Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other online tools allowed the world to know what was happening inside Iran more quickly than mainstream media. Indeed, many Twitter users started using green avatars to express their support for the Iranians protesting the allegedly rigged election results.

Now a young Iranian woman, Neda Soltani, whose death was captured on cell phone video footage now spreading across the Internet, has become the face of the protest movement in Iran. Her death has been condemned by US President Barack Obama in what is his strongest statement to date against the violence in Iran.

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