N00dz are being coordinated at the growing Support Golshifteh Facebook page, formed “to say NO to religion, tradition, culture and anti women’s law. Viva freedom !!!”

Notably, the actress is the only one to nip-slip in the ad campaign against Iran’s restrictive policies against women. If you watch carefully (below). Consider it… a punctuation.

Firouz has lodged one final application. If rejected and sent back to Tehran, her “unrepentant homosexuality” and participation in criticism of an ultra-conservative regime could end in a public hanging.

Iranian law defines lesbian acts as female non-relatives “standing naked under one cover without necessity,” whether or not you believe in the God that hates you. Getting caught is punishable by 100 lashes. Repeated offenders are executed.

Cul-de-Sac film features explicit lesbianism and metatextually reflects Firouz’s situation, but hopefully, the actress won’t be sent back to Tehran like her character. The UK-produced picture premieres in London tonight and Firouz will attend the premiere.

You can help Karina Firouz by sending protest e-mails to British Home Office (public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk) and demanding her refugee status. |Times Online, Coilhouse|

Unless you were living under the proverbial rock over the summer, you saw the 40-second video of Iranian student Neda Aghan-Soltan’s death during the uprising in that country after an obviously-rigged national election. The person who captured the video remains anonymous, probably because they fear extreme retribution from the Iranian government for sharing it with the world, but now that person has been awarded one of journalism’s highest honors for capturing the grainy footage on a cell phone.

Yes, the endlessly disturbing Neda video has been awarded a Polk award, the first time such an award has been bestowed on an unknown person. Reports the Chicago Sun-Times:

The curator of the awards, John Darnton, said in a statement that the footage from Iran, while anonymously recorded and distributed, had been seen by millions of people and had become “an iconic image of the Iranian resistance.”

“This award celebrates the fact that, in today’s world, a brave bystander with a cell phone camera can use video-sharing and social networking sites to deliver news,” he said.

The video of the death of music student Neda Agha-Soltan, shot during protests of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election, made her name a rallying cry for the opposition and sparked international outrage at the harsh response of security forces.

The hardass Islamic conservatives running Iran’s government are moving towards making it illegal for men and women to congregate in public. That’ll go over well. |Jpost|

The Iranian government continued its violent crackdown on opposition protests over the weekend, leading the White House to issue a stern “You better cut that out!” memo. Some protesters, however, fought back by beating down Iranian security forces with night sticks of their own. |Yahoo/AP Photo|

Anyone who uses Twitter can probably testify that the site was acting much weirder than usual yesterday. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Twitter, one of the world’s most trafficked websites, had been hacked by a group calling themselves the “Iranian Cyber Army.”

Last night Twitter users were greeted by the image above when they visited the site and then were re-directed to a page displaying the following message:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

Twitter’s founders sort of blew off the whole thing on their blog last night, but this can’t be good, regardless of whether or not the hack job was carried out by real Iranian cyber-militants or a group of teenage pranksters. Just like our multi-million dollar predator drones being hacked with cheap software, an incident like this demonstrates how easy it would be for a small determined and savvy group to bring a mighty nation essentially run on computers to its knees. Kinda scary, no?

Iranian artists have been blocked from shipping work for exhibition in the United States because the paintings contain the color green, according to the LA Times. “From the Streets of Iran” will still open tonight at Los Angeles’ Crewest Gallery, only without some of the emerald-colored urban art that Iranian postal inspectors decided was unsuitable to send. Worn by Mousavi supporters prior to the election, the color green has become a Twitter meme as well as a protest symbol against purported voting fraud. However, the color censorship has only strengthened the organizer’s resolve to go on with the show, still featuring some blatantly revolutionary themes that the censors failed to catch.

Images via Crewest

Although the media has mostly overblown the role that Twitter has played in the uprisings surrounding the Iranian elections with most people on the ground are still relying on SMS texts and good ol’ word of mouth, there’s no denying the impact its had on the micro-blogging community. From rappers to porn stars and celebrities, everyone’s getting in on the revolutionary action. And now with this Twitter application that automatically adds a green overlay to avatars, armchair activism has never been so convenient. ANIMAL decided to take a look at the eclectic mix of personalities who’ve gone green for the cause, see some of them below.

Activist actress and heartthrob: Alyssa Milano

Coward and pseudo political pundit: Meghan McCain

Caricature rapper: MC Hammer

Unfunny comedian and nerd: John Hodgman

Political pundit and shell of a man: Joe Scarborough

Daily Show correspondent: Rob Riggle

Celebrity Puppet: Insult the Comic Dog

Infamous anti-war protester and actress: ‘Hanoi’ Jane Fonda

Formerly relevant actor : John Larroquette

Celebrity for no reason: Nicole Ritchie

Superthug and rapper: N.O.R.E.

Attack of the Show host: Olivia Munn

Roots drummer and Twitter emeritus: ?uestlove

Porn empress: Joanna Angel

The revolution will be marginalized. While the concept of dissidents in Iran tweeting news and using the internet as a lifeline is endearing, there’s also those who are exploiting it for truly noble purposes.