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NPR's Davar Iran Ardalan has received another e-mail from a contact in Iran -- a student who attends Tehran University. It describes a desperate situation for some of those who are protesting last Friday's election results, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in a landslide: "We lost everything on the Internet; they've blocked Yahoo mail and Yahoo messenger and g-mail to us. ... I can hardly come and check Facebook. ... I can't upload my videos that I've been taking for the last 4 days. ... We have very low-speed Internet. ... "We are in a terrible situation ... you have to help us more than just writing and posting pictures! People are being killed every single day. ...