Month: June 2009

Later, as night fell over the tumultuous capital, gunfire could be heard in the distance. And from rooftops across the city, the defiant sound of “Allah-u-Akbar” — “God is Great” — went up yet again, as it has every night since the fraudulent election. But on Saturday it seemed stronger. The same cry was heard in 1979, only for one form of absolutism to yield to another. Iran has waited long enough to be free.

I think the project will succeed or fail based in large part on the usability of our edit screens. If it’s too hard to put information in, or it feels like they’re always doing it wrong, then they’ll stop.

“Every society has to make their own version of freedom and democracy, and that is what the Iranian people are doing right now” – Ahmad Batebi