Following today's protests, Iranian government has cut off our internet access. We can't even check Gmail & Yahoo mail.: Via reddit.com .

Following today's protests, Iranian government has cut off our internet access. We can't even check Gmail & Yahoo mail. This might be sign of a second round of crackdown & here's what you can do about it.

Now, What does this blockade mean?

It could be a last-minute effort to prevent today's footage & pictures from getting out.
But it could also be sign of a second wave of arrests; they might try to arrest Musavi & Karrubi (Opposition leaders).
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U.S. worried about American scholar detained in Iran: Via Reuters on Yahoo! News.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States called on Iran on Monday to release U.S. citizen Kian Tajbakhsh and said it was "deeply concerned" about the scholar, who was detained in Tehran last week and has previously been accused of spying.

Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American who holds a doctorate in urban planning from Columbia University, was arrested by Iranian authorities in May 2007, charged with spying and then released after more than four months in Tehran's Evin prison.

It was not clear why Tajbakhsh was detained last week.
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Iran says 20 killed in post-election turmoil: Via AFP on Yahoo! News.

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Twenty people were killed and more than 1,000 arrested in the protests that swept Tehran after the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad last month, the country's police chief said Wednesday.

"No policeman was killed in the Tehran riots but 20 rioters were killed," police chief Ahmadi Moghaddam was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

"Police arrested 1,032 people in the recent riots. Many have been released and the rest are being prosecuted in Tehran's public and revolutionary courts," he added.

Tehran and other cities across Iran were roiled by a wave of opposition protests over Ahmadinejad's re-election in the June 12 presidential poll that his opponents claim was rigged.

The English-language state-run Press TV had reported a death toll of 20 people, including eight members of the Basij volunteer Islamic militia which was at the forefront of the crackdown on protests.

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Iran says British embassy detainees stirred unrest: Via AP on Yahoo! News.

Witnesses who spoke with the AP said they did not spot Mousavi at the rally. But one of his close assistants addressed the crowd through a loudspeaker and other opposition figures also appeared, including reformist presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi.

Sunday's clashes erupted at a rally that had been planned to coincide with a memorial held each year for Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, who came to be considered a martyr in the Islamic Republic after he was killed in a major anti-regime bombing in 1981.

Iranian authorities say 17 protesters and eight members of the volunteer Basij militia have been killed in two weeks of unrest, and that hundreds of people have been arrested.

The Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights said its information suggests at least 2,000 arrests have been made
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Iran's Rezai ready to serve on vote review panel: Via AFP on Yahoo! News.

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai said on Saturday he was prepared to join a panel on post-election complaints if the other losers do as well, the ILNA news agency reported.

"I welcome the Guardians Council?s decision to set up a special board for the candidates? complaints, even though this announcement came late," Rezai, a conservative, said in a letter to the electoral body.

"This is a good move and I welcome it. If others (Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi) send their representatives to the board, I will do so."

Mousavi and Karroubi have called for the cancellation of the poll, which led to the re-election of Mahmound Ahmadinejad for another four years, and the holding of a new one.

Rezai called on both men to take part in the panel in order to "remove electoral ambiguities and suspicions as well as obtain people?s rights."
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