Generation Youtube

Wall Street Journal berättar om Irans ”Youtubegeneration” och om hur ord och bilder som dokumenterar både förtryck och motstånd mot det snabbare sprids ut i världen idag, till exempel via Youtube där ett klipp från universitetet i Shiraz just nu sprids.

On the video, a young man at Shiraz University rises to address the visiting speaker of parliament and former nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani. ”I’m not going to ask you a question because I don’t accept you as the legitimate speaker or the parliament as legitimate,” the student says, citing the elimination of opposition candidates in the previous parliamentary election.

Sitting on stage before a hundred or so students, Mr. Larijani looks taken aback and says nothing. ”Let me tell you what is weighing heavily on my heart,” the student continues. ”I hate three things. One, I hate [President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”