Once upon time , not too distant, Iran was boiling in the heat of upcoming election. Clips and photos of young, beautiful and hopeful Iranian men and women attending campaign rallies had filled the airwaves and cyberspace. After a long and dreadful thirty years of isolation, demonetization by west, propaganda images aimed at defacing Iranians, finally the true images of a young beautiful country yearning for democracy and freedom was coming out.
People all around the globe were mesmerized by the images, video clip and huge rallies. At the same time something very profound and fundamental was occurring in a cyber community called Iranain.com. Voices were as colorful as the images of Iran. Pro this and against that, shouting literally from top of their lounges in order to have their voice heard from within Iran. Tempers high, patience’s low, debates on the threads were getting more aggressive by days if not by hours. Everyone glued to the monitors, either looking for news from Iran or debating on their ideologies.
Then came the Election Day, and the announcement which for one moment resonated all around the world like a magnitude 8.5 seismic wave. They said Ahmadinejad has won! By an unimaginable land slide. I did not want to believe it, you did not want to believe it. and the charges of huge election fraud took the airways.
Once the initial shock subsided, Iranian.com went through a transformation of a kind which seldom occurs. UNITY, hope of change in Iranian society, as minor as it might have sounded, but change nonetheless. Goal became to expose the fraud, to expose regimes atrocities and brutality in dealing with peaceful demonstrators. For once Iranian.comer spoke with one voice, DOWN WITH IR. Although some exception within the avid supporters of Ahmadinejad, majority of inhabitant of this community, from Monarchists, to communist, to Secularist and even side-liners rose in support of Iranians. An amassing site to witness……
Once upon a time, when the tempers cooled off and hopes of reform faded under the brutality of the regime, Iranian.comers, ever so slowly went back to the old routine. Many threads tried to keep the attention focused on the events in Iran and plight of detainees and prisoners, ever so unsuccessfully.
Today, it so seems that we are back to where we were, before the June election, divided, aggressive and without hope!
