College of Charleston senior Sanaz Arjomand, an Iranian-American, spent this summer in Iran, voting in the recent election. The political science major’s blog was featured on World Focus, a national radio
show, and on the online news source HuffingtonPost.com.

Arjomand, a student in the Honors College, began blogging June 1, 2009 with her arrival in Iran. She tells of voting in the controversial election, the aftermath, even election chants.

She blogs, “Hopefully my green tank top will bring good luck to Mir Hossein Mousavi today as Iran heads to the polls…my Iranian birth certificate is in my purse and I’m ready to cast my vote.”

The next day, Arjomand writes, “This morning at 7:30, when my mom woke me up, my first mumbled sentence was: “Who won?” The reply: “Ahmadinejad.” I spent breakfast listening to my cousins lament and quote the outcomes (what I’ve heard reported here is 64 percent Ahmadinejad, 32 percent Moussavi, 2 percent Rezai, and less than 1 percent Karroubi) and the afternoon listening to the rest of my family
lament the “democracy” in Iran and get angry about the obvious ‘taqqalob,’ or cheating.”

To read more of Arjomand’s blog, log on to: http://asummerundercover.blogspot.com/

Or, find Arjomand’s blog on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/06/15/protests-over-alleged-ele_ws_215827.html

Arjomand’s blog on World Focus: http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/07/02/how-ahmadinejad-supporters-view-irans-upheaval/6119/

Arjomand is now back home in Johns Creek, Georgia.