Oh, and the United States and Britain have arrogant leaders and the “media belonging to Zionists, evil media."

In what now appears to be a showdown, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned protesters to stay out of the streets during his prayer day speech in Tehran, Iran. The crowds, decidedly lacking female or youthful faces, occasionally chanted "Death to America."

After days of protests, mass arrests, killings and endless tinkering with several modes of communication, the Theocratic country's "Supreme Leader" seems to believe a long, blathering speech -- invoking the name of God at the rate of about once per sentence -- will calm the crowds and legitimize the also sick-in-the-head Ahmadinejad, calling his approach to foreign and social policy “closer to what it should be.”

Mind you, Ahmadinejad is the guy who denies the Holocaust happened.

A political analyst in Tehran, who spoke to The New York Times on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said, “This will only be a postponement of the inevitable, which is indeed a brutal crackdown.”

“Despite all the diversions, our people are faithful,” he said, but urged young Iranians to lead more spiritual lives. “The youth are confused. Being away from spirituality has caused confusion. They don’t know what to do,” he said.

He accused what he called arrogant Western powers, particularly Britain and the United States, of showing their hostility to the Iranian Islamic revolution in remarks casting doubt on the election. And he warned them not meddle in Iran’s affairs, accusing them of failing to understand the nature of Iranian society.

More from The New York Times.

Further reading: "Shadowy Iranian Vigilantes Vow Bolder Action"

And, of course, the conversation continues on Twitter via the #iranelection and #Gr88 hashtags. Twitter users continue to color their avatars green and change their location and time zone to Tehran, Iran, in an effort to help shield protesters using the online messaging service as an organizational tool.

You do not have to have a Twitter account to view the hashtags.

The protest groups are also active on Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. Wikipedia also hosts a frequently updated time line, for those who want to catch up with the news.

How are the protesters doing it? Secretly, of course. Many are using technology developed in China to circumvent that country's repressive Internet censorship policies.

Able to be carried on thumb drives, the program hides users by constantly changing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, routing users through proxies to servers in China. Once they're done using a computer, a click of a button erases any trace of the user's activities.

Internet users in Western countries are helping by creating proxies, which is a type of server that, such as in this case, can allow users to bypass their home Internet Service Provider (ISP) and connect to the Internet.

All of this makes it very difficult for the Iranian government both to censor the Internet and also to find the protesters who are using it to spread the word about the protests.