My friend, Ana Sami, wrote a piece for Al Arabiyah prior to the Iranian elections, discussing the role of the youth there.  Given that university students have been both the focus of government attacks, and the main, on-the-street, Twitter-assisted organizers of the stree protests, I thought it was worth highlighting this paragraph:

A noteworthy implication of Iran’s youthful population includes timing. Currently, Iran’s population while now old enough to understand and participate in politics, cannot be held accountable or claim loyalty to a government they never chose. While their parents’ generation cannot be held fully responsible for what was to become of the revolution, they can at a minimum claim political participation and activism to change a way of life they knew and rebelled against.

The bold reactions and content of criticism surrounding the candidates from within Iran’s youthful population is striking considering previous protests and the consequences that followed.

Read the whole thing here.