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Follow on Google News | Middle East on a Verge of New Text and Tweet Revolution Driven by IranIranian authorities have jammed satelite TV channels, blocked opposition websites, cut off text messaging. Still words, images and videos are trickling beyond the censors linking protesters from Tehran to elsewhere in the country.
By: smsfree4all.com Sunni nations such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others have tense relations with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Shiite-led theocracy ruling Iran. With the merger of Facebook and Twitter along with a potent Iranian opposition leader and presidential challenger Mir-Hossein Mousav , democratic fervor is merging strong in Iran. Iranian authorities have jammed satelite TV channels, blocked opposition websites, cut off text messaging. Still words, images and videos are trickling beyond the censors linking protesters from Tehran to elsewhere in the country. Recent strong protest comes from years of disillusionment that suddenly leap from cafes and university campuses to a national revolt. Persiankiwi's tweets list updates of police movements and arrests: "Our street is quiet now — we cannot move tonight but must move asap when dawn starts." Difficulty activist such as Persiankiwi's faces on Twitter feed, which has nearly 19,000 followers, posted this: "I must log off now — will log on when I have more info — need phone line — no mobile cover, no sms, no satellite, no radio." Many difficulties experience by international media such as Teymoor Nabili, a reporter for Al Jazeera, wrote on the network's website: "Day-by-day our ability to access any information has been slowly whittled away. . . . I am no longer allowed to take a camera out into the streets. I'm not even sure I can walk out into the streets with a mobile phone without getting into trouble." Activisits and bloggers are using internet based SMS service such as (http://smsfree4all.com/ # # # SMSFree4ALL.COM (http://smsfree4all.com) is dedicated to providing the capability to send FREE unlimited SMS and Picture Messages (http://smsfree4all.com/ End
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