It seems to me that helping them communicate (setting up proxies, opening more tor exit nodes, etc) is helpful, but not particularly open to cries of puppetry. Plenty of people are doing exactly that, and I think it's wonderful that there are simple things a quiet geek can do to help out a bit. Of course, detractors can always claim that open communication is a Western ideal, but it's become quite clear that a lot of Iranians want it as well.
Agreed.
See Anonymous Iran.
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/
Interesting video:
Anonymous Message to Iranian Government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hUFv5c4lFg&
Actually, no. Good luck in the next 15 years.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?