· July, 2009

Stories about Iran from July, 2009

Iran:The head of Judiciary targets hostile websites

5 July 2009

According to news sites “the head of Iran's judiciary called on Sunday for the prosecution of people working for increasingly influential anti-establishment satellite TV channels and websites.”

Iran: Myth and reality about Twitter

  4 July 2009

International media coverage of the Iranian protest movement in the past weeks has widely celebrated ‘Twitter power' as a tool of organizing and reporting on protests, but the reliance on Twitter has had both positive and negative results in this crisis. We look at some of them here to demystify the actual degree of impact.

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