This is about basic human rights. Regardless of your view on the election in Iran, the people, the citizens should be able to voice their disapproval without repercussions of severe and deadly violence. Two weeks ago I tweeted that I would hoist a beer with the world if Ahmadinejad lost and then earlier this week I changed my avatar on twitter to green. At the time, I stated that it was completely non-consequential support for the protesters in Iran. I was wrong.

In the past day, we have witnessed a cyber protest that is unprecedented in the history of media. People across the globe are not only communicating with the protesters risking their lives on the ground but actively helping. For in the age of instant communication, a government cannot stop a message, just as the music industry will never stop file sharing, the masses are too great, too strong. And while I first thought my support was immaterial, I have come to realize that the simple act of spreading the word, helping to keep the world's eye on the events, merely showing that we care, is enough to make a difference however small. I urge you to do the same.

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A solid article from one of the few reporters on the scene.

The long-standing Middle East correspondent for The Independent, Robert Fisk, is defying the government crackdown on foreign media reporting in Iran.

As he explains, he has been travelling around the streets of Tehran all day and most of the night and things are far from quiet:

I've just been witnessing a confrontation, in dusk and into the night, between about 15,000 supporters of Ahmadinejad - supposedly the president of Iran - who are desperate to down the supporters of Mr Mousavi, who thinks he should be the president of Iran.

There were about 10,000 Mousavi men and women on the streets, with approximately 500 Iranian special forces, trying to keep them apart.

It was interesting that the special forces - who normally take the side of Ahmadinejad's Basij militia - were there with clubs and sticks in their camouflage trousers and their purity white shirts and on this occasion the Iranian military kept them away from Mousavi's men and women.

In fact at one point, Mousavi's supporters were shouting 'thank you, thank you' to the soldiers.

One woman went up to the special forces men, who normally are very brutal with Mr Mousavi's supporters, and said 'can you protect us from the Basij?' He said 'with God's help'.

It was quite extraordinary because it looked as if the military authorities in Tehran have either taken a decision not to go on supporting the very brutal militia - which is always associated with the presidency here - or individual soldiers have made up their own mind that they're tired of being associated with the kind of brutality that left seven dead yesterday - buried, by the way secretly by the police - and indeed the seven or eight students who were killed on the university campus 24 hours earlier.

Full Article at abc.net.au