The situation in Iran is getting complicated day by day thanks to riots and demonstrations taking place in Teheran and other cities, despite police attempts to end with them and efforts to control information of the regime of Ayatollahs. This situation makes threatens to plunge the country into an international crisis that ends in a bloodbath, and by extension increase the already high international tension with the U.S. Iran's nuclear program.
Mousavi surrounded by his followers ( Obtained from El País 16/06/2009 )
The protests erupted just know the "suspects" election results presidential Friday 12 June, where he declared victory of the populist Ahmadinejad in the first round (with over 62% of the vote) and as a result supporters of reformist candidate Mousavi have taken to the streets starring in your own pictures 30 years ago when it emerged the Islamic Revolution in 1979 that toppled Shah Reza Pahlevi and allowed the rise to power ultra-conservative clerics, led by Ayatollah Khomeini , true builder targeting Islamist regime that still exists Shiite Iran.
Clashes in Tehran ( Obtained from El País 16/06/2009 )
The government of President Ahmadinejad tries to contain the monent demonstrations without resort to the militia of the Revolutionary Guards and the army, relying basically in the police action and trying to control the flow information to the Iranians that they can access (control television and most newspapers). So for example, have restricted access to the Internet, SMS and the signals from the satellite television channels also have expelled most foreign news correspondents, and so on.
Video on the expulsion of correspondents from Iran TVE
However, Mousavi supporters are using a resource at their disposal, as mobile and SMS are controlled: social networks are especially well-known twitter , to call demonstrations and organize, avoiding repression and government control. It seems that this movement of popular protest is not going to settle for a recount of votes, but the Iranian urban youth calls for a new more open society and a brighter future.
An example of these objectives, we consult on the interview that the country has made a Marjane Satrapi, the author of the famous comic and film Persepolis , where from the perspective of a child are the changes that produced the Islamic Revolution in Iran the 80, especially for women, fierce criticism of religious intolerance and cultural isolation . Just what you're fighting against young people who manifest these days in Iran.