As per his Friday prayer speech in Tehran yesterday, the Ayatollah is clearly siding with Ahmadinejad, opening the road for what I fear might be the brutal suppression of the reformists and those pissed that their candidate, Mousavi, was short-changed in last week’s election. With SMS, the foreign press (and their websites), email, and social media applications almost all shut down, the news is coming out rapid fire through Twitter and You Tube. The video above is of a woman reading a poem out of what I assume is her Tehran apartment window last night, the voices of her neighbourhood stoically yelling “God is Great!” into the night. It’s a stunning lament, very emotional, very Emersonion: “every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind”…

No one knows how big the crowds will be today. If the protest march isn’t called off and the momentum continues, I think we could see a sea of people, possibly in the millions. Whether the afternoon will also witness the beginnings of a full-on revolution (complete with requisite civilian bloodbath) is totally up in the air, dependent on a variety of variables, among them the always reliable well-aimed rock and the ever-present itchy, untrained trigger finger. I’d say that I’m hoping no one gets hurt, but we’ve all seen this movie before. If I was into praying, my knees would be sore.

Go ahead and read along at #iranelection. It’s a revolution in 140 characters or less. Samples from the stream after the leap…

Marzeh_Porgohar: Take your Qorans with you. No Muslim will dare to take the life of another while holding the Qoran in their hands #iranelection.

azsandhawk: Citizens of Iran! How will you answer your children if you do not participate?! Support the spontaneous people’s rebellion! #iranelection

mortenkj: @ #iranelection protesters: FIRST AID for protesters, and how to PROTECT YOURSELF from police brutatlity http://tinyurl.com/mvuv8o

rosa_rugosa: RT: Be calm, don’t get provoked! Stand together. Good luck! #iranelection

kir277: #iranelection This day will show the true face of the regime. True islam does not kill its own people! Please stay calm!

KnightKrawlr: Basij will wait at parked cars and attack once ppl get back in to go home, they will follow ppl home. Walk in lgr groups. #iranelection

bbnetworked: RT HOW TO CREATE A GUERRILLA RADIO STATION, FOR IRAN PROTESTERS: http://bit.ly/CxWBc (expand) #gr88 #iranelection

MsVFAB: feel like somebody’s foot is on my neck,preventing me 2 breathe.I can do almost nothing online. suppression.want to cry. #IranElection

cafechi: confirmed: Ghochani chief editor of Etemad Melli newspaper that belongs to Karoubi has been arrested last midnight #iranelection

IranDemokratia: ALLAH OH AKBAR!! DEATH TO THE DICTATOR!! #IranElection

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