Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:26pm EDT
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election.
Twitter agreed and rescheduled an interruption of service that reportedly would have lasted one hour. Strange, that despite Iran’s alleged blocking of Twitter it’s still going strong. Who is doing the messaging then? The U.S. government, by this very public intervention, has messaged it supports the violent overthrow of the Iranian government. Apparently, when Barack Obama evoked the U.S. overthrow of Mossadegh in his Cairo speech he wasn’t acknowledging a wrong, he was bragging of past accomplishments in anticipation of the “spontaneous” revolution to come.