All the lonely people

At this point in time, I have very little comment on the situation. I’ve been participating in the twitter-revolution that is assisting ordinary Iranians to get the word out and confuse the authorities, so they can organise their protests.

Instead of trying to interpret what is going on through an ignorant prism, I can say that a people who are no longer willing to put up with a regime that oppresses them and is ready to overthrow it via civil disobedience deserves to choose self-determination in whatever form they want it to take.

The funniest thing is that I stumbled on these amazing sources of information that up to a week ago were being ignored by the mainstream media, except for The Economist, which seems to have someone employed full time to keep an eye on Twitter. Go the Economist! Because reportage is now in the hands of the people. The journalist I befriended and followed on twitter became real to me through his blog posts, his articles on SF Gate Chronicle and he introduced me to Tehran Bureau.

I think the only honourable thing to do at this point is to ask readers to look at the Tehran Bureau on the web. It will illuminate the opinionated and explain why an intelligent and informed man such as Barack Obama is being very careful about his comments on the situation.