Saturday, July 11, 2009

Why so little news about Iran?

The news out of Iran has all but dried up. The last posting in Nico Pitman's blog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/iran-uprising-blogging-fr_n_229344.html was at 10:47 ET on Friday. Granted, Huffington Post was moving or rearranging its offices, but New York Times, Tehran Bureau, and BBC had no or little recent coverage.

The only two items I found were "Iran Prepares Plan for Talks with the West", dated July 11 and "Mehdi Karroubi warns of 'unimaginable consequences'", also dated today. The latter was published in Karroubi's newspaper. All other news about Iran since July 10 concerns events outside Iran.

Is the opposition resting after Thursday's demonstrations? Have security forces locked down Iran, including all means of communication?