Today, elections are held in Iran to choose its new president after a campaign where the battlefield was the site. To growing, many Iranians in Facebook, have changed their profile pictures to the green, green almost psychedelic. It is the color of Islam, which also has a political compromise in favor of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who now have the support of reformers. This is facing the current president Mahmoud Ahmadineyad, represented by the red color of its militants, although fewer in number but with a similar power to the network. In addition to his personal blog, it has five websites and support the dissemination of videos on YouTube, where does not hesitate to resume its more controversial statements about Israel, highlighting his speech on racism at the UN conference held in Geneva.
The distribution of color, came out of choose the order of candidates speeches TV does for just over a week, the representative of Ahmadineyad extracted the ball from the red and the green ball the representative Mousavi. Since then, the campaign has been impregnated color. On the Internet, the symbolic appropriation by the young has been vigorously with on display photo montages colored green and the girls with their nails painted green and covered with a same color scarf. Accompanied with techno background music very powerful.
All this after a censure by the Iranian authorities, who banned access to Facebook, for reproach for a few days later. According to Iranian news agency IRNA, the ban was "because the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi candidate had been able to use Facebook to increase awareness of the candidate's positions." The reformer candidate had passed the 5000 friends at that time. It also has a profile on Flickr, with nearly a thousand photos that show the fury of the people regarding the elections and another on Twitter.
From this chromatic symbolism, the blue was the color of their supporters to boycott the elections. Remember the war of colors that lived in the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Rose Revolution in Georgia
