Country ... Iran
Letters from Iran ... about Green Revolution

Special programme ... Letters from Iran ... AJE examines the aftermath of Iran's Green Revolution and finds an opposition that remains eager for change.

COMMENTARY
When I am with people in the USA, I often am tempted to say they do not know what 'freedom' is, and they do not value freedom enough. Most Americans who have never left the country have no idea what happens when freedom is repressed and the authorities are able to ride roughshod over anyone and everyone.

My wife and I have had friends from Iran since student days ... a long time ago ... and it is sad to see the way in which the people of Iran have been and are being repressed. Thank you for this film ... and let us not forget that the bigger issue in Iran is the repression of people and not the ownership (or not) of a nuclear weapons program
Peter Burgess

Special programme Letters from Iran We examine the aftermath of Iran's Green Revolution and find an opposition that remains eager for change.

While winds of change have been blowing through the Arab world this year, Iranians have been forced to wait for political reform.

In 2009, in the aftermath of an election that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad controversially returned to power as president of the Islamic Republic, millions took to the streets of Tehran to protest against the result. But the demonstrations were brutally repressed and the hopes of the 'green revolutionaries' were dashed.

Since then Iran has closed itself off to international media scrutiny and it has been difficult to determine exactly what happened to the many thousands of dissidents arrested and imprisoned during the protests, or the current scale of political opposition to the regime.

Yet as this film reveals, that opposition is still alive and kicking and just as eager for change as before. Letters from Iran paints a fascinating portrait of the aftermath of the Green Revolution and a country holding its breath.