Jul 05
By Jaap van Till, Netherlands, version: July 4 2009 “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Persian Poet No, they could not twitter Ahmadinejad out of his presidential palace, but the Iranian netizens did surely demonstrate that the internet is mightier than the pen, to paraphrase the famous 1839 sentence of Bulwer. A new and wired middle class is waking up. There are now 34 million women in Iran, of which more than 70 percent is below thirty years of age, who have
