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Iranian Crackdown Goes Global

Posted by timothy on from the innocuous-backup-account dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tehran's leadership faces its biggest crisis since it first came to power in 1979, as Iranians at home and abroad attack its legitimacy in the wake of June's allegedly rigged presidential vote. An opposition effort, the 'Green Movement,' is gaining a global following of regular Iranians who say they never previously considered themselves activists. The regime has been cracking down hard at home. And now, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows, it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well. Part of the effort involves tracking the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube activity of Iranians around the world, and identifying them at opposition protests abroad. People who criticize Iran's regime online or in public demonstrations are facing threats intended to silence them."

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  1. Families, eh? by NoYob · · Score: 4, Funny

    My name is M. Ahmadinejad, Jr. I think Iran and it's Government are extremely corrupt, anti-Islamic, and a horrible place. The Iranian people deserve better than the lying cheating sack of shits that run the government - especially, the Mullahs - at least that's what my Dad told me.

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    It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
  2. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Unless your adulterous sister is inside.

  3. There's an app for that.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    called iRan

    1. Re:There's an app for that.. by value_added · · Score: 4, Funny

      Customers who bought iRan also bought iAtollah.

  4. Re:The mullahs are winning. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Japan too, albeit very briefly.

  5. Re:GIYUSlashdot?!? by h4rm0ny · · Score: 2, Funny


    So basically, if we want to see where the pro-Israel lobby is astroturfing, we just have to download their "megaphone" app and wait for it to point us in the right direction. Then we can just follow them there and post actual facts. Brilliant! :D

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    Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
  6. I am an American who helped the Iranian protestors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure they know who I am and where I live. I've already gotten one threatening phone call and I told them to come on over, I would make tea and introduce them to my friends.

    The VEVAK is welcome to try and come pull their bullshit. I will teach them about a country where the government does NOT have a monopoly on force, and send them back to Khamenei in a pine box covered in bacon.

    I have no tolerance for totalitarianism, anywhere, in any way. It is a cancer in human society and the only way to expunge it is to meet it with forceful defiance every step of the way.