Sir,
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.












