Iran becoming social ..?

At the risk of getting too political, this story is just too important to leave unmentioned. It has been the case for several years now that Iran has been a source of concern for the world at large under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was for so long a country shut off and secretive to the outside world and notably missing from the social media age. Currently, even under new President Hassan Rouhani, social media giant Facebook is still blocked from the populous of Iran but there are rumblings that this could soon change.

Apparently, even though Facebook is still banned from Iran’s internet services, there has been a recent influx of top ranking Iranian cabinet members to the site. Around 15 ministers have recently opened Facebook accounts as has in fact the President himself following his recent election victory and inauguration. The pages of these ministers can be viewed via the people of Iran via what is know as Proxy servers which are technically illegal in the country. Newspapers and the world at large are seeing this seemingly small move as a sign that the long closed of country of Iran is about to open up. This could create a great sigh of relief considering the nuclear posturing that became so much a way of life under Ahmadinejad.

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