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Where’s Waldo?

I quite like the thought of some over-worked member of the Revolutionary Guard huddled over his copy of Photoshop for Dummies

Remember that Iran did a photoshop of some missiles being launched last year.

Great spot!! Nice one. Reminds me of the photoshopped pictures of the Iranian missile tests. Such photo trickery is often, but not always,a good sign of a weakening regime. It always reminds me of the Stalinist photo alterations, especially the removal of Trotsky from pictures of him and Lenin.

I got a hat tip!
I prefer the aged Iranian with the Che tattoo.

I notice George Galloway MP grinning in the middle of the picture. Seems like he got a promotion at Press TV.

I’d like to repost this image but need a better reference than just a hat-tip to “doc martyn”! anyone could have made up this image.

I’d like to repost this image but need a better reference than just a hat-tip to “doc martyn”! anyone could have made up this image.

could whoever it was that posted a link to the ‘Iran election’ thread at Twitter please post it again? I promise to bookmark it this time. Thanks.

I guess in Teheran they don’t want him but all the hillbillies do. Yes he has to carry his supporters to the show from the countryside, but there is a lot of countryside surrounding Teheran and other cities.

My sense is that the higher ups in Iran don’t know how to handle this. They might be making a big mistake by saying that they will investigate the election. If they don’t change the result, that would re-ignite the protests.

Stan

If you need to photoshop supporters into a picture of a rally, you probably have problems.

If your cops wear ski masks, you probably have problems.

And this matters how? The ‘opposition’ candidate, who by the way started Iran’s nuclear program was hand picked by the clerics to be the official ‘other’ guy that hip urban young people could vote for and vent their displeasure with the regime.

Security forces arrested a pro-reform activist and an editor on Wednesday while a provincial prosecutor warned that those causing unrest faced the death penalty. An official inquiry was launched into an attack on university students.

Mohammadreza Habibi, prosecutor-general in the province of Isfahan, said: “We warn the few … controlled by foreigners who try to disrupt domestic security by inciting individuals to destroy and to commit arson that the Islamic penal code for such individuals waging war against God is execution.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55F54520090617?sp=true

Right about now George Galloway at PressTV, Robert Fisk at Al Jazerra and the cohorts of pundits that have slavishly supported the fascist Islamic Republic are hoping against hope that the mullahs survive and leaves their twisted worldview and over paid jobs intact.

I have just heard that the real death toll is much higher than that currently reported and the regime is desperate to end the demonstrations. During the 1979 Revolution the Islamists used the burial ceremonies of those killed in the rioting to trigger more demonstrations. Here is hoping that the same dynamics now take place.

Many innocents will be murdered by the Islamist thugs but then this is the price for freeing Iran from the hands of these oppressors.

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This seriously deserves HP attention:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/16/queens-honours-obe

Think of George in his black balaclaved ensemble rather than his cat suit, and Tammimi and Corbyn in their less exotic suits – minus the hats that adorn the strange Jewish dolls who fringe their Trafalgar Square demonstrations – and you have a perfect picture of the gallant Iranian Guards who are busily taking care of the human beings in Iran who don’t want the Guardians to think on their behalf.

You utterly loathsome creatures.

Hilarious dim-wittery over at Ahmadinejad’s fan-club, aka MPACuk. One ardent supporter of Armchairsarebad gets intoa total tizzy, complaining:

“Whilst there have been accusations against pro-Ahmedinijad supporters for photoshopping pictures anti-ahmedinijad supporters are doing alot worse.

They are fooling the lazy western media and gullible westerners by using old pictures.”

He then produces two completely different photographs, taken at different rallies in the same place (central Isfahan), from different angles – photopgraphs that clearly show completely different crowds – as “evidence” of the duplicity of the Zionist-imperialist plot to destabilise the freedom-loving Islamic Republic.

Here is this twit’s “evidence”:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×5852399

compare and contrast with

http://twitpic.com/7ki6e

Fucking amazing what us zionist-imperialists can do with Photoshop, eh?

Source: http://forum.mpacuk.org/showthread.php?t=42706goto=newpost

Thanks, mesquito. I think.
What a puke-making creature – and self-congratulatory piece.

Can you provide the link to the original photo? I cannot find it on the Press TV site.

