Iranian state television says female ninjas suing over alleged defamation

From Press TV:

A group of female Iranian martial artists have taken legal action against Britain’s Reuters news agency for branding them assassins, Press TV reports.

Last month, Reuters showed a number of Iranian girls training martial arts in a city near Tehran, claiming Iran was training more than 3,000 female ninjas to kill any possible foreign invaders. The distorted Reuters report was picked up by other British media outlets.

“At this point, there is not much they can do to undo the damage… That is why we are taking legal action… We want the whole world to know that Reuters has lied about us,” the Iranian ninja added.

[Press TV] Disclosure: This Tumblr users works for Reuters.

President Obama addressed the Iranian people in a special message published on the White House’s YouTube channel on Monday.

“There is no reason for the United States and Iran to be divided from one another,” Obama said. “From Facebook to Twitter…our people use the same tools to talk with one another and enrich our lives.”

Obama then confronted the Iranian government for jamming satellite signals and censoring the Internet.

The video was subtitled in Farsi. [YouTube]

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People are, of course, tweeting about Syria, but interest seems to be more concentrated among activists or Middle East specialists.

The wider social media audience hasn’t engaged in the way it did with Iran and Egypt. As we can see from these estimates below, the volume of Syria-related tweets (as a percentage of overall tweets) appears considerably lower than the volume related to the uprisings in Egypt and Iran.

The estimates were constructed using multiple published Web sources reporting on number of tweets for the observed events as well as total Twitter traffic over time, including Twitter’s blog, Customer Insight Group, Mashable, the Sysomos blog, and a dataset acquired via Twapperkeeper.

The estimates are not precise but should be roughly representative of the average Twitter traffic at the observed time period.

Slate: Social revolution fatigue - why don’t we care about Syria?