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Via Brisbane Times
June 22, 2009
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said people have the right to protest against lies and fraud, according to a statement released on Sunday on the website of his newspaper Kalameh.
"I as one of the mourners (of the Saturday killings) invite my dear people to self-restraint. The nation belongs to you," Mousavi said.
"The revolution is your legacy. To protest against lies and fraud is your right. Be hopeful that you will get your right and do not allow others who want to provoke your anger… to prevail," the presidential candidate said.
He made his statement in the wake of state television reports that at least 10 people were killed on Saturday amid street protests against the declared results of the June 12 presidential election.
Mousavi, shown by official results to have trailed 11 million votes behind incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, added: "In your protests keep on refraining from violence."
He also called on police and the military "not to act in such a way" as to cause "irreparable" harm to relations with ordinary people.
"Withholding information over the names and addresses of the martyrs and wounded from their families and keeping them wondering will not help restore calmness and will only keep the emotions hurt," he said.
Google Adds Persian Translation Service
Tokyo – As the Internet becomes a more important path for information between Iran and the rest of the world, Google has added support for Persian to its Google Translate service.
Google didn’t specifically tie the release of the service to the post-election protests that are currently gripping Iran but noted on a company blog that the release is "particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran."
Social media has proved key in helping people communicate and get around government censorship and Google noted the service could be used to translate "Persian into English and from English into Persian—whether it’s a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or a Facebook message."
The Internet has grown in importance in recent days after foreign journalists in Tehran to cover the election were ordered home as their visas expired and those remaining were told they could only report from their offices.
"As with all machine translation, it’s not perfect yet. And we’re launching this service quickly, so it may perform slowly at times. We’ll keep a close watch and if it breaks, we’ll restore service as quickly as we can,"
For now the service is tuned to work between Persian and English but Google said it is working to improve accuracy with the other 40 languages supported by the Google Translate service.
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