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Tehran protesters take their message into the air

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These balloons carry pro-Mousavi messages thro
in Politics, on the 26th of June 2009
With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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New: That is extremly subtle yet

Submitted by WB on Fri, 26/06/2009 - 13:56.

That is extremly subtle yet highly effective! Are many people resorting to this method? Have there been other subtle ways of protest in Iran?

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With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.
With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.
With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.
With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.
With protests on the street too dangerous due to police and militia crackdowns, opponents of Ahmadinejad have resorted to more subtle ways of dissenting. These 'flight bladders' carry pro-Mousavi messages through the air above Tehran.

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