“Get the full picture …” because when we see truth with our own eyes, it’s easier to see through the longest war’s lies. [As Tweetdeck and many others have said]: “A picture tells a thousand words …”
As much as we like to use our words, the green leaves around a purple flower from a Tweetdeck page …
… say more about the robust life-force to grow, freely, than any indistinct text even if brought into focus. Twitter and third party apps like Tweetdeck have gotten the cell-phone photos out of Iran about the mullah-led post-electoral suppressions of the people’s will to freedom. Used this way, call technology my hero. The dominator old men of the longest war’s portion in Iran may now have stopped even Twitter’s tiny url’s from getting outside the man-made lines drawn as Iran’s national boundaries. But not before these images emerged of the green of freedom adopted by women and men joining together as freedom-lovers in Iran.
- The moderate Mousavi was identified before the elections (and resulting people’s revolt over the election being called a win by the previously ruling mullah-militarists of Ahmadinejad) as likely to beat Ahmadinejad.
- Mousavi in outreach to Iranian women branded himself successfully as the green candidate – though the color did not reflect a commitment to environmental issues so much as progressive Islamic resonance symbolic of constructive change and liberation.
- After what Mousavi’s supporters identify as rigged elections for the status quo, these images that got out indicate what we know about bravery and revolt in Iran (before the dominator government’s efforts at information blackout):
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