beautiful shot

agreed.

This is a great picture!

I agree. I'm interested to know more about the story behind it, but no luck so far.

Great shot and enjoyed the photo essay. Thanks for linking it.

Fantastic photos. I sincerely hope these people and their families will survive intact. I live in a place with one of the largest Iranian diasporas outside of Iran and people are not all that hopeful.

We mustn't let this fade from our attention spans.

Wow hope personified. It puts our own troubled relationship with hope in perspective. Thanks again for another quick capture of what is going on over there.

Thank you for the photo and the link. Hope...

stellaa-
Maybe, but on the same token, she is running from tear gas with a smile on her face. If I am ever unfortunate enough to be running from tear gas, my guess is that it will be with shit in my pants. Theirs is a culture of political repression, and what we know has up until now come from a trickle-down media approach that was very much linked to macro-ideals in foreign policy. Twitter, Facebook, etc. offer a new view...one that requires less assumptions about the nature of people we've never met, and probably never will. Through this events, ground-level Iranians are learning that Americans are not Satan. We are learning similar lessons about Iranians.

I'd agree that they have bigger fish to fry (survival, etc.), but in the digital space, Americans (& everyone else) are with them. Surely they recognize the solidarity because it's them who are sending media to us, and us who are spreading it throughout. Collaboration is learning.

So many of the educated classes are in North America. There is nothing they don't know about Iran.

The Iranian educated classes? Or the American ones?

re: the Iranian educated
I read an interesting Op-Ed a while back by (I think) Thomas Friedman who wrote about how the educated in Iran are so underemployed that it was no uncommon to find taxi drivers with advanced degrees. Regrettably, we seem to be careening toward something similar in this country.

"No jobs, no prospects, no assets, no liberties -- a lot of Iranians have nothing left to give and everything to gain from protesting. If little else, it no doubt feels incredibly satisfying to be able to publicly display discontent and opposition against a government that for many has made a prison of their lives." -Shirin Sadeghi

I like the picture. If the girl helps to break down the stereotype of the bearded robed monster wanting to blow the infidels to smithereens, and so to make Americans realize that they are very much alike, with the same basic aspirations, then we can begin to break the walls that divide us.

re: Newton
Agreed.

She is clearly quite beautiful, as are many on the site you referenced. Certainly not the stereotypical "chest beating" fanatic so often portrayed in our media.

All one can do is hope that pictures such as this endure, when the time comes to inflict war on these people.

I further hope, I am just a pessimist and not a realist..