A spokesperson for both of these media outlets confirmed their recent need to counteract increased signal jamming by the Iranian government censors since May by adding new uplinks, downlinks, and transmissions.
Iranians have also been able to sign up to receive email notifications about new downloadable software and internet proxies they can use to circumvent the Iranian government censors to access the websites for these networks. The networks claim a “200% growth in use of proxy servers and web censorship circumvention software from the day before the Friday election to three days later.”
Interventionism is a military policy, not a rhetorical one. Via these media outlets, America has already helped to fuel the revolution in Iran. Yet Obama himself seems intent on not adopting any strong, moral leadership position, settling instead on a few select lines expressing the basic idea that killing peaceful demonstrators is unacceptable. Because he wouldn’t want to do anything that might cause the Mullah’s creating all this havoc to become unreasonable, would he? Like maybe rig a Presidential election. The other idea floating about the media in defense of Obama’s silence was that any strong language on Obama’s part might incite the Iranian regime to blame the civil unrest on America. Within days, they did just that – despite any non-action on Obama’s part.
What we’re seeing in Iran is change being affected without a single bullet fired on the part of its leaders. And we’ve seen this before. The Cold War ended and the wall fell largely because oppressed people had enough of their government. This “wall” is a cultural one, between oppressive Islamists and the rest of the world, and every demonstrator in Iran is working at tearing it down.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy obviously understands the cultural nature of this battlefield: He used the Iranian situation to address French Parliament (notable because this hasn’t happened in 136 years) with a barnburner speech about the burka as an instrument for oppression of women, and asking that a parliamentary commission look into banning it altogether.
Meanwhile, Obama is voting “present”.