International diplomacy by YouTube: Obama messages Iran
March 20th, 2009 by Daniel Young | Filed under Politics, Social media.Barrack Obama today issued a 3 and a half minute message to the ‘people and leaders of the Islamic republic of Iran’ via YouTube on the occasion of the Nowruz holiday – a national holiday in Iran with no particular religous significance. The video was issued to a number of news outlets in the region and included Farsi subtitles.
This represents a step change in US/ Iran relations and is a natural extension of the use of social media by the Obama team. This is sure to stimulate a lot of online activity and no doubt cynicism but I find it very exciting that the US Administration is proactively and publicly reaching out to nations that have previously been positioned by the US Government as ‘evil’ with a constructive message of reconcilliation and hope.
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