or: farsi, mofucka, do you speak it??
do you read or speak farsi? are your skills stagnating? have you been reading in english too long? need some practice? come help, there's plenty of news to go around.
even if you don't speak farsi, help sift through twitter feeds! i'd say at this point maybe 1/20th 1/150th are worthwhile posts, and are completely surrounded by spam or disinformation, but the info is there, so let's find it!
http://search.twitter.com/...
http://search.twitter.com/...
there's no real use in trying to localize the search to tehran anymore, since anonymous arrived and set all their location to tehran. proxies have been created en masse, so that iranians can continue to access twitter, however as of yesterday there was a block on all SSL connections going in and out of iran.
these sites are written in farsi, so i can't read fast enough to give the skinny on these, sometimes there's news in english on 7rooz (especially under the "confirmed" section). if anyone can scan 7rooz it's definitely a great source of current information.
http://www.balatarin.com
http://elections.7rooz.com/
here is the bbc persian live feed, it's also in farsi, i'll be translating as much as i can on the comments in this diary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
here's some english news sites
http://www.tehranbureau.com
http://www.tehrantimes.com
http://www.presstv.ir
if you can help, help. if you can find someone who can help, get them to come help!
allah o akbar!
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update: to help start a thread by posting a new comment, and then give updates as replies to yr comment (i'm using long chains of replies since it's easy to read). when they start to get to cramped start a new comment thread.
give an idea of src, and then content
THX!