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News round-up & update for June 24th & 25th

Posted by Zand-Bon on Jun 24th, 2010 and filed under News, PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS, Photos, Video, video gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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* * Below: Video of the Mournful Mothers visit Neda Agha-Soltan’s mother on the one year anniversary of Neda’s murder.

* * Below: Video of students at the Texas A & M University build a mosaic portrait of Neda along with the photos of some of the others who lost their lives during the 2009 summer protests.

* * Below: Video of the explosion of oil well number 24 in Naft-Shahr, Iran. It has been an entire month since the explosion and the burning of this well began and so far no one has been able to harness the raging fires and cap the well. No one has been able to determine the cause of the  May 29th (8th of the Persian month of Khordaad) explosion that  lead to the one-month long fire. It is estimated that the oil being lost equals approximately 8000 to 9000 barrels per day. The Iranian oil company has no clear date for resolving the situation. And yet members of the Iranian regime continue to cover up this disaster, while insisting on making a show of offering the U.S. and British Petroleum assistance in dealing with the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

* * Below: A video from the northern Iranian city of Rasht where on Thursday, June 24th at 8 p.m. a patrol car of the morality and guidance police stopped a mother and daughter wanting to detain them. The mother confronts the guards and tells them that they would have to take them away over her dead body when the guards get out of the car with a baton and begin beating the mother. At that moment, everyone on the street gathers around in support of the mother and daughter and begin booing and chanting “Dictator, dictator”, forcing the guards to get back in their patrol car and drive away, out of the fear of the crowd.

1 Response for “News round-up & update for June 24th & 25th”

  1. says:

    [...] which started with an explosion a full month ago and is still burning with great intensity, as you can see. (scroll down a bit).  I can promise you that the explosion was no [...]

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