JEWISH” conspiracy. It isn’t. These are the workings of the extreme right wing of Israeli politics. They have their own Bush’s and Cheney’s there too.
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Pretty cool post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your posts.
Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!
Maybe you could investigate also the site iran.whyweprotest.net According to my findings, it’s backed by US gov’t too. Every criticism of Mousavi and every post indicating elections may not be rigged gets consistently censored, postings deleted, moved etc.
This site is also affiliated with Anonymous protesting Scientology. There is a reason to believe that effort is US gov’t fueled too. Scientology is opposed to big government AFAIK so that could be a motive. There could be bigger story to be told here …
Loved your latest post, by the way.
very nice to blogs
Pretty nice post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
that I have really enjoyed reading your posts. Any way
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!
Moustavi should be decommisioned by a patsy.
Then Iran can have their own lone gunman stories.
assalaamoalaikum- all bro’s& sisters in islam-learn from history – it’s time for unity , ponder on !!!. thanks.
You clearly have no idea whatsoever how Twitter works; however, if the Jerusalem Post came out with the first story on it (I’m not certain that this is actually correct, as my own Google search put Jerusalem Post’s first story as being on June 14, the same day that numerous other stories regarding the #iranelection hashtag were posted on numerous news sites), then it’s possible they were being more internet-savvy then the majority of mainstream news media . The monstrosity of a Twitter storm regarding the Iran election was already well underway the day BEFORE they posted an item about it. With Twitter, these kinds of issues become top trending topics very rapidly when there is something this big at stake. Does that mean that they were somehow “in on it”? Of course not. And I know that it’s been pointed out that they later removed the user names (supposedly to cover up the big conspiracy), but that means nothing, as everyone on Twitter, as well as all major news sites had been asked by any number of people from inside Iran to stop posting the user names of the Iran posters for fear that the government would track them down via Twitter (as you most certainly know if you have read any of the reportage on the situation). You are clearly looking for a conspiracy, and of course, whenever people go looking for one, they are going to find one, no matter how tenuous the supposed “links” are.
very interesting
funny and WTF…
Israel, CIA and USA has always behind such acts.
they r just bull……..t.
Thank you very much very great parta>
Thank you very much very great part
It seems giyus already hit your post.
I just wrote a post about the Twitter Revolution being a trap by the dictator government.
So you guys be very careful.
I first became a twit on Tuesday. (Pun intended) I’m not a secret agent or anything, just hungry for the best, most timely information.
We all know official Iran government tweets were being posted too.
If American and Israeli’s want to support the cause, why would that offend? I don’t get it.
You can’t be half Jewish. You are either Jewish or you are not.
The correct Latin phrase for “Who Benefits?” is:
cui bono
NOT
que bono.
Please look it up!
PS
I’m an editor, and a student of languages, including Latin and Greek.
Americans should be more concerned over election fraud in their own country than in Iran. Where was the outrage in America in 2000? Why weren’t the masses in the streets then?
Thank you so much PakAlert for exposing the truth!
We Iranians fully support Ahmadinejad! We don’t need fake support of US, British and Israeli media!
Those who are protesting, rioting and destabilizing Iran are US agents… Mousavi is US/Israeli agent.. we Iranians know this and he will never be able to win any elections in Iran!
Leave us alone.. we will sort out our problems…. Go and save yourself from recession
Without any evidence, many US politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election on Friday, with 62.6 per cent of the vote, as fraud.
They ignore the fact that Ahmadinejad’s 62.6 per cent of the vote in this year’s election is essentially the same as the 61.69 per cent he received in the final count of the 2005 presidential election, when he trounced former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The shock of the “Iran experts” over Friday’s results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking.
Although Iran’s elections are not free by Western standards, the Islamic Republic has a 30-year history of highly contested and competitive elections at the presidential, parliamentary and local levels. Manipulation has always been there, as it is in many other countries. But upsets occur — as, most notably, with Mohammed Khatami’s surprise victory in the 1997 presidential election. Moreover, “blowouts” also occur — as in Khatami’s re-election in 2001, Ahmadinejad’s first victory in 2005 and, we would argue, this year.
