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http://twitter.com/kiraber Challenging the President's Right-Hand Man. Yesterday we posted this video of a crowd surrounding Presidential Chief of Staff Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai at a rally on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KGa0EMlByU&feature=player_embedded#at=152 Egyptian Activists Message to Iranians: Learn From Egyptians, And We Learned From You Tags: wael ghonim <http://www.iranhumanrights.org/tag/wael-ghonim/> [image: Print]<http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2011/02/wael-ghonim-on-iran/print/> <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php> Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian activist hailed by observers worldwide as a hero and one of the leaders of the Egyptian uprising, talked to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and thanked the people of Iran for organizing a demonstration on 14 February in solidarity with the people of Egypt and Tunisia, and thanked the Iranian civil rights movement. Ghonim played a major role in organizing the protests that have shaken Egypt for the past two weeks. His Facebook page is widely credited with inviting Egyptians to their first public protest on 25 January. Wael Ghonim has appeared with a green wristband during his public speeches and interviews. As the peaceful protests after the disputed 2009 presidential election in Iran came to be known as the Green Movement, Ghonims green wristband has become a source of interest for Iranians. When asked by the Campaign whether the motivation behind his green wristband is Irans Green Movement, he said: That was just a coincidence, but Im happy you guys made the connection! *I would tell Iranians to learn from the Egyptians, as we have learned from you guys, that at the end of the day with the power of people, we can do whatever we want to do. If we unite our goals, if we believe, then all our dreams can come true, is the prominent Egyptian activists message to Iranians on the threshold of the 14 February demonstrations.* Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who took time off from his job to be in Cairo during the protests, was freed last Monday after being held by Egyptian authorities for 10 days. He is one of the best known speakers for the Egyptian peoples movement. The Latest from Iran (12 February): The Regime's Day Came and It Went Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 7:09AM Scott Lucas in 25 Bahman, Ali Larijani, BBC Persian, Babak Dad, EA Iran, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East and Iran, Zahra Eftekhari 1715 GMT: Clash of the Day. *Aftab News* is reporting that four supporters of President Ahmadinejad disrupted a speech<http://aftabnews.ir/vdcezz8zvjh8wei.b9bj.html>by Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani in Qom. 1620 GMT: A Difference from Cairo. The reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front has issued a statement making clear that, in contrast to the uprising in Egypt, it is not pursuing regime change<http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2011/02/110212_l44_majma_mosharekat_statement.shtml> . 1525 GMT: You Can't Satisfy Everyone. Babak Dad is just a bit sceptical<http://babakdad.blogspot.com/2011/02/22.html>about the regime's claims of a successful show yesterday. 1520 GMT: Challenging the President's Right-Hand Man. Yesterday we posted this video of a crowd surrounding Presidential Chief of Staff Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai at a rally on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. We re-post it with translated extracts: "Why do you have 17 positions?/Mashaei haya kon, Ahmadi ro raha kon! (Have shame, quit Ahmadi!)/Marg bar monafegh (Death to MKO)/Monafegh boro gomsho! (MKO get lost!)/Leave Ahmadinejad for the sake of Supreme Leader and people: 1510 GMT: 25 Bahman. A coalition of seven university student organisations have called on political groups and senior clerics<http://www.rahesabz.net/story/32264/>to support Monday's rally. *Persian2English*has more on statements by student groups<http://persian2english.com/?p=20040>across Iran. *Daneshjoo News* carries a statement from university organisations<http://www.daneshjoonews.com/news/politics/5722-1389-11-23-12-42-06.html>in Tabriz. The Facebook page for 25 Bahman <http://www.twitter.com/persianbanoo> now has more than 41,000 supporters. 1500 GMT: Jamming the Airwaves. An EA reader wrote an hour ago, "I was just watching BBC Persian and there was no sign of jamming. BUT as soon as the they announced your 0815 GMT update about the Qom seminary supporting the protests, THE FEED WAS GONE....Now the screen is all black and you can just hear a deafening signal sound!" 1420 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch. Tehran University student and Mousavi campaign activist Zahra Eftekhari has been arrested. RAHANA summarises that at least 14 activists have been detained<http://www.rahana.org/en/?p=9729>in the last three days. 1340 GMT: Censoring Bahman. We reported last night and repeated this morning 0705 GMT) that Iranian authorities have blocked Internet searches for "Bahman", the 11th month of the Persian calendar and the month of the 1979 Islamic Revolution celebrated yesterday by the regime. CNN has now followed up<http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/12/egypt.iran.rally/index.html>the story, citing two Tehran sources. 1100 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch. A series of arrests just before Monday's rally, including Mojtaba Shayesteh <http://hrana-iran.com/00/6746-1.html> of the reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front. Labour activist Mansur Osanloo, who has been detained since 2007, has reportedly suffered a heart attack<http://hrana-iran.com/1389-01-27-05-27-21/6740-1.html>and is in hospital. 0815 GMT: Supporting Protest. Seminary scholars in the religious centre of Qom have issued a statement of support<http://irangreenvoice.com/article/2011/feb/11/10786>for the people of Tunisia and Egypt against imperialism, domestic dictatorship, and religious radicalism. 0800 GMT: 25 Bahman. The activist site Unity4Iran posts the routes for marches inside and outside Iran on Monday. 0705 GMT: And so there were speeches, including one by President Ahmadinejad, and a ceremony for the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. There may be no better illustration of how the day came and went than this declaration from <http://kayhannews.ir/891123/image.jpg>*Kayhan<http://kayhannews.ir/891123/image.jpg>. *According to the newspaper, 50 million --- two-thirds of the Iranian population --- came out for the regime Debates over the size of the crowd for the day continue. But far more significant may be whether the day had any significance beyond a setpiece to make the ritual statement of Iranian progress and to denounce the "arrogance of power" of the "West". The Iranian publicity machine featured Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hour in Azadi Square in Tehran, but the speech had little of signficance beyond a brief passage setting out the President's challenge to his rivals within the establishment over his economic programme. Ahmadinejad set up the subsidy cuts and his expansion of power as moves for "justice", but he prefaced this with the unreal claim that he would eliminate unemployment by the end of his term in 2013. Press TV, with its international audience, soon left behind the events to focus on Egypt. And while State TV continued to loop images of the ceremonies in Tehran and elsewhere, this morning the anniversary of the 1979 Revolution has been relegated, even by the Islamic Republic News Agency<http://www.irna.ir/>, to a place well behind the departure of Hosni Mubarak. (Indeed --- and make of this what you will --- IRNA's report on Ahmadinejad and the 22 Bahman ceremony cannot be loaded.) Meanwhile, the regime was also attempting to break up any prospect of an opposition show on Monday. There were more arrests of journalists and activists on Saturday and disruption and jamming of communications. It is impossible to tell whether the Green Wave will make any appearance in 48 hours. But perhaps the symbolic measure of the continuing struggle for legitimacy came last night. A report came through that, if someone in wanted to learn of the full extent of the regime's celebration of 22 Bahman by typing "Bahman" into a Google search, he/she would be out of luck. 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