by Jeff Severns Guntzel

1. Provide Cover: If you are Twittering about events in Iran from outside Iran, you have the luxury of not worrying about that knock on the door. Not so for Iranians. There is a movement afoot to provide cover for Iranian cyber-dissent by changing your Twitter profile to match the time zone and location of the Iranians brave enough to tweet the updates and calls to action. To do this, simply open the settings page and select "GMT+03:30 Tehran" and change your location to Tehran, Iran.

2. Change Your Facebook Picture: We did! It's a small thing, but a show of support on Facebook is something Iranians can see, so long as the government doesn't shut down the internet completely.

3. Spread the Stories: Iran is a deeply misunderstood place. Stereotypes abound and are typified by the front page of today's New York Post, which featured a photo from the protests and the headline: TURBAN WARFARE. Powerful narratives are emerging from inside Iran. Put them in your Twitter feed, on your Facebook page, on your blog, or send them out via email. The best place to find these narratives is over at Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic blog The Daily Dish or through a Twitter search for tweets about Iran.

Please pass the content around to as many people as you can, but remove e-mail addresses before forwarding to others...

A new Facebook group called Alive in Tehran has just been started that allows getting info out of Iran in multiple easy ways. You don't need to have access to Facebook to do this. Just e-mail or phone:
- Blog via e-mail
- Make Audio Reports by Phone

Instructions for Blog via e-mail

Attention Iranians,

You can now blog to http://aliveintehran.org simply by sending an email to aliveintehranpost at gmail.com. Soon this will be automated, but for now we will be reposting your stories manually.

Please feel free to send any stories of YOUR OWN experiences via this email, DO NOT spread rumors or write about things YOU HAVE NOT SEEN.

Instructions for Audio Reports by Phone

If you are in Iran, call this number to make an audio report that we will distribute to the world, 646.462.4201.
The voicemail password is 77075. Record your message, hang up, and an audio file will be created. For your security we recommend that you call via Skype or with a dedicated sim card that you only use for this purpose and remove immediately afterwards.

Please decide what you want to say before you call, keep it short even 1-2 minutes will be great, just give us an idea of what you have been experiencing in Iran.

Consider the format: Hello, I am calling from ____ Iran to tell you what I have been seeing recently. I have seen ______ . Thank you very much for listening and stay tuned for more, we are still Alive in Tehran.

Do not spread rumors—only speak about the things YOU HAVE SEEN.