SAIS Review

Cohen, Jared.
Iran's Young Opposition: Youth in Post-Revolutionary Iran
SAIS Review - Volume 26, Number 2, Summer-Fall 2006, pp. 3-16

The Johns Hopkins University Press

In a country of 68 million people, the youth in Iran constitute close to 70 percent of the population. In the absence of a strong opposition, young Iranians are now the de facto opposition in the Islamic Republic. The emergence of new youth networks of communications has allowed young Iranians to circumvent the rules and regulations of the regime by expressing themselves and communicating above the grid through digital, audio, and visual media. This has changed the way they think and created new opportunities to work with the youth of Iran to bring about democracy on their terms.