Iran has banned foreign media from reporting on the protests on Tehran's streets against President Ahmedinejad. But that hasn't stopped Americans from discussing the events in Iran on Twitter and Facebook. In fact, the curb on news from Iran seems to have only increased the curiosity of Americans.
New York based filmmaker, Parvez Sharma has not moved away from his computer for the past 4 days. His friends in Iran have been keeping him abreast of the situation on the ground there and he has been talking and blogging about their experiences on various US media.
"Americans are now engaged in a bigger way with the world since President Obama's inauguration. The speech he gave in Cairo has had a tremendous impact. The events in Iran coming as close as they do to that speech in Cairo, I feel Iran has America's attention right now," said Parvez Sharma.
Across America, students have demonstrated to show their solidarity with Iranian opposition protesters.
On Youtube, the video of a young woman, called Neda, her face covered in blood, dying after being shot has been viewed over 200,000 times.
The 24-hour US TV networks are saturated with news on Iran.
Because of the clampdown on journalists in Iran, US networks are relying on internet postings and Twitter messages for information.
So much so that the US State Department asked Twitter, the micro-blogging website, to delay maintenance shutdown to avoid disrupting communications between Iranian protesters.
President Obama has been criticized by Republicans for not coming out and openly supporting those demonstrating in Iran. But it is American technologies such as Facebook and Twitter that have been a huge support to protesters trying to get their message across to each other and the rest of the world.
