Similar edicts have been issued against Wikipedia, the internet encyclopaedia, IMDB.com, an online film database, and the New York Times site. Attempts to open the sites are met with a page reading: “The requested page is forbidden.”

To read more click on the link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1963166,00.html

I think I spot a pattern.

First when I read of ABC’s report. “Ledeeeeeeen” came to mind with a smile.

Next when bumping into this blogpost today (Sunday). I’ll do my duty and link to it.

Cheers!

First off, great to see you in the blogosphere.

The Islamic Republic provides equal amunition to both Hezbollahis and critics of the Mullahs. One of the most recent swipes at free speech from from the Supreme Guidance Council is an announcement for their new regulations for Iranian blogs.
http://www.webna.ir/news/?id=-1934604533
Forms of speech listed as illegal activity are:

- Atheism, rejection or reduction of principles and values of Islam, insulting Islam and its holy values, insulting Imam [Khomeini] or Khamanei.
- Insulting divine religions and their holy books or their prophets and their saints.
- Encouragement for committing any act against security, respectability, and interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Tampering with ideas of an imam or the Supreme Leader, tampering with the Islamic Revolution of Iran and insulting its values.
- Any act against the constitution or attacking the unity and sovereignty [of Iran] or transferring negative ideas or hopelessness to people regarding the lawfulness of the regime.
- Insulting ethnic and religious minorities.
- Unveiling secret documents.
- Spreading immorality.
- Offending people and organizations.
- Illegal businesses, like money laundering and pyramid companies.
- Advertising illegal sites.
- Teaching people how to pass filtering. (the Islamic Republic recently blocked one of the best sites, anonymouse.org)
- Spreading falsities.
- Any link to a site which is illegal, according to what is mentioned in the above.
- Any act against the Sharia [Islam] or any law.

They have also launched a team of Islamic Revolutionary bloggers to go and gum up the conversations in the Iranian blogosphere. You can read a write-up here:
http://unitediranianfront.blogspot.com/.
The link to Arash Kamangir’s site will give you a taste of what the Sepahi Elektrouni does.

Keep up the good work.

On the other note:
I hope the white house doesn’t proceed with this so called talks with Iran and Syria. You don’t negotiate with the Evil.

Can someone please let Prsident Bush know if you talk to Iran and Syria this will send a message to all Anti-west world (Castro and co) that Iranian and Syrian dipolmacy works!!!!

Thank you so much Pajamas. We needed someone like Mike in the blogging world. Cannot wait to read more posts and hopefully more often.

Thanks!

Too bad you haven’t been running NSC these past 5 years.

Fire up the Ouija!

Sincerely,

Your friend in Allah(pundit).

Mine know my name and phone number and actually do read what I mail them.

I know emails can be deleted just as easily as written letters can be “round filed” but I still encourage everyone to get to know your State and Federal legislators.

Thanks for this article. I want to commend Michael Ledeen for being an “International Sex Symbol.” Tough job but someone has to do it.

The concern that I am developing is with our “leadership”. And, the particular concern that I have causes me to fear that noble patriots such as yourself are simply being discounted in leu of a political war.

While our leadership gets on a conference call and discusses the best possible date for everyone to fly into Camp David so as to discuss a “plan/direction for Iraq”.. and, the appropriate people decide what dinner ought to be served.. and all of the political attendees pre-sort all of their hidden agendas, our brave soldiers are forced to flounder in a guerilla war in which their hands are often tied behind their backs. Perhaps you will be asked to fight hand to hand combat with non-uniformed armed terrorists in a graveyard in Sadr City – God forbid we opt instead to call in an airstrike and erase the Iranian/Syrian-backed terrorist murders from the planet. No, you will likely be asked to search for them – one-by-one – by knocking on doors. And, Dan – at that moment, although you will be under more pressure than any other person living on the planet, DO NOT dare shoot anyone. If you do, you may very well find yourself in shackles in the brig at Camp Pendleton, facing a court martial, and completely abandoned by the leadership that you originally opted to fight for.

Drastic times call for drastic measures. Our leadership is trying to kill a mound of ants by sitting naked in the antbead and individually squishing each ant with a pair of tweazers. War is horrific. War is dirty. Colateral damage happens. If we do not fire up our B-52s and stealth bombers soon, the only colateral damage we’ll know is that of our own American cities. Ground forces are meant to secure an area that has been devastated by an air assault. The idea of dropping good-intentioned patriotic soldiers into an extremely volatile region in which the enemy combatants look like the civilians!! Then, the leadership imprisons soldiers who accidentally shoot civilians!! The longer we wait before using brute force, the more brute the force will eventually have to be.

or, we can just keep being cowards and hope the islamo facists go away.