The tumult in Iran is huge news of late. As a Baha’i, news of the persecution of Baha’s in Iran has stepped up because of the Internet. Stories crossed the ocean through email. News agencies almost never picked up these stories. As fast as the Iran government could shut down CNN and NYT and BBC reporters, the same government cannot seem to quell dozens who don’t have press credentials or passports to revoke from sharing the message. So the idea of several thousand sharing a similar message evading the same government doesn’t seem all the surprising to me.
[The Iran unrest] is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media. This is it. The big one.
Calling this unrest a revolution seems premature. Still, all this information making it overseas is interesting to watch.
