Hopefully you've been following the near-revolution in Iran in the past week. As a half-Iranian, the last week's events have personally affected my family. My dad's been trying to call our relatives in Tehran for the past week, but the government cut off extra-national phone communications.
It's almost impossible to know what's happening to my family over there. All of my cousins are part of the more than 70% of the Iranian population that's under 30 of age. They're of the same youth you see in the street demonstrations. And as the Iranian government clamped down on official news coverage of the hundreds of thousands of people protesting in Tehran, the outside world has only been able to get bits and pieces of the struggle through pictures, videos and texts over the Web.