Like much of the Western media, most American “Iran experts” overstated Mirhossein Mousavi’s “surge” over the campaign’s final weeks. More important, they were oblivious — as in 2005 — to Ahmadinejad’s effectiveness as a populist politician and campaigner. American “Iran experts” missed how Ahmadinejad was perceived by most Iranians as having won the nationally televised debates with his three opponents — especially his debate with Mousavi.
Before the debates, both Mousavi and Ahmadinejad campaign aides indicated privately that they perceived a surge of support for Mousavi; after the debates, the same aides concluded that Ahmadinejad’s provocatively impressive performance and Mousavi’s desultory one had boosted the incumbent’s standing. Ahmadinejad’s charge that Mousavi was supported by Rafsanjani’s sons — widely perceived in Iranian society as corrupt figures — seemed to play well with voters.
Similarly, Ahmadinejad’s criticism that Mousavi’s reformist supporters, including Khatami, had been willing to suspend Iran’s uranium enrichment programme and had won nothing from the West for doing so tapped into popular support for the programme — and had the added advantage of being true.
More fundamentally, American “Iran experts” consistently underestimated Ahmadinejad’s base of support. Polling in Iran is notoriously difficult; most polls there are less than fully professional and, hence, produce results of questionable validity. But the one poll conducted before Friday’s election by a Western organisation that was transparent about its methodology — a telephone poll carried out by the Washington-based Terror-Free Tomorrow from May 11 to 20 — found Ahmadinejad running 20 points ahead of Mousavi. This poll was conducted before the televised debates in which, as noted above, Ahmadinejad was perceived to have done well while Mousavi did poorly.
American “Iran experts” assumed that “disastrous” economic conditions in Iran would undermine Ahmadinejad’s re-election prospects. But the International Monetary Fund projects that Iran’s economy will actually grow modestly this year (when the economies of most Gulf Arab states are in recession).
A significant number of Iranians — including the religiously pious, lower-income groups, civil servants and pensioners — appear to believe that Ahmadinejad’s policies have benefited them.
And, while many Iranians complain about inflation, the TFT poll found that most Iranian voters do not hold Ahmadinejad responsible. The “Iran experts” further argue that the high turnout on June 12 — 82 per cent of the electorate — had to favour Mousavi. But this line of analysis reflects nothing more than assumptions.
Some “Iran experts” argue that Mousavi’s Azeri background and “Azeri accent” mean that he was guaranteed to win Iran’s Azeri-majority provinces; since Ahmadinejad did better than Mousavi in these areas, fraud is the only possible explanation.
But Ahmadinejad himself speaks Azeri quite fluently as a consequence of his eight years serving as a popular and successful official in two Azeri-majority provinces; during the campaign, he artfully quoted Azeri and Turkish poetry — in the original — in messages designed to appeal to Iran’s Azeri community. (And we should not forget that the supreme leader is Azeri.) The notion that Mousavi was somehow assured of victory in Azeri-majority provinces is simply not grounded in reality.
With regard to electoral irregularities, the specific criticisms made by Mousavi — such as running out of ballot paper in some precincts and not keeping polls open long enough (even though polls stayed open for at least three hours after the announced closing time) — could not, in themselves, have tipped the outcome so clearly in Ahmadinejad’s favour.
Moreover, these irregularities do not, in themselves, amount to electoral fraud even by American legal standards. And, compared with the US presidential election in Florida in 2000, the flaws in Iran’s electoral process seem less significant.
In the wake of Friday’s election, some “Iran experts” — perhaps feeling burned by their misreading of contemporary political dynamics in the Islamic Republic — argue that we are witnessing a “conservative coup d’état,” aimed at a complete takeover of the Iranian state.
But one could more plausibly suggest that if a “coup” is being attempted, it has been mounted by the losers in Friday’s election. It was Mousavi, after all, who declared victory on Friday even before Iran’s polls closed. And three days before the election, Mousavi supporter Rafsanjani published a letter criticising the leader’s failure to rein in Ahmadinejad’s resort to “such ugly and sin-infected phenomena as insults, lies and false allegations.” Many Iranians took this letter as an indication that the Mousavi camp was concerned their candidate had fallen behind in the campaign’s closing days.
In light of these developments, many politicians and “Iran experts” argue that the Obama administration cannot now engage the “illegitimate” Ahmadinejad regime. Certainly, the administration should not appear to be trying to “play” in the current controversy in Iran about the election. In this regard, President Barack Obama’s comments on Friday, a few hours before the polls closed in Iran, that “just as has been true in Lebanon, what can be true in Iran as well is that you’re seeing people looking at new possibilities” was extremely maladroit.
