WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Iranian-American community of the world is half of the turmoil in Iran, but they are tuning in, logging, and even step in the demonstration to show solidarity with the families and friends. Iran with the United States show the root of their interest in the election by voting Friday in more than three dozen polling places from Washington to Los Angeles.
And now the post-election turmoil has ratcheted up interest rates higher than ever.
"The Iranian-American community is hungry for all news and information that came from Iran," Afshin Molavi to CNN on Tuesday in a telephone interview. Molavi was born in Iran but grew up in the West. He is affiliated with the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, and has been a frequent commentator on events in Iran.
He said Iranian-American community in the United States has the power by the events. Video Watch protesters outside U.N. »
"We actually see the excitement," Molavi said in a telephone interview. "Not since 1997 have we started this." That is when the reformer Mohammad Khatami elected president.
Iran-United States, and check newspapers cable news outlets, but also switch to the YouTube and social networking sites such as Facebook.
"They will be CNN's first in line. But they will spend hours in front of the computer searching for YouTube, Facebook and twitter," Molavi said. "YouTube is easier to process. This is just raw video that is on the streets of Iran." He said Iran-United States is carefully following the protest does not occur only in Tehran but also in cities other Iran.
Molavi video calls that a "cyber-space-space echo" with the forwarding and send the other snippet favorite video. Games make one lap - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSECAvBTanQ - appear to show large crowd of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi's supporters in March. Then burn injuries to the police motorcycle on the streets and show the crowd the police fall, offered him water. Molavi says that is good because it is a dramatic slice of life and therefore shows the Iranians feel kinship even for those who tried to stop the demonstration.
Excitement and disappointment in some Iranians in the United States has protested them in a few days in Los Angeles and outside the Iranian Interests Section in Washington. The office, technically, part of the Embassy of Pakistan, to act as official representatives of the Iranian government in the absence of diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran, which severed after the hostage crisis in 1979. Video Watch how Iran is a blogger averting Web filters »
Each United States has been trying to maximize communication with Iran, even before the election.
MetroStar Systems, a New Jersey company, recently launched its own Facebook application, called Voices Iran, to accelerate the flow of information and political debate. The Company has performed work in the past and for the State Department to develop a mobile game called X-life. But Iran says MetroStar Voices made fully independent from the United States government.
MetroStar's CEO is Ali Reza Manouchehri, an Iranian-American who went to high school in Iran.
"My identity is Iranian-American, and my passion is cyberspace and democracy," said Manouchehri in an e-mail to CNN. "Utilizing tools like twitter, Facebook and other social media applications that provide unmatched forum for maintaining the self-Iran and the United States directly involved in real-time during this unprecedented event is unfolding in the field."
Site - apps.facebook.com in / iranvoices / primary - has been communication from the people in Iran and the United States, through twitter and other sources. And sites such as Iran's Voices has become more important as the Iranian government has been trying to stifle communication between Iran and the outside world.
U.S. government sticking carefully to the audience in uproar over Iran's elections. But one pioneer of the Iran-United States, the United States taxpayer-funded Voice of America, has been beefing up its operations and improve the television to Iran. VOA's Persian News Service - online at http://www.voanews.com/Persian/ - has been expanding daily broadcast in Farsi, and only introduce new morning program.
He said he was "flooded" by the thousands of videos, images, e-mail and calls from Iran in the pass along with the audience. VOA has additional satellite channels before the election the government to limit congestion, according to one executive VOA.
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