When I arrived yesterday, my cousins told me about what they considered very back luck--Facebook had been blocked just the day before (not to worry, though, according to my cousin Arash; he has a filter breaker). For some reason, I thought it had been blocked all along, but according to the Financial Times a main reason is the electronic support for the reformist candidate Mousavi. My relatives agree that Ahmadinejad will probably win, but say that there has been a lot of mobilization for Mousavi.
Here's the message I got when trying to access it this morning:
مشترک گرامي
دسترسي به اين سايت امکان پذير نمي باشد
در صورتي که اين سايت به اشتباه فيلتر شده است با پست الکترونيکي
filter@dci.ir
با درج نام دامنه مورد نظر در موضوع نامه و ارايه توضيحات لازم
مکاتبه فرماييد
For those of you who, like me, are a little slow reading Farsi, the message basically says that access to this site is not allowed and to email the adress listed if this is a mistake.
You can read the Financial Times article here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d583c956-488b-11de-8870-00144feabdc0.html
I'm off to take a walk around Tehran with my mom and cousins. Tomorrow, we'll head to Shomal (the north of Iran) for about a week, so it might take a while for me to get pictures and videos up. So far, though, I'm here safe and sound and having a lovely time. Thanks for checking in with me--more to come!
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It would be interesting to see if Facebook can really make a difference during a political campaign. A lot can be said on it, but does it really change people's opinions or get them to the polls?
ReplyDeleteI"m so glad that you're enjoying yourself in Iran and that you're there safely!
ReplyDeleteI will be reading all of your blog entries and commenting, so be ready.
Just imagine how weird facebook will be when you finally get to use it again in August. It's a curse, I tell ya, a curse.