Further Iran Urgings

Dear Friends,

I don’t know why I’ve become so impassioned by the situation in Iran but I feel a great responsibility to speak up and speak out. If you haven’t heard the news, Tehran has been in chaos since the election results were declared in Iran, naming Mahmoud Ahmedinijed the winner for another 4 years. There have been numerous allegations and it is becoming increasingly clear that his “victory” is fraudulent. More than a million people have taken the streets in peaceful protest – only to be met by violent police and military resistance. Tehran has completely crippled any mainstream news media from reporting accurately the events in the city – exactly what you would not expect from a “Democratically elected government.” In an election where 80% of the electorate voted, the country knows they have been ripped off.

This is not simply a matter belonging to some other country, some other place. In the events that take place in the coming days, so much is at stake. The security and stability of the Middle East, four more years of tension and hate-mongering by the holocaust denying Ahmedinijed, and a people – not much different than you and I – taken hostage.

I have no idea what to ask any of you to do but more than anything else I want you all to read about it and pray about it. Pray that the Truth would come out. That the world would respond to the atrocities of this corrupt and hateful regime. That somehow God would open the doors for the country to be open. For Iran to be free.

As Americans we heard so much talk about war with Iran during the election. Right now, in this very moment, the world has the opportunity to force a madman out of office without a single bomb. Please talk with your friends about it. Educate yourself about what the heck is going on. Email your friends and family. Talk to your kids for crying out loud so that they will understand what it means to live in a free country!

Dozens are reported dead by semi-official media releases. Images online and the twitterworld suggest more than a hundred. Many innocent have been jailed for speaking out in masse.

Force yourself to watch and share the clips on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBp2p3MGJqw

Browse images taken by professional media and civilian Iranians: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

Follow the “news” on Twitter since all we have are brave youth with cell phones: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23iranelection

Change your profile pics on all your social network sites and spread the news. http://www.flickr.com/photos/harrystaab/3631624611/

Write letters to the editors, call congressmen, or find some other way to show your support and demand the world listen.

Like I asked before, I beg of you again – please pray. But don’t do nothing about this. God calls us to stand up for the oppressed and to speak out against injustice. Our human hearts understand this without a Bible. Please.

Harry