From Tehran’s perspective, this observation undercut the credibility of Obama’s acknowledgment, in his Cairo speech earlier this month, of US complicity in overthrowing a democratically elected Iranian government and restoring the Shah in 1953.
The Obama administration should vigorously rebut any argument against engaging Tehran following Friday’s vote. More broadly, Ahmadinejad’s victory may force Obama and his senior advisers to come to terms with the deficiencies and internal contradictions in their approach to Iran. Before the Iranian election, the Obama administration had fallen for the same illusion as many of its predecessors — the illusion that Iranian politics is primarily about personalities and finding the right personality to deal with. That is not how Iranian politics works.
The Islamic Republic is a system with multiple power centres; within that system, there is a strong and enduring consensus about core issues of national security and foreign policy, including Iran’s nuclear programme and relations with the United States. Any of the four candidates in Friday’s election would have continued the nuclear programme as Iran’s president; none would agree to its suspension.
Any of the four candidates would be interested in a diplomatic opening with the United States, but that opening would need to be comprehensive, respectful of Iran’s legitimate national security interests and regional importance, accepting of Iran’s right to develop and benefit from the full range of civil nuclear technology — including pursuit of the nuclear fuel cycle — and aimed at genuine rapprochement.
Such an approach would also, in our judgment, be manifestly in the interests of the United States and its allies throughout the Middle East. It is time for the Obama administration to get serious about pursuing this approach — with an Iranian administration headed by the re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Flynt Leverett directs The New America Foundation’s Iran Project and teaches international affairs at Pennsylvania State University. Hillary Mann Leverett is CEO of STRATEGA, a political risk consultancy. Both worked for many years on Middle East issues for the US government, including as members of the National Security Council staff. The views expressed are their own.
Of course Israel and America don’t want to see Ahmadinejad in power again when he has already made Iran a rising superpower in Middle East and continued his efforts to make Iran a Nuclear power even in extreme pressure by the western powers. We Iranians fully support him and they who are protesting and claiming this election fraud are enemies of Iran and fiends of Israel and USA.
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So what if Iran’s election was rigged? So was America’s election of Barack Obama. All voting is a sham meant to cow and accomodate a cowardly populace. When did a vote or law ever protect anyone? Laws and voting are meant to be violated by governments of the weak. The US acts like it’s so free and fair. Try not to pay the IRS and see how far you get. Steal a loaf of bread and see yourself go to prison regardless of whether or not you’re starving. Become homeless and get arrested for violating street ordinances.
US voting and laws are a sham too.
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anthrax cover-up of 911
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The Zionist propagandists expect that shallow reports on the election results and a sense of déjà vu with images of tyres and garbage being burnt on Tehran’s streets by followers of the “reformist” candidate would have the world believe that an electoral fraud of gigantic proportion has been committed by Ahmadinejad to “steal” victory.
It’s interesting to note how short memory these Zionist propagandist idiots have. When Mir-Hossein Moussavi was prime minister of Islamic Republic of Iran (1981-89) – these idiots used to call him “a radical Islamist”. Now, they insulted his intelligence by reporting that he “claimed victory” while only 50% of the vote counting was completed (IRI Constitution requires 50% of the total votes cast – for a candidate to be declared a winner). Now, since Moussavi has lost to provide USrael’s desired “regime change’” in Tehran – we would be hearing a lot of the so-called “Contra Connection” and his involvement as a Mossad operative! Iran-Contra, like 9/11 – was a Zionist false-flag operation to discredit the Islamic regime in the eyes of the Muslim world. Riyadh paid US$10 million to fund this operation – using Israel as stop-over for the shipment of military spare parts which were long paid for by the Reza Shah regime…….
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/zionist-deja-vu-over-iranian-election-09/
Nice work. well researched with lots of good data. It is nice to see actual facts rather than propeganda or just things made up.
No offense. But how the hell can you be “half” Jewish?
Good work my friend. It is no secret that izrael would be behind any moves to destablize Iran. Unfortunately, until “the Goyim” rise up and smash that shi**y kittke cuntry into the sands that spawned it, the world will always be in danger of those khazar psychopaths.
