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Well, this is the anniversary week of iran's 1979 revolution and a younger iranian in the united states is keeping opposition and hope alive. his hope, though, to be reunited with his father in a free iran. cnn's ivan watson has his story. >> reporter: last week, 28-year-old mehdi sent an online message to his father. my friend, my comrade, today is your birthday, he wrote. but, father, these are days of pain and blood. it's been more than 200 days since you've seen freedom. security forces arrested mehdi's father in iran last july. he has been in prison there ever since. >> during his arrest,...

Iranian history. >> reporter: some videos are sent by trusted contacts. others are posted anonymously. >> you can see an innocent girl being beaten who is not in the protest. she is begging, i mean, you can see her. >> how do you feel when you see this? >> don't they have family? how could they beat their own people? >> reporter: mehdi one-man information campaign often carried out from neighborhood coffee shops shows everything from defiant music videos. ♪ >> it's called spring for freedom. ♪ >> reporter: to the latest photos of new government crowd control methods. >> the ironies, you're...

Treatment. >> reporter: his father is a promisenant iranian journalist and during the iran presidential elections last june he worked for a candidate. mehdi says his father is one of the thousand of victims of the crackdown that followed that disputed election. >> so, basically, july the freedom of speech, i think, is his crime. >> so mehdi stepped in to fill the gap armed with a laptop and a t-shirt with his father's face on it. >> it's important for us to get the word out for us that live on the outside and support them in getting that word out. >> reporter: from new jersey, where mehdi live...