The authorities have portrayed the post-election demonstrations, quelled by the Revolutionary Guards and Islamic militiamen, as a Western plot to undermine the Islamic Republic.
Unlike the specific protests that emerged during the Obama Administration, the post-election demonstrations have been directed at the general state of American democracy.
A million and a half protesters took to the streets in Brazil on Sunday in the biggest popular movement since the pro-election demonstrations in 1984.
She took on the case of Zahra Bahrami, a Dutch-Iranian who was arrested for participating in post-election demonstrations in 2009.
At a White House news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Obama was unsparing in his criticism of the Iranian government's handling of the post-election demonstrations.
Morozov cites the Iranian authorities' response the US state department's over-the-top claims about the role of Twitter in the post-election demonstrations as an exemplar.
Here's an example: the European Union withdrew its ambassadors from Honduras after a relatively bloodless coup d'état there this month, but left them in Tehran during the violent crackdown against the post-election demonstrations.
As pro-democracy protests sweep the Arab world, Belarus, Europe's grim, quasi-Soviet redoubt, has taken a turn for the worse since President Alexander Lukashenko violently suppressed post-election demonstrations in December and imprisoned seven of the nine candidates who stood against him.
The charge of Moharebeh was used against numerous protestors arrested during post-election demonstrations of 2009.
