Are You Getting Tired of Reading About This Yet?

Alright, #2 in a series of my favorite track ones, an absolutely classic track by Gil Scott-Heron. I picked the version off of "Pieces of a Man" because even though the older version has the cool back-alley feel, I really like the instrumentation on this one. Dig:



Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

So, before I start on today's events (yeah, this is basically an Iran blog for the time being until something more interesting happens elsewhere), I want to share a kind of cool video with you that's been circulating around. Some riot police are manhandling some protesters and then a whole sea of people comes shouting and shaking their fists, sending the riot police running in the opposite direction. I don't know when it's from, but I'm pretty sure it's from Saturday. Leave the song above on and make sure you watch the whole thing; the end is quite possibly the punkest thing ever:

Battle w/ Police - Tehran, Iran - June 20th 2009
by mightier-than

Wow, right? Anyway, I saw this late last night: apparently the spokesman of the Guardian Council (responsible for overseeing fairness of voting if I'm not mistaken), Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, has gone ahead and made this announcement, which sounds like something straight out of the mouth of Springfield Mayor Joe Quimby:

"Statistics provided by the candidates, who claim more than 100% of those eligible have cast their ballot in 80-170 cities are not accurate -- the incident has happened in only 50 cities."

Immediately after making this statement, Mr. Kadkhodaei said, "D'oh!"

Anyway, apparently it's not a big deal after all because people are allowed to vote in places other than where they are registered, just like here. But at any rate, that too was reported by Iranian state TV (remember the Tom-and-Jerry style struggle from yesterday's post?), which makes it even more interesting. What is going on??

Andrew Sullivan, who's reporting is getting more and more cheez-wiz with all of the hero talk as the days go by, has now reported that Rafsanjani has a letter with signatures from 40 out of the 86 members of the Assembly of Experts calling for the annulment of the election. Nobody else has speculated this (so I could very well just be wrong), but if he could only get 40 signatures on that letter, that seems to rule out the possibility that he was going to go for some kind of "impeachment" of Khamenei, at least this early on. We'll see where things go - there is supposed to be a national strike beginning either tomorrow or Wednesday, a huge rally mourning the recent deaths is supposed to take place on Thursday, and I am somehow supposed to take my Nutrition midterm on Friday. Well, that's just wonderful.