May Day is celebrated throughout most of the world as a public holiday.
May 1 is considered as the Labour Day by almost all the nations of the world. The workers of the world celebrate this as an annual holiday. This day is the result of a massive labor union movement; this day celebrates the social and economic achievements of workers. This day is also known as May Day. Not only these two names, May 1 has many other names like Worker’s day, National Unification Day, Day of Kazak people’s Unity, Eid el-Ommal, etc.
New Year is an extravagantly celebrated festival in all the cultures in the world. Each culture celebrates New Year according to their calendar. Countries which follow the Gregorian calendar celebrate New Year on January 1st every year which is considered the most festive day amongst all the other days of the year. Read the rest of this entry »
Iran Observes the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Iman Ali.
This day commemorates the anniversary Imam Ali’s martyrdom at Kufa Mosque. Ali is remembered as the first Imam and Ali was also the first successor of Prophet Muhammad. Read the rest of this entry »
Iran celebrates Birthday of Iman Ali as a public holiday.
The festival is celebrated as the name suggests commemorating the birthday of Imam Ali also known as Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, born on approximately October 23 598, or 600 or March 17 599.
You can help now by going to your twitter account settings and changing your location to Tehran and to the time zone (3:30) for Iran. This will confuse the Iranian government so that they cannot detect where the tweets are coming from inside Iran.
As you’ve read, twitter has become the main source of news about the troubling elections in Iran and the aftermath. The Main Stream Media (MSM) at first ignored what was happening until prodded because of the coverage of the explosion of information on twitter. And most of the MSM’s story since then has been about the twitter effect, not the actual story of the stolen election. Shame on the MSM for their hideous coverage.
There are courageous twitterers in Iran getting the story out. And for that we’re grateful. But, don’t let being grateful interfer with their story. People are wellmeaning in their support of the Iranian twitterers. But, that can also be harmful. Here are some suggestions on how to react.
* Don’t respond to the Iranian tweets, no matter how much support you want to give them. The twitterers in Iran are taking huge risks to get the story out. The Iranian government wants to shut them down. Don’t inadvertently help that government. Don’t respond to the tweets. When you respond your tweet has to go through it’s circuitous route to get back to the Iranian twitterer’s account. This can be tracked. I’m sure the Iranian government is trying to track the whereabouts of the Iranian twitterers.
* Don’t clog the Iranian twitterers’ channels. Thank the Iranian twitterers after this is all over. If you must twitter your suport do so to your own followers, or to support groups in this country that have already been set up.
* If you are creating a proxy IP for the Iranian twitterers, don’t publicize it with hashtags. Again, the Iranian government is watching and tracking. If you don’t know what proxy IP means, good. Means you’re not doing it.
* If you are twittering make it difficult for the Iranian government. Go to your Twitter settings and change your location to Tehran, and to that time zone (+3:30). The Iranian government can immediately tell foreign twitterers by their country of origin/timezone settings. These they can ignor in their quest to find out the heroic Iranian twitterers. Harder for them to track the Iranian twitterers if we’re all Spartacus/Iranians.
* Be on the lookout for false Iranian government twitter accounts masquerading as anti-government accounts. This is a perfect way for the Iranian government to spread false rumors.
* At the moment the best twitter source for Iranian information is @persiankiwi. Just follow, but don’t respond. This person(s) is in great danger and you don’t want to accidentally help the Iranian government find the people using this twitter account.
* Don’t use the #iranelection hashtag in your tweets. Leave this one to the Iranians to use. Again, we don’t want to clog up their message.