It looks like it’s more than just the people of Iran who are up in arms. I’ve been surfing twitter for the past hour and have discovered an interesting mod-mentality trend going on.

It seems that people are actively spreading the word to use a service called pagereboot.com. The service is simple: Supply a url and a timer on which to refresh that url. You leave the service open in your browser and it automatically refreshes that site, thus overwhelming the web server so much that it takes down the site.

The movement on twitter has successfully taken down the official website of Ali Khamenei and the official blog of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It seems like Iran has pissed off a lot of people.

With a service so simple to create and use, and the movement of thousands of people on the internet, Cyber-Warfare is easier to implement and execute than normal previous forms of warfare. What does this mean for the future of the world?

It seems things have now spread to all major cities.  This video is from Esfehan:

Some foreign journalists are being told to leave the country, and many domestic journalists have been arrested.  A dKos diarist claims to have received the “real” election results from an insider in the Interior Ministry:

Unofficial news – reports leaked results from Interior Ministry:
Eligible voters: 49,322,412
Votes cast: 42,026,078
Spoilt votes: 38,716
Mir Hossein Mousavi: 19,075,623
Mehdi Karoubi: 13,387,104
Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad (incumbent): 5,698,417
Mohsen Rezaei (conservative candidate): 3,754,218

If this is true, it would explain the comical rigging of the vote that occurred.  People have said that you can only really swing an election about 5% and keep the appearance of legitimacy.

Some are saying that this may be a secular coup, not necessarily originating from the clerics.

Iran is no longer a theocracy. To blame this on “The Mullahs,” or worse, Iran’s “Right-Wing” is to fundamentally misunderstand what is taking place there. This is a secular power grab done under the guise of Islam and revolution. The perpetrators are the enemies of western rapprochement, and the proponents of economic isolation. The Revolutionary Guards benefit from Iran’s economic isolation, much like the mafia benefited from prohibition and other criminalized behavior. As any stereotypical movie gangster might say, “why ruin a good thing?”

I believe we are witnessing the disposal of Islamic pretense, and in fact a more honest and apparent Iranian police state. How that affects their place in the region and the world is still to be determined.

Time will tell, I guess.

Meanwhile, most of the faculty at Sharif University have resigned in protest.  The scenes portrayed by various videos coming out show some sort of surreal Mad-Max-type landscape, with thugs roaming the streets on motorcycles, beating protesters with batons, and trash cans ablaze.

Gunshots rang out in another video.

Stay strong, people of Iran.  Our hearts are with you.