What's going on in Iran?

Former Highway Patrol Officer Dave Hollenbeck sent me this:

This came from a retired CHP Officer (1959-71)

AMAZING VIDEO AND SONG FOR ABOUT TWO MINUTES - WORTH WATCHINIG

Hi All,

This is hard to believe but my stepdaughter Raya Yarbrough, is becoming the singing voice of the new Iranian “revolution.” Her fiancé Bear McCreary wrote all the music for the TV series Battlestar Galactica. Raya sang on several tracks including this song, which fit the TV show perfectly but was actually about the Armenian genocide and their fight for freedom. Someone took the song and just made this amazing video of the current Iranian protests for more freedom. We are working to push it into millions of views. Please pass it along.

“Today we are all Iranians.”

Part I

Part II

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An Iranian's Open Letter to Barack Hussein Obama

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Received via email: Here’s a list of the embassy addresses taken from http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassies-in/Iran#13964 and from embassy websites, and broken into easy formatting. I put the original list together, this one is much better formatted and likely more accurate. The original list was compiled purely from twitter. We tried calling the embassies for confirmation of their actions but the international circuits are completely jammed up.

Ireland – North Kamranieh Avenue Bonbast Nahid Street, No. 8 19369 – (98 21)-22 80 38 35

Australia – No. 13, 23rd Street Khalid Islambuli Ave Tehran 15138 – (98 21) 88 72 44 56

Finland – Elahiyeh, Agha Bozorgi St Shirin Alley no.4 P.O.Box 19395-1733 – (98-21) 22 20 70 90; 22 23 09 79

Finland (Alternate) No. 2, Haddadian St., Mirzapour St. (former Soheil St.), Dr. Shariati Ave. Tehran 19336

Germany – Ferdowsi Ave., No 320-324, Teheran – (0098 21) 39 99 00 00

Belgium – Elahieh – 155-157 Shahid Fayyazi Avenue (Fereshteh) 16778 Teheran – (98) (21) 22 04 16 17

Canada – 57 Shahid Javad-e-Sarfaraz, Ostad-Motahari Avenue 15868 Tehran, Iran – (98 21) 81 52 00 00

Netherlands – Darrous, Shahrzad Blvd Kamasaie Street, First East Lane No. 33 – 98 (0) 21 .22 56 70 05 / 22 56 70 07

Norway – No. 201 Dr. Lavasani St. (Ex. Farmanieh St.) Corner of Sonbol St. Tehran, Iran – (0098 21) 22 29 13 33

Italy – 81, Ave. Neuphle le Chateau – 98 21 672 6955

Slovenian Republic – No 30, Narenjestan 8th Alleym, Pasdaran Avenue PO Box 19576 19575-459 – (98-21) 280- 2223

United Kingdon – 198 Ferdowsi Avenue – (98) (21) 64 05 20 00

Switzerland – Elahieh Ave. Sharifimanesh Yasaman Street No. 2 P.O. Box 19395-4683 19649

Tehran – 98 (0)21 22 00 83 33

Address of Embassy of Finland is different from that on their official web page:
Embassy of Finland No. 2, Haddadian St., Mirzapour St. (former Soheil St.), Dr. Shariati Ave. Tehran 19336 (Eastern entrance / Consular and visa customers)
http://www.finland.org.ir/public/default.aspx?nodeid=39986&contentlan=2&culture=en-US

NOTICE WHO IS NOT THERE???

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TO LIVE OR JUST BE ALIVE – THAT'S THE QUESTION
Written by Persian Professor
Sunday, 21 June 2009

[An extraordinarily poignant and vividly powerful eyewitness account of the protests for freedom in Tehran yesterday, June 20, by a philosophy professor at Tehran University.]

We gather up with my students on Saturdays for a private class. We cook and eat together, then talk of philosophy. This time there was no class. We only tried to keep up our morale. We were very determined but scared.

That is how I can describe the most people who came out to attend the demonstration today. After the fierce speech [by Ayatollah Khomenei] at the Friday prayers, we knew that today we would be treated differently. We felt so vulnerable, more than ever, but at the same time were aware of our power, which, no matter how influential it is collectively, would have done little to protect us today.

We could only take our bones and flesh to the streets and expose them to batons and bullets. Two different feelings fight inside you without mixing with one another. To live or to just be alive, that's the question.

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