If you need a proof that Iranian youngsters don't have any interest in politics, you must see this stats report for the most popular Iranian websites.
You see that a website called Jeegar is on the top with over 100,000 visitors everyday. It's content: links to mainly soft porn material on the Net. The next website is Gooya, a simple but old and lucky directory of popular Iranian websites; next is Baztab, a political news website close to the center of the right; then is Dalghak, an entertainment portal without any particular content; and Gooya News is next which is the most popular news site close to the reformists and the left in general, with only 30,000 visitors.
I noticed the huge impact of Jeegar.com when I discovered the hugest hike in my visitors ever as a result of a link on Jeegar to a post in my weblog about board games; over 4,000 visitors had come to my blog by a single link from Jeegar in two days and they keep coming.
Looking at the details of Jeegar.com's stats report, there is no doubt in my mind that what the young Iranian wants is not necessarily an open, transparent government. They need to have fun like all other people in their age group in the World. Although you sometimes do not know what exactly should come first: the democratic and secular government, or social freedoms.
I guess new conservatives are getting ready to ease the lives of young people as soon as they capture the parliament and the government. I don't really like the conservatives, even the younger ones; but I believe that after a few years of reform process which has actually been effective in many ways, there is need to cross some of the borders; and it's only conservatives that can do that. Did you see how quickly and easy they accepted the change of a controversial street name in Tehran?