My mother’s Iranian cleaner has just told her what is happening in Iran is the Arabs want to take over. She refers to Amahdinejad as an Arab. I can’t work that one out.

I’d like to second the request for the source of the photo…

Even the supporters in the foreground look a little Sgt. Pepperish.

Um, where did the photo come from?

P.

It was yesterdays front page on keyhan. I am at work and don’t have the window. Look up yeasterdays Keyhan and look for the original. I can’t read Farsi so I can’t do it myself, I picked it up from twitter.

http://kojayi.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/keyhans-photoshopped-photos-from-pro-ahmadinejad-rallies/

i would like to see a link to the original, though.

(meaning the source of this obviously photoshopped pic)

Keyhan published the same picture as above. What I’m asking is where is THE original photo. This particular post is racing around the Internet as a fact and it may well be. But without proof of publication of the original photo, it’s possible that the fake is a fake, too.

We need to see the original in order to accept that it was distributed as authentic in the first place.

Oh god, some troll on the twittersite responded to the photoshopped pic of the Ahmadinajad rally by saying that the pictures of the holocaust are faked.

I guess in Teheran they don’t want him but all the hillbillies do.

So that’s why so many groups of supporters in the picture look alike? It’s not photoshopping, it’s inbreeding!

Infidel753, you are a racist bigot who discriminates against cloned photoshop pixels. You ought to be ashamed!

I blame the Jews and their global control of….of…..something or other.

Josh

yes Goebels peersonally photoshopped them

I post on a irregular basis on the likes of politicalbetting and Guido. You guys would describe me as a loony lefty, but hear me out on this…

I’ve noticed that those usual suspects who are always complaining and demonstrating when Nazis get a seat into the European Parliament or Bush fixes an election are how can I put slightly less vocal this time around.

This bastard denies that the holocaust ever took place and yet we haven’t seen much comment from here – all I’ve seen from those on the left is that we shouldn’t interfere…unlike during Apartheid…why is that?

Why are the likes of the SWP and Respect remarkably quiet on this issue? Is it because Ahmanidejad staying in power actually suits their agenda – aka continual support for Hizbollah and Hamas, which means continuing attacks on Israel, which means that these groups have an excuse to keep breathing? No doubt if this was a loony right-wing twat like Bush then they would be on the streets demanding blood. But Ahmanidejad is a fucking conservative religious nutjob!

Perhaps I’m thinking with too much common sense.

What these last few days have shown in those supposed lefties in the public eye are as hypocritical as those they criticise – they give those of us who want democracy everywhere in the world a bad name – note the way the conservative right have been able to turn this into something to beat Obama up with.

It should be in all our interests that all people have the right to democratic and free elections and not just those that it suits us to have that right, whilst those who have live in the jackboot of the likes of Mugabe and Ahmanidejad (formerly heroes of the repressive left) have to continue living under those conditions, because it’s in our government’s interests to do so. Utter fucking bollocks.

And for the record I want all religion to go and crawl back into its neandethal cave that it came from in the first place. Religion has no place in the 21st century world that we live in.

Well thank goodness the Iranian government is still allowing Photoshop…

“And for the record I want all religion to go and crawl back into its neandethal cave that it came from in the first place. Religion has no place in the 21st century world that we live in.”

Your ‘tolerance’ is duly noted. I maean, who wouldn;t want to escape the repression of the Untied Methodist Church of Plato Township, Illinois?

And for the record I want all religion to go and crawl back into its neandethal cave that it came from in the first place. Religion has no place in the 21st century world that we live in.

And when you become Comrade Dictator for Life in your utopian Socialist Paradise, no doubt you will proscribe it and appoint a Religious Ban Commissariat to enforce this and send all offenders to a holiday camp in Siberia.

We at iran.whyweprotest.net have been following this for a while. The photo was supposed to have appeared “yesterday”, but the blog post about it was posted on the 10th of june (20th Khordad 1388 by the Persian calendar), so that would mean that it was on the front page of Kayhan on the 9th of june (19th Khordad).

As to why we are not interfering with Iran’s unrest, we are watching and waiting for Iran to collapse from the inside. If we were to try to impose our position on what the Iranian regime should do, we risk a more bloody change of power. What we are doing is more compassionate for the Iranian people.