The about page for this site actually quotes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or the “Protocols of Zion” as you put it. Really?? I mean damn! There is something on the tubes known as “Poe’s Law. ” This site is a perfect example of Poe’s law.
StopAhmadi is Rayman Jahan – don’t believe this idiot!
Of course the profiles are new – the elections were over the weekend!
Nice try but you are on the wrong side of history. USA.
you are perfectly right. mousavi’s real name is moshe avner, he’s a senior mossad officer and was involved in various massacres of palestinian villages before being sent to iran in order to undermine the islamic revolution and take care the war against iraq (organized by mossad and the cia) lasts as long as possible. supplied iraq with israeli chemical weapons – wanted to see how their stuff works on kurds and iranians. now after being a sleeper for many years, he got new orders: bring down the democratically elected government of righteous dr ahmedinejad and install a mossad-controlled puppet supreme leader (rafsanjani) who got order to invade iraq so that, while the world is focused on the iranian-american war over iraq, israel can finally commit the long-planned genocide of the palestians in all areas controlled by their judeo-nazi rogue state. to make their murderous plans work israel has to win the information war around the iranian elections first. what you have discovered is perfectly right – yet you have only discovered the tip of the iceberg. never underestimate the deep-rooted evilness of the malicious zionist masterminds!
Here’s the deal… I’m an American and admit that there is no way I can possibly know what is going on exactly over in Iran, but there is a lot of evidence to support the idea that there was fraud in the election.
When I see these posts trying to contest that, I cross my fingers hoping for tangible information, yet all I find is wild speculation (hey, let’s blame the jews!).
So again, just using some common sense to answer your numbered points:
1. Perhaps all the accounts are created on Saturday because people would rather create a new account for this issue than put their personal one in the spotlight.
2. Shouldn’t it be expected for there to be a large amount of tweets from a newly made, specific twitter account? If I made one to contest a news event, I would post continuous updates until it was resolved.
3. “IranElection” is a hashtag… it’s how twitter works.
4. English is one of the most universal languages on this planet… if I were trying to reach the outside world, I would want as many people as possible to hear. And, again, it is working. And let’s not forget… even this blog is in English. Are you part of the conspiracy as well?
5. Using the same photo could just be a trend.
6. Most large-profile accounts have few friends (including celebrities).
So yeah, don’t get me wrong, I *LOVE* a good conspiracy, but so far all I hear from people on your side are nit-picky things (like your numbered list), or wild accusations blaming the jews (or one person even played the 9/11 card).
If you have evidence that the election wasn’t rigged, show it. Otherwise I am just going to be listening to the people of Iran and watching them being outraged at an election. So far, if I had to make a choice, I’d go with “it was rigged”.
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bob says:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:18 am
1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.
I’d create a new Twitter account as well if I was going to use it to provide info like they are – if the protests hadn’t begun they wouldn’t have needed to set up the networks.
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
Because they are using Twitter to inform people what’s going on you muppet.
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
Because following one hashtag is easier than 100’s.
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
It’s the international language most people would understand on twitter.
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
So what? They are in the same cause.
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.
They haven’t got time to start following people.
Think you’re completely wrong on this.
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Mark says:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:20 am
I agree a few of those accounts are suspicious, but I think Change_for_Iran has a fairly high probability of being a genuine University of Tehran student. His/her updates about the situation there exactly matched what media reports hours later reported about militia attacks on universities, and the timeline matched up exactly. If they were faked, they were somehow faked by someone who had real-time knowledge of what was going on at the University of Tehran dorms.
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NO! says:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:21 am
Be consistent, from the fact you just analyze anyone could conduct an exact opposite analysis :
1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th
–> they use twitter as an alternative to “usual” medias that are always filtered, no suprise they juste created, more over is they had twitter accounts before they don’t want to mix the newsfeed with their private lives
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
–> they are feeding the news, keeping it ALIVE
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
–> So What ? their twits are only about those
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
–> The main goal is to provide support and to “let the world know”, it’s no wonder they use the most used communication language for that, moreover some messages are in Farsi, they all understand farsi, and with 135,000 iranian originated ppl in isreal (source: wikipedia) i don’t think it’s an issue to find farsi locutors in Isreal
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
–> Do you mean the default picture, the “where is my vote”, or the burning iran ? seriously, go to facebook as seen iranian supporter, they mostly share the same pictures too.
