The role of cyberspace and social media in Iran uprising
The more the uprising flares inside Iran, the more the regime in Iran, like any other bloodthirsty dictator, clutches at oppression.
In its current situation, the regime not only has savagely beaten to death the in the streets but also has extended its suppression to the cyberspace. People use this space to openly express their discontent of the regime. As the regime’s head of the judiciary has recently cited, nowadays, the cyberspace is under the control of the regime’s dissidents.
Ahmad Khatami, from Khamenei’s inner cycle, has described the cyberspace as a “rabid dog”.
MEK\PMOI; the main concern of the regime in cyberspace
Among regime’s ample concerns regarding cyberspace, one should not be negligent of the main threat to the regime’s existence; the bedrock that cyberspace has provided for the people of Iran to link themselves with their organized resistance, especially the MEK; an organization that the regime has tried to annihilate for 40 years, has claimed that there is nothing left of it and thus had disconnected the people from it.
But today, thanks to the cyberspace, people are linked to MEK.
We are witnessing the rise in protests and their rapid radicalization. The regime itself has admitted that only a few minutes after the beginning of each civil rights demonstration, the social slogans change into political ones and lead to the uprising by chanting “down with dictator”. These slogans are promoted among the people by the resistance units and supporters of the MEK.
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