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One last brief note, and then I must go to bed...	Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 03:48 am

(Because apart from anything else, Chas and Dean are expected back tomorrow, and I will not be getting away with late nights any more, that's for sure...)

Looking over the stuff from Iran... the video of the cries of Allaho Akbar ringing back and forth through the night is chilling.

The photos of the march are awe-inspiring.

I wonder what's going to happen.

I'm going to stop by the church to light candles again tomorrow.

I wonder what's going to happen. I'm amazed by the courage and conviction they have... it's not something that, as an Australian, I generally think about. Stolen elections aren't on the radar here - the AEC is trusted, and so on.

I find myself thinking that Iran would probably be best served holding another election, administered by New Zealand officials.

Usually, the go-to agency for organising reliable elections in foreign countries is, in fact, the Australian Electoral Commission - it's administered, or helped to organise and administer, a number of elections overseas at the behest of the United Nations, because the AEC know what they're doing and have a very good reputation.

However, Australia was allied with ~~Bush~~ the USA from the beginning of the Iraq War, whereas New Zealand not only refused to join the "Coalition of the Willing", it was opposed to the invasion, and is perhaps less likely to seem questionable to Iranians.

Important: If you have a Twitter/facebook/blog feed/account, set it to GMT +3:30 (Tehran). This makes it harder for the police and censors to identify and shut down protesters. Regardless of whether the election was actually stolen or not - I have no real information on that, but I get the impression the case is convincing - the absolute, tiniest minimum we, as human beings, can do to try and help the people of Iran right now is to try and deflect the suppression of their ability to communicate.

Personally, I don't know that there's anything at all else I could do, but I have done that. My twitter account - which I've been ignoring for weeks, much as I have LiveJournal - is now set to Tehran for time zone and location. Iranian censors can't touch me, Iranian police can't hurt me - but if they go looking for Iranian protesters and find me instead, that's a very good thing.