As most of you know, Iran has come uncorked in the past few weeks since the presidential election. Protests have marred the top international headlines everyday in protest of President Ahmadinejad's win. Even under pressure from the government to silence the protests which have continued to this day (check BBC). But there was one source of information that Iran could not silence: Twitter.
I will be the first to admit, I loathe those who update their Twitter constantly. I just cannot stand to think about sitting around telling the world what I am doing every second of every day. Life has a tendency to make me wrong lately, and this time Twitter and Iran proved me wrong. Even when the government struck back and arrested hundreds and silenced crowds; the protesters went to Twitter, and it became a live news feed from Iran. The developers of Twitter had routine maintenance scheduled for the middle of day in Iran, but changed it due to the importance of what was occurring.
Just scanning "Iran election" on the Twitter search results, I have 18 new "Tweets" in about 3 minutes, and one (without refreshing to get the new results) reads ""Iran: Release All Those Detained for Peacefully Opposing the Election Results." Please sign this petition and retweet. http://bit.ly/17iqS7"
As you can see even though the government will continue to try and crush protests, the movement will live on through Twitter.
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Anybody who followed this blog for its brief lifetime saw its ups and downs. I AM still currently looking for guest writers if anyone would like to submit an article. The same guidelines apply:
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- C.K.
- Finishing my MA in Geopolitics and Grand Strategy at University of Sussex. Interests: Marxism, Critical Geopolitics, Energy Security, Critical Theory (and those which intersect with IR, particularly critical security analysis), Russian foreign and security policy, Central Asia (particularly Kazakhstan), Caspian Sea politics. Sometimes I enjoy reading a bit about COIN.