In their paper, Iran's reformists and activists: Internet exploiters, Babak Rahimi and Elham Gheytanchi wrote: The impact of the Internet on Iranian politics resembles the introduction of earlier information technologies, such as the telegraph in the late nineteenth century and the cassette tapes in the 1970s, which also created new individual and social spaces for dissent.
Babak Rahimi и Elham Gheytanchi в своей работе под названием "Реформисты и активисты Ирана: эксплуататоры Интернета" написали: