http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/15/iran.protests/index.html?hpt=T1#
I was reading this article today on cnn.com where I recognized the role of YouTube in importing chaos across borders. In the article, it was mentioned that videos “showed throngs of demonstrators marching, burning posters of Ayatollah Ali [Khomeini] and in one instance beating a man who appeared to try to remove a poster from the hands of protesters.” These kinds of videos can be exchanged from phone to phone without the use of the internet, by Bluetooth for instance. So people within Iran know what is happening, and the videos can escape Iran to inform the world. Other videos “showed police in riot gear pursuing dozens of people running away from the baton-wielding officers,” and “similar protests going on in other cities in Iran such as Shiraz and Isfahan.”
I was reading this article today on cnn.com where I recognized the role of YouTube in importing chaos across borders. In the article, it was mentioned that videos “showed throngs of demonstrators marching, burning posters of Ayatollah Ali [Khomeini] and in one instance beating a man who appeared to try to remove a poster from the hands of protesters.” These kinds of videos can be exchanged from phone to phone without the use of the internet, by Bluetooth for instance. So people within Iran know what is happening, and the videos can escape Iran to inform the world. Other videos “showed police in riot gear pursuing dozens of people running away from the baton-wielding officers,” and “similar protests going on in other cities in Iran such as Shiraz and Isfahan.”
But the interesting part is that the protests in Iran probably started (in my mind there is no question) because of the riots in Tunisia, successfully overthrowing Ben-Ali, which triggered the protests in Egypt to get rid of Mubarak. Now that protests erupted in Iran, regardless of the actual outcome or scope of these protests, I am left wondering which country is next…
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