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Top Iranian leader goes online with Facebook

(Agencies/China Daily) Updated: 2012-12-19 07:56

Khamenei's page believed to be authorized by the ayatollah

Top Iranian leader goes online with Facebook 

Facebook - banned in Iran due to its use by activists to rally government opponents in 2009 - has an unlikely new member: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Launched a few days ago, the Facebook page "Khamenei.ir" displays photographs of the 73-year-old cleric alongside speeches and pronouncements by the man who wields ultimate power in the Islamic republic.

While there are several other Facebook pages already devoted to Khamenei, the new one - whose number of "likes" quadrupled on Monday to more than 1,000 - appeared to be officially authorized, rather than merely the work of admirers. The page has been publicized by a Twitter account of the same name that Iran experts believe is run by Khamenei's office.

Both US-based social media sites are blocked in Iran by a wide-reaching government censor, but they are still commonly used by millions of Iranians who use special software to get around the ban.

In 2009, social media were a vital tool for those Iranians who believed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rigged. Facebook was used to help organize street protests of a scale not seen since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

The protests, which the government said were fueled by Iran's foreign enemies, were eventually stamped out by the security forces, and their political figureheads remain under house arrest.

Khamenei's Facebook page has so far shared a picture of a young Khamenei alongside the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in the early 1960s.

It shares a similar tone, style and content with accounts devoted to disseminating Khamenei's message on Twitter and Instagram and to the website www.khamenei.ir, a sophisticated official website published in 13 languages.

Experts said the social media accounts showed that Iran, despite restricting access to such sites inside the country, was eager to use them to spread its worldview to a global audience.

"Social media gives the regime leadership another medium of communication, one that can share its message with a younger and far more international demographic," said Afshon Ostovar, a Middle East analyst at CNA, a research organization in the US.

Iran is locked in a decadelong dispute with the West over its nuclear program, which the US and its allies suspect is aimed at developing a bomb, something Iran has repeatedly denied. Iran, the West and regional states are also often opposed on issues such as the violence raging in Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Iranian authorities have said they are trying to build a national intranet, something skeptics say is a way to further control Iranians' access to the global web. Teheran tried to block Google's e-mail service this year but soon reopened access.

 

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