Maybe you beleive Mossavi’s pictures used for their profile pics show they all are Mousavi !
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.
–> see 1.
I won’t even discuss that their names have been prentendly “first posted” on an israeli journal, EVERYONE IN THE WORLD knows israel is pretty much CONCERNED with IRAN
Since you’re probably censoring your comments, i’ll be brief.
In response:
1. They would not use their normal Twitter accounts to avoid their real names coming out to the Iranian authorities.
2. Of course. There is a lot happening in Iran at the moment. Maybe you’ve missed that?
3. This is the most important Iranian topic at the time. Duh…?
4. English is taught in high school in Iran. Also, very few outside of Iran speak Persian. These people are functioning as the press for now.
5. Just looked… None of them have the same profile picture. If they did before, it was the default profile picture from opening a new Twitter account. (see #1)
6. Given that #iranelection is the most popular tag at the moment, and (see #1), this is not a big surprise. Also, you fail at 6. There are 4 main twitter accounts passing this info so they can’t have thousands of followers if their only friends are each other.
And to sum up, screw the racist jerks in Israel. They want Ahmedi back so they can bomb the crap out of him. The protests in Iran aren’t about Ahmedi or Mousavi, they’re about honoring the will of the people.
Great investigation. I think the right wing israeli people from GIYUS.org will bomb your post with rude comments.
I definitely agree with your conclussion. But please beware that there are right wing israeli organization which has an cyberwar army. If your blog atacked by giyus, here are ten tips for dealing with them.
netherworld.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/ten-tips-for-dealing-with-giyus/
strange, cuz i talked to change for iran in persian..
That’s some good work
The people of Iran voted for the man who has already proven to be beyond reproach…Mousavi was bought and sold by monied interests and does NOT have the best interests of Iranians at heart.
What else do you expect?
Thank you very much for this information.
Good post thanks for sharing.
they did if for the lulz
Cullen, I shall answer your questions:
There are actual protesters cux Iran is a democracy and they are allowed.
Because they are trouble makers. They have been making troubles in in Iran since 1950s.
Cell phone service was shut off because they deemed it was necessary to shut it off, same way during 9-11 a lot of services were discontinued.
he dont need to try again. And dont tell him he doesnt understand Twitter. he does understand it very well it seems. Its YOU who is the shill.
This isn’t proof. This is just showing you don’t understand Twitter. My question, why are there, hmm ACTUAL PROTESTS. Why are US news agencies not allowed to leave their offices? Why was cell phone service in Tehran shutoff? Rebuild your arguement and try again..
The slightly less bright “investigative” author of this blabber forgot to mention that the information he speaks about was not in JPost as news piece but in its blog – posted there by private person. As such his connection is a bit wobbly to say the least. But who wants to make this kind of connection will find it anywhere. Right?
Cui Bono? Only Israel benefits from these endless Middle East wars fought by American soldiers. As the U.S. commits war-crimes abroad, that same gov’t commits treason at home by eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like “America Deceived” from Amazon, Facebook and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of Israel. Soon, another false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by Mossad) and the US will invade Iran. Then we’ll invade Pakistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, then ….
Final link (before Google Books bends to gov’t demands and censors the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000083883
I really don’t care either way, but watch out for those black helicopters!
Your research is admirable – very good details. Those of us who have studied history – for instance the attempts at CIA destablisation before the overthrow of the Allende govt in Chile – know these tactics close up.
This is a fascinating story. I will be forwarding it on to the producers of the “Alex Jones Show” in America for further review.
This is most certainly within the capability of the Mossad to execute, and strangely parallels the Israeli t.v. interview of the 3 guys who shot video of the twin tower collapses in 01′.
Just acting like it was no big deal… You f**king traitors of humanity!
Israel is NO Friend to America or the World..!!
Israel / Zionist Jews are the Blood Sucking Parasites of the World.
They are nothing more then Leeches, feeding on Humanity and sucking the life out of Mankind.
The sooner this World is rid of them the better we all will be.
“What’s the difference between an Israeli and a Catfish”?
One’s a Scum Sucking Bottom Feeder and the other is a Fish”
“Die You Scum Sucking Bastards, Die”