Here are some tips I posted on Twitter last night, that I was told the Iranian protesters found useful. I do not advocate violence but I do believe in the right of self-defense.

PLANNING AND PREPARATION

Insurgents in many countries have been effective against security forces. Take heart, think before you act, and plan before you start.

Stone throwing does not injure security forces and gives them excuse to retaliate.

There is always a rear to any security forces formation. Much better to locate the rear than to be in front. Think and plan.

Always have two different paths of retreat before confronting security forces. If they are in vehicles, use narrow routes.

Do not make yourself a target by publicly leading. security forces will look for leaders. Make plans before you near security forces.

Your goal is to shape the playing field, control security forces movements and to prevent their activities.

Tipping point will only be reached when Army or security forces side with the protesters. Until then, just blood and tears.

Try to create multiple disturbances to tie up security forces away from main objective. Disarm security forces when poss and hide their weapons.

There are more of you than of security forces. Take shifts if necessary and run them ragged. No sleep. No chance to eat or drink.

Separate security forces from vehicles. Hamper their communications. Distract them with many protests. Do not let them rest.

Sec forces will tend to pause if confronted, so that pause can be used. Flank them, get away or be aggressive.

Tear gas canisters are v hot. Do not pick up. Use stick to bat away.

If security forces rampaging in your neighborhood, shut off all lights. Make it difficult for them to see you.

Sports gear can be used for protection. Any sport where the player wears pads or guards or helmets.

Change clothes often. security forces will be using descriptions to round up protesters. Wigs, hats, eyeglasses, disguises

If you are going hand to hand with Basij, wear clothing you can shed. They grab clothing. You slip out of it and run.

Wear heavy shoes / boots to protect feet in crowds. Steel toed boots are excellent. Wear natural fiber clothes. Nylon can melt to you.

Make shields from wood or metal to protect against batons. Pad the surface your arm touches to prevent force damaging arm.

The key to a successful protest is movement and communication. Keep the security forces off balance. Use hand held radios.

It is possible to run telephone wire house to house where all have common walls, to communicate without being tapped.

Use runners to pass messages between groups. Children 11 or 12 are always running about and not suspected by security forces.

If security forces from out of town, will need to use street signs. Remove signs and house numbers or change them around.

Reminder, security forces need supplies. Take those or destroy them and soon security forces will be on same level as you.

Do you have superglue? cyanoacrylate based fast-acting glues Lots of annoying uses to vex security forces. What can you glue shut?

Security forces need fuel. If you get access, sugar or soap in fuel will wreck their vehicles.

Need to break security forces morale, encourage desertions. If you know someone, call them and ask they stay home.

Find water or sewer shutoff for security forces buildings and turn them off. Cut electric and phone wires, carefully.

Security forces have to eat. Prevent supplies from reaching them, or dose meals with laxatives.

If  Hezbulloh active, ask police to suppress. Foreigners interfering in Iran affairs.  Hezbulloh should be fair game for all Iranians

Keep talking with police, especially commanders. Try to get them to suppress Basij.

False flag operation. Let security forces find fliers saying one thing – you do another. Say you’ll seize airport. Stuff like that

False flag operations. If you have access to military uniforms have them worn in protests to seem like military is supporting the protests.

Watch for their leadership. If you can grab leaders, you cut off the head of the security forces.

Electrical engineer students s/b able to create jammers for security force radios. Use laser pens against helicopters if attacked.

Tracked vehicle vulnerable to jams in tracks. Heavy steel needed. Can paint over ports. If gas tanks on rear, can be ruptured.

Vegetable or cooking oil can be poured on road with a slope to make them slippery.

Park vehicles in front of doors on walk, take keys and flatten tires. Blocks doors.

Make caltrops, out of 3 nails bent together to flatten tires. Wikipedia. Larger and stronger caltrops can disable tracked vehicles. Use paint to cover vehicle windscreens.

Scooters and motorcycles are vulnerable to wire stretched across highway about 1 meter off road. Tie ends to utility poles.

The just completed election for President in Iran involved four candidates. Over 200 originally applied to run, but the vetting process by the mad mullahs reduced that number to four. These were the theologically and politically acceptable candidates. The differences in policy and program were minute and the “moderate” candidate was no friend of the United States or freedom by any definition of the words.

Still, the very rich mullahs of Iran seem to have underestimated the situation. Current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been announced as the winner but the results are so out of variance with the experience of the people that protests have erupted.

This is not the first time there has been rioting and no one should believe that this is a movement that will succeed in the short term. The majority of the protests are centered around universities and neighborhoods where the losing candidates were popular.

There is no sign that the police or security forces are joining the protests. Indeed, they seem just as enthusiastic as ever about breaking heads and arresting protesters. Without the support of the security apparatus, no protest can succeed at this time.

The Internet is enabling the exiled Iranian community world wide to see what is going on in their homeland. It is allowing interested non-Iranians a view into a society most have little comprehension of.

Here are a few sources where you can obtain the latest information:

Twitter hashtag #iranelection

Google RSS feed on Iranian election

Photos:

• Green Wave
• vnnb2′s photostream
• ZhuPix’s Election photos
• Iran Election protest in San Francisco
• Khordad Protests in Iran