Blogwatch: Internet vs. Iran

National | Blogs (short for web logs, the running commentaries at numerous websites) began the toppling of Trent Lott and Howell Raines; can they turn around Iran? | The Editors

Bloggers last week celebrated news of protests in Iran against that country's extreme theocratic leaders. In response to the news that 250 academics risked imprisonment by asking Ayatollah Khamenei to recant his position that he is God's supreme representative on earth, the influential Glenn Reynolds (instapundit.com) noted, "Iranian faculty are actually doing what some American academics delude themselves into thinking they're doing—standing up for freedom against a fundamentalist dictatorship." Andrew Sullivan (andrew

sullivan.com) on June 17 turned the Iranian struggle into a test of blog power, asking that "On July 9, as many blogs as possible focus on the struggle for freedom in Iran.... Many people have theorized about the power of the web to bring about change ... so let's try and use it."

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