Nuclear Iran?

           Yes, Iranians should be able to benefit from national nuclear advancement programs.  However, at this time the risk is just too high for other countries to chance more chaos of a nuclear scale to penetrate the Middle East.  Especially in a country where the majority realizes its own inability to fairly choose their government.  Iranians are a far cry from their ideal capability to control their own nation's government programs.  Therefore, Iranian youth and citizens themselves should be the first ones "to say that we can't."  
          More easily said that experienced, I know.  In an ideal world countries would happily grant Iran global privileges, and in an ideal world either every country or no country would possess nuclear weapons.  But this does not prove Iran's incapability to continue it's uranium enrichment programs--it only proves the difficulty in negotiations and reaching acceptable compromise.  
          The current Iranian policy wishes not to cooperate with the Western world, nor does it promote negotiations, placing all other countries of power and influence or those countries threatened under decisively defensive behavior.  Iranian officials and people alike simply cannot expect warmer reactions to incredibly dangerous actions.

Iran's New Cyber Army

           I have no doubt that Iran's youth will be resilient to the Iranian government's recent actions to further restrict social interactions through the internet.  They have already proven the great lengths to which they will go in order to exercise passive resistance, and these new restrictions will only serve to further fuel the youths' sense of social injustices and their retaliation.  It would be virtually impossible for the Iranian government to stay technologically advanced enough to prevent most internet access to the youth for any length of time.  However, the decisions and funds facilitating this government actions prove an economical step in the wrong direction.  It makes me question whether or not Iran would financially survive without the black market (sorry, that has a lot of bias.  I'm trying!).  Either way, Iranian youth will continue their social communications with each other and the outside world for as long as they have access to computers.  The most effective actions the regime could make against this would probably be to wipe out the internet cafes. 
          As long as the voices of Iranian youth can be heard throughout the world and within Iran's cyber network there will be hope for change in Iranian policy and perspective.  Even if the Iranian youths' views are not readily accepted by the powers in Iran, eventual change is inevitable as the youth will surely outlive those powers.  Granted that no one wants to live half of their life under oppression and restriction, the youth seek to bring about that change as soon as possible and without violence.  The internet is the best communication network available to orchestrate mass peaceful protest and plan group action with the fewest hindrances.  Global connections will also help the Iranian youth to gain perspective and know the best course of action once a revolution takes place.  One revolution already had a poor outcome because of this lack of foresight--hopefully the new use of cyber networking will prevent a repetition in history. 
          With the Iranian regime's new "cyber army" in mind, I am forced to realize the great internet priviledges that I previously took for granted.  Obviously freedom in using the internet has its social drawbacks--porn, bullying, harassment, identity theft, and other crimes--but these are more than compensated for by the positive aspects that we experience on a day-to-day basis.  Knowing the political capabilities that the internet provides to Iranian youth, I now view the internet a tool with great potential rather than another electronic waste of time.  If United States youth possessed the same political drive that the Iranian youth do, just think of the great changes that we could bring to our own faulty politics.