WATCH: How Iranian Bloggers Are Taking On Their Government

Motion design students at the Vancouver Film School created a powerful film about how young Iranians use blogs to voice their opposition to their government. Iranian is the third largest country of bloggers, and blogs provide the young a "safe place to write on forbidden topics from politics to love," the film states.

Watch it here.

Comments

[quizh]

The majority of Iranian "youth" have their heads way up their you-know-what. These kids had a chance to solidify the democratic process from mid 90's up to 2003. What did they do instead? As soon as an iota of freedom was granted when the moderates took over, they threw away the opportunity by expanding on massive illegal party bashes, imbibing on hard liquor, experimenting with drugs, and basically pissing their lives away. Instead of building upon an intellectual foundation to promote democracy and social progressive issues, they substitute this supposed "freedom" that they hadn't had up until a win by moderates with bunch of superficial pleasures while the hard liners, with the help of Bush (long story), managed to lay the ground for their sweeping eradication of the very moderates that had counted on the youth.

[JonSmiley]

Iran has enormous potential. In 10-20 years we'll see it.

[nethinde]

Yes, let's not demonize Iran. They are people, with hopes and feelings, and a nation with a great history.

They had democracy before the shah, but the leader was toppled by the CIA, no wonder there is anger against America there.

Iran has a nuclear programme. A nuclear ENERGY program, so far nothing else, and the accusations for about them developing nuclear weapons comes from Israel. It is hypocracy that Israel, a country with a secret/rogue nuclear WEAPONS program, demands boycotts and what not to punish Iran.

People should see through these things.

Great to hear about the blogging. People getting together like that is a basis of hope!

[notb observer]

I don't know about the "nuclear energy" program. I don't think it's beyond reason to believe that the government has been and continues to develop fissile material for military purposes.
The UN and EU players have repeatedly made offers of peaceful nuclear technology as well as fissile material to the Iranians, in exchange for full disclosure of their nuclear program, but they have consistently refused.
While that in itself does not constitute definitive proof, it certainly raises a lot of questions.
We would all be better off without nuclear weapons at all, and certainly better if they were kept out of the hands of countries with a history of instability, such as Iran, N Korea, Pakistan, India, Syria, etc.
As far as Israel is concerned, they are playing a similar game as the Iranians. Neither confirming nor denying their nuclear capability. I would like for the Israelis finally sign onto the NPT and be held to the same standards we expect of other countries.

[Hawka]

I look at Iran's youth and I can't help but think that at some point they'll be able to get pass their own Bush era someday like we've been able to do now. Almost anyway... Jan 20th can't come here sooner.