We all are aware of current situation in Iran. I am in no position to confirm if voting was rigged or not, but public uprising there seems definitely genuine. The United States of America is paying a very close attention to the situation in Iran, and has been the headline for a week now in American cable news. Iran holds key to Middle East peace process, safety of American soldiers in neighboring Iraq, nuclear proliferation issues etc; so the interest on Iran is immense.
Couple of days ago I was watching PBS news on Iran, like on most of other cable news the talks were centered around how the use of social networking (Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, etc) has kept the momentum of protest in Iran, despite the governments clamp down on the conventional media and communication systems. Iran has applied Internet filter to stop these social networking sites, but the work around using the third party application makes harder for government to filter everything.
So the host of news asked an expert guest if a country can shut down the whole Internet system. The guest replied that it would involve a big political ramification to completely shut down the Internet system, ultimately giving an impression to the world that the election was rigged. So it’s unlikely that Iran would do that now, but it’s been done twice in past elsewhere. To quote that expert guest, one was in Myanmar and the other was in Nepal 
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Sarash,
Thanks for the edit, and please excuse my grammatical ignorance
I have updated it.
It doesn’t really matter if it was rigged or not. There’s no way to really know how the whole thing went. And the uprising might be just caused by the citizens whose candidate lost.
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Some time passed and situation in Iran is still very unstable. I’m glad that people finally showed their power and are trying to change their twisted reality. But the government is not about to give up and I think that many years will pass until they will gain their freedom. Good thing is that world is not about to forget the sacrifices. Two weeks ago I attended at U2 concert and even those guys showed some pictures of Iranian riots on their huge 360 degrees screen. Good thing that people still talk about it and Iranian people are not alone. Pity that we have still not so many ways of contacting them.