I have followed and supported your struggle for a fair election and for democratization in Iran.

I am deeply disturbed however to note that the comment by Mir Hunscheid is the first one to even mention gay rights on your site. When the demonstrations began I was happy to find your site and immediately looked at your articles. I was amazed to find that you had literally hundreds of entries on the status of women in Iran and not a single reference to he persecution of gay and lesbian people. I for one know of at least one gay man who has fled iran because of gay persecution. There has been much documentation of gay harassment in iran.

All my best to you in your struggle for human rights in Iran. I will continue to demonstrate in your support,

Please acknowledge and support your sexual minorities as well and join the rest of the world in its concern for these issues.

Our weapon is thus handed to us by the mullahs themselves whereby they commit political suicide. Mullahs maybe hardliners but must surely remain realists with respect to their own goals therefore they will suffer from mistakes like those they’re making now; arresting and killing protesters and open-minded individuals who have shown they have had enough of the mullahs terror regime.

So keep posting those names of courageous individuals who willingly risk their lives and may die for the hopes and dreams of a better future for millions of others.

Professor Mark Levine writing about Iran on the Brink makes crucial points:

“It seems that the Iranian elite has been caught similarly off-guard, and is still trying to read its own society to understand how broad is the societal discontent reflected in the mass protests. This calculus is crucial – in some ways more so than whether the results are legitimate or, as some claim, electoral fraud.

It will determine whether the Iranian power elite – that is, the political-religious-military-security leadership who control the levers of state violence – moves towards negotiation and reconciliation between the increasingly distant sides, or moves to crush the mounting opposition with large-scale violence. The religious establishment is itself split into hard-line, moderate and more progressive factions, each of whose members are tied to factions within the economic, political and security elite, producing a complex and potentially volatile set of competing and contradictory loyalties and interests.

Ahmadinejad’s and Khamenei’s decisions in the coming days will be telling. If the official tally was in fact broadly accurate, then they will likely be more willing to agree not just to a recount, but even to a run-off election, if that is what it takes to pacify the angry protesters”.

There is much in his logic I agree with however I have a differing perspective on the nature, scope and source of the world system he recognizes. I further believe humanity is totally incapable of extricating itself from the grip of this “system” whose origins and source of power operate in various dimensions or realms, being spiritual in nature. In short humans are caught in an epoch and universal struggle that has engulfed earth. We have been given volition and can choose, individually or collectively, to resist this “system”. Being born in this matrix was not our choice, being of it and owned by it is optional. Through disciplines of logic and meditational prayer, the truths of Biblical teaching shine ancient light desperately needed in our confused “modern” era.

Pray for Peace and Justice for our Earth and it’s people.
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http://www.meaning.org/news/matrix.html
http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/ exec/view.cgi/5/12824
http://www.biblenews1.com/babylon/babylo n1.html

Is it possible to put together a bulleted list of names and titles/origin so that people from Twitter, FB and blogs can link to the master list?