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Facebook pages for Mousavi and his wife call for national strike in Iran

Posted by Craig Kanalley on 6/30/09 • Categorized as Elections, Mideast

The Facebook pages of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard called for an Islamic National Strike late Tuesday night.

Mousavi’s page updated first, about 7 p.m. local time, stating, “Strike: The manner of a man is better than his goverance. Help to bring this message back to IRAN.” Three hours later the status updated to “Dont underestimate the power of National islamic Strike.”

And early Wednesday, around 2 a.m. local time, both he and his wife’s pages updated to “Islamic Strike, help to spread the Voice out to fight the Bullets.” The message was posted twice in a row on both accounts.

There is no way to be sure Mousavi or his campaign staff are behind the accounts at this time. His page was utilized heavily leading up to Election Night and he now has more than 107,000 supporters. It has been used in the past since the election to let people know about upcoming events and demonstrations.

Text in Persian next to the updates ask people to spread the word via any means possible. A document written in Persian is attached, but it is an image file, so BT was unable to immediately translate it. Many are saying on Twitter that the file provides details on the strike. Some say the strike is to be held next Monday through Thursday and others say July 15-17.

It is worth noting that Mousavi’s Twitter account (@mousavi1388) has not yet posted about the strike.

Here was some immediate reaction to this development from the Twitterverse:

  1. nilou1
    rtiran the youth of iran are on the streets fighting! we must continue our support! STRIKE! STRIKE! 30 Jun 2009 from web
  2. Sattar Khan
    BaabakXorramdin Etekaf is Islamic and legal => You can, stay @home next Monday – Thursday! Iran on national strike! #gr88 #iranelection #tehran #iran 30 Jun 2009 from web
  3. Shapour Daneshmand
    shapour34 PARALIZE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE IN IRAN. 01 Jul 2009 from web
  4. sean
    s3anryan i am really interested to see if mousavi pulls off organizing a national islamic strike in iran next week. #iranelection 01 Jul 2009 from Tweetie
  5. korkie
    korkie Have a peaceful strike. The lost of $$$ will bring chance. Be careful, be safe, be free. #iranelection #iran #neda #gr88 #freeiran 01 Jul 2009 from web
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  • Stephen Schiavone
    Good Luck.
  • Joseph Madden
    The only way to bring down the Ayatolla regime is to strike and never give up until your demands are met and people freed. Power of the clergy should be replaced with power of the people. All humans are born free, including the proud women of Iran. It is time to jump inot the 21st century and out of the middle ages. The rich Ayatollahs have stolen your freedom and your money. they have become rich at your expense.
  • ckanal
    interesting points Joseph. thanks for commenting.
  • Anonymous
    15-17 Tir is not the same as 15-17 July. It is 6-8 July.
  • ckanal
    Great - Thank you.
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