فارسی – صفحه نخست BBC

Much (perhaps, too much?) has been made of Twitter’s role in the Iranian protests. But what about the BBC’s Persian-language service? According to an anonymous correspondent for The New Yorker, the channel has been an invaluable source of information, when it’s not being jammed:

In the course of the afternoon, contact gets harder. The cell-phone networks seize up and the Internet performs even more sluggishly than usual, while the government tries to jam all foreign TV stations—in particular, the BBC’s Persian-language channel. This channel, beaming images and reports sent by normal Iranian citizens back into the country, has been hugely influential in spreading news of the protests to Iranians who would otherwise have relied on state television or the inferior American-based Persian-language channels.

Letter From Tehran: With The Marchers (TNY)