Images From Iran

If you are not following the Twitter Feed you are not seeing what’s really happening in Iran. You are not seeing the raw violence and death that the news cannot or will not show you. Then we have a President that goes soft on a written statement (in my opinion he came out way too late with the limp statement) and then he was off to get ice cream.

He needs to get tough and get tough NOW.

Here’s a great resource to the truth.

Images From The #iranelection

by Erick Schonfeld

As the world watches the violence and post-election protests escalate in Iran, startling images from the streets of Tehran are disseminating through various social media. Many of them are tagged #iranelection, a hashtag which started on Twitter but is spreading to Flickr and elsewhere.

Since it is difficult to find photos in the sea of Tweets using the same #iranelection tag I’ve been using Twicsy, an image search engine for photos posted to Twitter which we wrote about yesterday. If you search “iranelection” or “tehran iran”, dozens of images from the protests will pop up.

Fair warning: these images are raw and unfiltered, and some of them are quite gruesome, showing people getting shot and lying in pools of blood. The most tragic one shows what is described as a woman protester bleeding to death after being shot today. This same incident was caught on someone’s video or cell phone video camera and uploaded to YouTube. (I hesitate to link to this because it is so hard to watch, but you can find it by searching for “An innocent girl was shot by Iran riot police” on YouTube).

There’s been plenty of debate about how big a role Twitter is playing in events in Iran. At the very least, it is being used as a channel to distribute information and images to the rest of the world. It is not always clear where these images come from or who took them. Some of the images are credited to professional news agencies such as the AP, Getty, Reuters, and Arabic news organizations and are being spread around by bloggers both inside and outside Iran. Others look like they were taken in haste or on a cell phone. (For other images from Iran taken by citizen photojournalists, check out Demotix/iranelection). . .

Click here for more (images can be quite graphic)

Neda, has become a symbol of this revolution. She was gunned down for protesting.

I will not embed the video as it is very graphic. But, if you never cared about this, meet Neda as she dies while her father is helpless to save her. You will care after this. Click here for video of Neda from Iran

Now you know why I think Obama is just a late to bat, liberal softie, suckin’ down ice cream while this is happening. He’s all rhetoric and no action. His written statement was so soft. But, he’s only been about words. I’ve yet to see some REAL action. I hope he enjoys his Father’s Day as fathers, in Iran, are losing their children and children are losing their fathers.

For now, I have the live Twitter Feeds for #iranelection and #neda at the top on my sidebar. They will stay there until peace is restored and the lost lives were not in vain. You can check the feed any time for the latest. Click on the feed title or a hash tag to see the full results.