Iran Post election fighting

Tehran 24 blog:

"Police forces attack to people that protested the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Angry people in many points of Tehran fired buses and police motorcycles and cars and fall into conflict with Special Police Forces."

Twitter is again changing how we learn of the world and I was up late last night watching TwitterFall on it. It was/is beyond fascinating (although the speed of new information seems to have slowed). Try it for just #iranelections here: twitterfall.

Actually pretty amazing. Yes you get much garbage and repetition as it is unfiltered and unedited, but very impressive on sheer information.

Some of the better people to follow for information on Iran on Twitter seem to be (again it is hard to verify)

• IranNewsNow
• Gita (who is supposedly in Iran and dealing with censor issues etc)
• Change_forIran
• IranVote
• LilyMazahery
• StopAhmadi,
• twitpersia
• Haaretzonline :news of the Middle East
  

Although these change regularly. If you have a good one, let me know

My favorite line from last night has to be : from @ravenb

"We're watching democracy in action & history in the making,which is at once inspiring yet heartbreaking."

A video:




Another UNEDITED Video: from an Iranian Neighborhood.

Andrew Sullivan writing for the Atlantic has also been absolutely on top of this with a good mix of "currentness" and
BTW if you want background on the elections from before the election, try here from MSNBC.