The aftermath of Iran's presidential elections

Three weeks after the Iranian presidential elections launched the country into a whirlwind of unrest, where do things stand in Iran?

For starters,there seems to be a major split within Iran's clerical establishment, as reported in the New York Times Sunday.

The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment."

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Thursday: More unrest expected in Iran

As unrest in Iran enters its sixth day following allegations that last week's presidential elections were rigged, and despite the Iranian authorities' efforts to restrict internet access, information has been pouring in from Iranians on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

JPost ran an AP report on how the use of Twitter in Iran is revolutionizing the way information is consumed. There have been many other similar accounts including Andrew Sullivan's The Revolution will be Twittered, the Washington Times' editorial Iran's Twitter Revolution and TechCrunch's Is Twitter the CNN of the New Generation.

Twitterers have largely accused the mainstream media of failing to report what has been happening in Iran since Saturday and so the 'Twitter Revolution' was born.

On Sunday, I ran a blog entry called Iranian reactions from across social media outlets, documenting updates coming in from various blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on events in Iran.

It seems that more and more people have turned to Twitter to get news about Iran and the information available is staggering.

On Wednesday, news services reported that Iran's Revolutionary Guard has issued a statement warning Iranian bloggers and those posting on websites that they must remove materials that "create tension" or face the consequences. Reports of arrests, disappearances and confiscations of computers, laptops and cellphone have been rampant.

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5th day of unrest in Iran

As unrest in Iran enters its fifth day following allegations that last week's presidential elections were rigged, and despite the Iranian authorities' media ban and website blockage, information has been pouring in from Iranians on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

JPost ran an AP report on how the use of Twitter in Iran is revolutionizing the way information is consumed. There have been many other similar accounts including Andrew Sullivan's The Revolution will be Twittered, the Washington Times' editorial Iran's Twitter Revolution and TechCrunch's Is Twitter the CNN of the New Generation.

Twitterers have largely accused the mainstream media of failing to report what has been happening in Iran since Saturday and so the 'Twitter Revolution' was born.