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MOHAMMAD ASGARI:
http://baarswestside.blogspot.com/2009/06/mohammad-asgari-interior-ministry_22.html
(links to facebook where the alleged pic of asgari can be found)

album:
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1892461&id=732195339&ref=nf#/photo.php?pid=1892461&id=732195339
(must be logged in to see)


another pic from that album:
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1892461&id=732195339#/photo.php?pid=1854515&id=732195339
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the facebook page links to this:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090617/iran-election-results-iranian.htm
Quote:
 
An Iranian man said to have released the genuine result of last Friday's presidential election is reported to have been killed in a suspicious car accident.

Mohammad Asgari, who worked for the Iranian interior ministry to protect the security of its IT network allegedly released results showing that the government used new software to rig the result, reports the Guardian's Saeed Kamali Dehghan, citing unconfirmed reports.


so the source article for the unconfirmed report of asgari's death is the guardian uk:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/17/iran-protests-crackdown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/17/fresh-iran-protests-planned1
Quote:
 
There were also unconfirmed reports that Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran's interior ministry, was killed yesterday in a suspicious car accident in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked evidence that the elections were rigged to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19m votes, and should therefore be president.


i was able to find one (and only one) source that claims the death of asgari to have been confirmed, though obviously they are biased in favor of it being true:
http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com/news.html
Quote:
 
Thursday 18th June 2009
Peaceful protest took place today. Most people wore black.
The people who were killed in the last few days were remembered during the protest
Media coverage was restricted and therefore coverage was minimal.
Confirmation that Mohammad Asgari, head of security of the IT network was killed
It is reported that Mohammad Asgari was first to expose the real election results
Supreme Leader Meets with Representatives of Presidential Candidates.
Hundreds of thousands were on the streets of Tehran.
Mir Hossein Mousavi made an appearance in which he addressed the crowd



to help ascertain how "officially" iranian the above site is:
http://whois.domaintools.com/mir-hosseinmousavi.com

the site was created on 4/8/2009,
ip is in the UK,
domain registered anonymously thru american company.
sorry but not very solid.
so for now this death/murder is still a rumor pending confirmation.




rumor partially disspelled/debunked (the pic at least): regarding that picture from facebook that is allegedly of an IT guy in iran who leaked the election results, i have found that picture actually belongs to a surgeon named Mohammad Asghari:

http://drfmemari.com/about.html
http://drfmemari.com/images/Dr.Asghari.jpg

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دکتر علي محمد اصغري
جراح و متخصص گوش و حلق و بینی

translation:
Dr. Ali Mohammad Asghari
surgeon and ear nose and throat specialist


also, on his own page, dr.asghari:
http://www.dr-asghari.com/
http://www.dr-asghari.com/index-e.htm (cv)


pic of allegedly murdered asghari and dr.asghari compared:
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*as mentioned before, i must warn against falling prey to the various sides trying to manipulate public perception and emotion in this matter. please take everything you hear and read (or see) with a grain of salt, regardless of what it alleges. unfortunately, any real truth will also be suspect and hard to authenticate, and thats exactly the objective of flooding the net with disinfo: make it hard to figure out exactly what the truth is.






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thought this could come in handy:


list of iranian news sites:
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/iran.htm

google (alpha) persian/english translator:
http://translate.google.com/translate_t#fa|en|


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