Defying threats of arrest or worse, witnesses to protests in Iran are managing to leak reports of violence after the country's disputed presidential elections
The fact that there is so little info coming out of the IRI by IRI reporters, and other agencies that have to give a "balanced" report, means that for the first time ever, the Iranian Bloggers and Twitters are able to take charge of their destiny.
After 30 years of pain, every Iranian is an expert on politics, and are superb at communicating verbally, written and in multimedia, just like all the youth in the world. Social networking has empowered the massive 60% of Iranian population, that are very very young.
To me this is a dream come true. I remember the days when Christiane Amanpour had to seem sympathetic to AhMADinejad; not asking awkward questions, and we all would think that she would put him on the spot, and she wouldn't, because she was worried about being kicked out of Iran.
But now because the social networking site are the only source, the propaGANDa machine of IRI that worked through BBC, AP, is not effective. What IRI should do is to give the foreign press freedom to give a balanced report and make the IRI look good. How ironical is that.
