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Iran: Uncertainty After Deadly Blast at Arms Depot

Iran: A Storm of Reactions to Hillary Clinton

A remark by Hillary Clinton in an interview with the BBC in October 26, that the Iranian Green Movement would be smart to seek foreign assistance, has spurred a lot of reactions - among others from the Green Movement's well known figures and bloggers.

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Iran: Be Scared, Dictator - Gaddafi is Dead 20 October 2011
Cameroon: Diaspora Fail to Participate in Elections 13 October 2011
Iran: A “Missing” Blogger and Two Tragic Suicides 2 October 2011
Iran: Rage Over Video of Tortured Bear Cubs 24 September 2011
Iran: Female Blogger Receives 50 Lashes 15 September 2011

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23 January 2012

Iran: Sanctions Bite, and the Iranian Currency Falls

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Iranians are facing a financial tsunami as the national currency (Rial) loses value day by day as sanctions against Iranian oil and the banking system get tougher.

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16 January 2012

Iran: Jailed Islamic Cleric and Blogger on Hunger Strike

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Islamic cleric and blogger, Mohammad Sadegh (Arash) Honarvar Shojayi, is on hunger strike in prison in Iran to protest the four year prison sentence he received in October 2011 for defaming the regime and clergy.

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11 January 2012

Iran: Blogger May Face Death Penalty for Insulting Islam

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

A 50-year old Iranian blogger, Mohammad Reza Pour Shajari (aka Siamak Mehr), has been charged with “insulting the Prophet of Islam” and “enmity with God” or “waging war against God”, charges that could carry the death penalty in Iran.

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16 December 2011

Iran: Unpaid Worker Throws Shoe at President Ahmadinejad

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Several Iranian bloggers reacted with irony to the news that Mahmoud Ahamadinejad, Iran's president, became a target of an angry shoe thrower, during a speech in the northern city, Sari on December 12, 2011.

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30 November 2011

Iran: British Embassy in Tehran Attacked

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa, Western Europe

On 29 November, a crowd of about 1,000 people demonstrated near the British embassy in Tehran after Britain cut all financial ties with Iran over concerns about its nuclear program. The gathering was peaceful, before some participants stormed the building.

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8 November 2011

Iran: Bloggers React to Rumors of Military Strikes

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

The rumor of an impending Israeli or American millitary attack on Iranian nuclear facilities has become a top news story for both mainstream media and Iranian netizens.

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Updates about Farsi

4 February 2012

Governance

Iranian sources say [fa] that Saudi Arabia has blocked Iran Leader's site Khamenei.ir. This sources says this website is blocked because of Ayatollah Khamanei's remarks on “Islamic Arab Spring”. Iranian user on Friendfeed believes [fa]: This could be a start for a cyber-war between Iran and Arabia.

• Hadi Nili

1 February 2012

Freedom of Speech

Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance says [fa]: “As long as global powers are using Facebook and Twitter for their purposes, people of the region should use them to develop their supreme goals”. However, social networks including Facebook and Twitter are blocked inside Iran.

• Hadi Nili

31 January 2012

Governance

Iran police has announced [fa] the official launch of Iran cyber police in Tehran, Iran capital. The deputy commander of this cyber police says that 40 percent of cyber crimes take place in Tehran.

• Hadi Nili

30 January 2012

Governance

A Facebook group called “Daaf and Paaf” (means hot persons) fell under control of Iran's cyber police. Iran's cyber police announced [fa] on the group's Facebook's wall that “the administrators of this group have confessed to promoting banality”. This group had an online competition for choosing hot Iranian men and women.

• Hadi Nili

29 January 2012

Governance

The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Revolutionary Guards) has appreciated [fa] the death penalty for Saeed Malekpour, a web developer accused of running porn websites. The “center against organized crimes” at this army announced there are some other cases for porn website administrators in near future.

• Hadi Nili

28 January 2012

War & Conflict

Free Syrian Army says it has taken hostage seven Iranians, five of whom were allegedly soldiers complicit in the Syrian government's crackdown on protesters. But an Iranian in Friendfeed writes [fa]: “They show a card as a document to show that this people were affiliated with military but that card is a proof that you did the military service which is mandatory for every Iranian man. They might be killed for that simple card which means nothing”.

• Hadi Nili

25 January 2012

International Relations

European Union has adopted an oil embargo against Iran. Faren Taghizadeh, a presenter at BBC Persian TV posted [fa] in Facebook: This is one of the adversities of being a journalist that you should talk about the pain of your people in details with a smile on your lips. But this smile is not the whole truth.

• Hadi Nili

Comments on "Farsi"

Iran: Blogger May Face Death Penalty for Insulting Islam

Dear Samira, he is still in prison and there is no new info on him. This blogger is not connected...
How is he now? What happend in the court of injustice? What can we do?

On a literal level, he's absolutely correct. Other nefarious tools of terrorism-plotting include: wired and wireless telephony, paper, various writing...