httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuSeyLjI5Y

If you’re following events in Iran, you know that what may soon be referred to as the Ashura Revolution is underway throughout the country and particularly in Tehran, with crowds of protesters out in the streets daily in numbers that haven’t been seen since June and July.  Young people especially continue to be targeted for beatings, rape and murder by regime thugs, the basij militia.  Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is now openly reviled.  There is talk of a general strike, beginning as early as Monday.  This illegitimate regime may finally be losing its grip.  One telling sign is that the fraudulent “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is nowhere to be seen and is not mentioned even in state media.

The video above features a nightly phenomenon: people at their windows or on their rooftops shouting “Allah akbar” en masse.  Andrew Sullivan calls it the “cry of freedom,” and it is, as Frye would say, as primary as it is primal.  Sullivan’s site is easily the best raw news source anywhere at the moment — his Iranian contacts are pouring in reports hourly, and he’s blogging around the clock on developments.  If you want to know what’s happening in Iran in real time, then Sullivan’s Daily Dish is the place to go.  Be warned, some of the video he posts is disturbing.  As Sullivan himself has put it, this revolution may not be televised, but it will be YouTubed.  Welcome to the new world of New Media.  It’s why CNN is withering on the vine and newspapers are hemorrhaging readers.