I'd assume they don't like getting shot. A lot of Iranians have left the country especially in the past three years.

I recently met a Jewish Iranian couple, who left Iran 10 days after their wedding, because the Iranian government confiscated their property claiming they are funding the Israeli government. They told me their neighbourhood has mostly been emptied of it's previous upper class (Muslim and Jewish) occupants in the past three years due to the baseless polemics.

It sounds like the government is doing some population shuffling to protect it's control.

You'd probably find these on Tor, and in Persian (and putting the protesters in great personal risk). Show me one country whose people think like its government.

I've tried Tor with a 24mbps connection, it's about as slow as 56k.

While Tor is great, it's not a suitable replacement for the open internet until it gets faster.

Nearly every country has a significant amount of freedom-loving and mostly moderate people. You don't see them in oppressive dictatorships because the first priority of oppressive dictatorships is to keep the freedom-loving, moderate masses from exerting their will. Any dictatorship that's been around for as long as Iran's will be pretty good at it.

Perhaps those people have "disappeared"?

Last time there was a major protest the republican guard suppressed it with rape and sniper fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932010_Iranian_elect...