Iranian elections give Ahmadinejad massive majority; Tehran goes to shit.

News from the last 12 hours or so:

- A picture of what is claimed to be a huge opposition rally in Isfahan is being widely circulated on Twitter

- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni has condemned the
protests as "vandalism", according to state TV, but also endorsed the
guardian council's decision to conduct a partial recount of Friday's
ballot.

- The US state department requested Twitter delay it's maintenence
until 1.30am Iran Time last night so not to interrupt one of the
protesters main forms of communication.

- More protests were arranged for today, starting at 1:30pm BST, 8:30am EST, 5:30pm Iran Time in Tir Square.

- The blog of the reformist Mohammad Ali Abtahi is no longer available.
In his last post he described the election as a "swindling". Abtahi,
who was a senior adviser to the former president, Mohammad Khatami, was
arrested yesterday.

- Tehran's governor general Morteza Tamaddon is quoted as saying:
"Seven people were killed and 29 injured during the illegal rally on
Monday."

- Iran's Foreign ministry has summoned European ambassadors to
criticise their "interventionist and impudent" stances on the disputed
election, according to the state news agency ISNA.

- Proxy websites are apparently being cracked down on, meaning people
are using anti-filtering software which not as many people know how to
use.

- The Revolutionary Guard, an elite military force answering to Supreme
Leader, warned bloggers to remove any materials that "create tension"
or face legal action, AP reports.

- The US-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran says
there has been mass arrests of leading reformists including
politicians, intellectuals, activists and journalists.
It is getting reports that in the city of Tabriz more than 100 prominent figures have been arrested.

- Mir Hossein Mousavi's website, Kalemeh, has carried a statement from
him urging relatives of protesters killed or injured in street clashes
to go to attend a peaceful demonstraton tomorrow, which he will lead,
writes Robert Tait.
The venue of the planned demonstration has not been disclosed. But
street demonstrations held to mourn the dead were one of the motors
that gave momentum to the 1979 revolutionary movement.

- The man who was believe to have leaked the election results showing
Ahmadinejad coming third, Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the
security of the IT network in Iran's interior ministry, was killed in
an apparent yesterday in Tehran.

- A key Iranian figure, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has called an emergency meeting of the Assembly of Experts.
The Assembly of Experts appoints the Supreme Leader, and is apparently
the only group who can remove him, some people say this is Rafsanjani's
attempt to exert pressure on Khameni to drop support of Ahmadinejad.

- Robert Fisk reported
that Iranian soldiers kept a group of plainclothes paramilitaries away
from Mousavi supporters, with Mousavi's supporters shouting 'thank you,
thank you' to the soldiers.

- In another sign of the internet crackdown YouTube has announced
that it is getting only a tenth of the traffic it usually gets in Iran
despite being deluged with videos from the country. It also denies
censoring the videos.

- The speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, has ordered an investigation into "unfortunate incidents" at Tehran University when a dormitory was raided by the police, according to Press TV. There is video of the damage caused here.

- Pro-Ahmedinejad photoshopped to make it look bigger.

- Mousavi reportedly urging protesters to wear green during the Friday prayers.

- Several players in Iran's national football team took the field wearing green armbands
- signifying support for Mousavi, who adopted green as his campaign
colour - for the World Cup qualifier against South Korea today