Iran and Technology

Undoubtedly the key players inciting, chanelling, and prolonging recent demonstrations in Iran have to be Facebook, Twitter, and text messages. Those three media have effectively initiated, harnassed, implemented, and monitored the various human processions that have erupted all throughout Iran. 

The government has belatedly banned foreign journalists to film demonstrations. The Iranian youth, deft in modern technology, are taking grainy and blurry shots of violence perpetuated by the secret police against them with their cell phones and disseminating through the internet. 

All international news agencies are urging Iranians to post videos, audios, and even to speak on air of the scenes they have witnessed. 

It must definitely be heady times in Iran right now. You can quickly spot young children among the millions of crowds roaming on the street shouting slogans, carrying banners, or remaining silent in mourning of the recent deceased. You can the sense that this is a revolution sprang from the under belly of the disenfranchised and disaffected youth who have been nurtured by progressive technology and western idealogies of freedom of speech. 

Even if Ahmedinajad is declared the actual winner of the election, the Iranian populace has achieved their goal. Governments only exists though the power of the people. The Iranian populace who had once overthrown the Shah on grounds of ineffectiveness and corruption has raised their voices against a government who has long ceased to cater to their needs. It is high time the Supreme Leader realizes the precarious ledge he is on.