I know it's kind of yesterday's news, but I watched Ronny Edry talking at TED a few days ago and I want to give you a short summary of the story behind. Ronny wasn't acutally expecting such a big media attention when he put this poster online, because he made many different posters before wich were more or less ignored. But with this one it was different - he got up in the middle of the night and passed his computer, just to see many red numbers on facebook. Many people, and beyond them many Iranians, were enthusiastic about his message.
As a result, new posters with different people were produced. It was a stressful time for Ronny Edry and his crew, but this campaign was mentioned in worldwide media. There is even a facebook page with many different posters and pictures which you can find here:
As the Iranians were really touched by this campaign, many responsing posters were made. The special thing about them all is that there aren't just statements from anonymous people, instead these posters show faces of real citizen who agree with the message.
I have to admit that my first thought was: Ok, that's nice, but how should "normal" citizen be able to decide wheather a country gets bombed or not? I do not think they acutally can, but I find it so wonderful to see how this campaign destroys many stereotypes about other countries. Friendships were made because of these posters and many people might have realized that people from another countries just feel the same way.
So if you're interested in this topic, I can highly recommend you to watch the video on TED:
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