tweets from Iran (anonymous to protect tweeter)

[ineffabelle]

unconfirmed - several Generals have been arested -
in azadi sq the killing was by baseej ONLY - military did not react -
only baseej militia and Etellaat folowing orders - they cannot contain country without Army -
unconfirmed - military has refused orders to shoot protesters -

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[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

unconfirmed - military has refused orders to shoot protesters -

Hot damn!

But still, I'm betting the Revolutionary Guards will. They have their command and control structure, a state within a state if you will.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Via Juan Cole:

Grand Ayatollah Hosain Montazeri, once thought likely to be Khomeini's successor, called for 3 days of mourning for the 12 demonstrators killed on Monday. Montazeri broke with the regime, rejecting an authoritarian interpretation of the 'guardianship of the jurisprudent' or mandatory clerical rule, and is under house arrest in Qom.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Was it you (I'm losing track) who mentioned rumors that Hezbollah might have been brought in because of the regular Army's resistance to firing on fellow Iranians? So many sources on this - which is its power, of course.

[ineffabelle]

I did mention that at some point yes.

This ... situation... is bigger than the current election.. but it's also bigger than Iran, if I may be so bold. This is the next step in 5th generation warfare.
Sigint is becoming signal/vs/noise war... the war is won by those who have some idea what's going on and can re-transmit better signals.

The mind wars have begun, and the spark, of all places, has been Iran.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

The Twitter thing is wild (literally and) in that it is the parsing of messages from competing, some intentionally deceptive, lots of noise, but all together come together into something - - even the noise of babblers, panic, trolling and misinformation is like EVP.
Made me think of an almost impenetrable code to use Twitter against background noise: messages split across hundreds of thousands of accounts that will only make sense if read in a very particular sequence.
Of course, maybe that's what's happening anyway.

Agh, I think I just spawned a Qabbalistic Twitter Cult in my head.

Not to make light of people being hurt on the ground though, so:
Saw this in a friend's Twitter :

RT Iran TehranQuote of the day: "140 chars is a novel when you're being shot at." #iranelection

[sammhain.livejournal.com]

And yet if they replace one state with another, it will only bbe a matter of time before they have to do the same job again...still it's a posittive thing...although I wish the rnc8 saw this kind of support

[ineffabelle]

Yeah... when we can get two million people out to protest the US government, that will be a good sign.
I still have one of the pics from the RNCWC protest as my home desktop :)

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Here's an account of military intervening to protect Greens from Basij:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/17/2600571.htm

[ineffabelle]

I usually trust Fisk, thanks for the link!