I know it doesn’t make much difference exactly where they were. “Tehran” is really all the info a casual consumer of news like me needs, especiallys since I’m buried deep in the American midwest and the odds of my actually going to Tehran are even lower than the odds that Glenn Reynolds or Michelle Malkin or Ed Morrissey will link to this post.
At least, I hope they’re lower than that.
But still, I’m curious, and I have access to the internet. The story:
TEHRAN, Iran – Hundreds of thousands of protesters wearing black and carrying candles filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran’s disputed election.
…Many in the huge crowd carried black candles and lit them as night fell. Others wore green wristbands and carried flowers in mourning as they filed into Imam Khomeini Square, a large plaza in the heart of the capital named for the founder of the Islamic Revolution, witnesses said.
Well where the hell is that? Is it the big gray part here?
If so, that’s pretty convenient. There’s two airports right nearby:
You could probably get a cab. Or even just walk.
Of course I’m not actually going to go. I just think it would be interesting to be able to place these things on a map. We’ve all got this stuff right at our fingertips, after all. And the #iranelection thing at Twitter isn’t actually that much help in tracking such details down.
Here, play with the map yourself: