Iranian blogs take on the election
Mehdi Jami (BBCPersian.com) writes for The BBC:
The Persian blogland is less than four years old, and so Friday's presidential election is the first of its kind in the post-weblog world.
Iranian weblogs, one of the largest web communities in the world, owe their significance to the welcome they have received from middle-class Iranians inside and outside the country.
Thousands of voices not heard via Iranian state-owned media can now express their views through the internet.
During the past weeks, the Iranian urban middle-class has published a huge amount of articles on weblogs about its preoccupation with the presidential election. They have left no stream of thought unrepresented.
These discussions are invariably about one of two topics: Boycotting the election or voting for three of the candidates - former police chief Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, former science minister Mostafa Moin or former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The other candidates are not talked about as such on the weblogs.
posted by Fergie @ 6/17/2005 09:02:00 AM
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