{"id":8237,"date":"2009-06-15T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news09.hasanagha.org\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2009-06-15T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T05:29:09","slug":"tear-gas-and-twitter-iranians-take-their-protests-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/?p=8237","title":{"rendered":"Tear gas and Twitter: Iranians take their protests online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/14\/iran.protests.twitter\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>) &#8212; Iranian protesters have found a new outlet to mobilize and take action. The presidential election has proved how much opposition supporters can demand change without necessarily taking to the streets. Just give them a computer and an Internet connection and watch what they can do.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi protest in Tehran on June 13, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>more photos \u00bb  At the height of the protests and disorder in Tehran on Saturday and Sunday, Twitter was used to give graphic accounts to a worldwide audience &#8211; even if they were a maximum of 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p>Tweets from &#8220;Change for Iran&#8221; were among several that offered real time updates: &#8220;&#8230;my friend saying more than 100 students arrested, I can&#8217;t confirm this but the numbers are high. bastards just attacked us for no reason, I lost count of how much tear gas they launched at us! &#8230;we have now some students with urgent need of medical attention I&#8217;m calling out to all ppl who can come here don&#8217;t leave us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/14\/iran.protests.twitter\/index.html\">continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; Iranian protesters have found a new outlet to mobilize and take action. The presidential election has proved how much opposition supporters can demand change without necessarily taking to the streets. Just give them a computer and an Internet connection and watch what they can do. Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,6],"tags":[1820,113,58,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news08.hasanagha.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}