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Blogging in Iran Takes Courage

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the making-yourself-a-target dept.

netbuzz writes "This morning's Boston Globe has a thought-provoking profile of Iranian bloggers who are risking everything, quite literally, to bring a modicum of openness and truth to a society where the former is not tolerated and the latter strictly defined by government/religious authorities."

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  1. Re:Fucking grow up. by vertinox · · Score: 5, Informative

    The USA has problems, but comparing it to Iran with a smirk and a shrug is the opposite of helpful.

    Oh least we forget who put the Shah in power. So indirectly, our Government... Which is supposedly in the hands of the US people... Installed a dictator who was terrible enough for a people to wish a revolution that replaced him with a theocratic leadership.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

    So yeah. At home we aren't as bad as Iran, but we had a great big hand in causing them to turn into the country they are today. I suppose I could get into the issue of the Iran/Iraq war which we tried to fix our mistake by arming another which we had to fix ourselves 20 years later.

    And now we are paying for it on a daily basis.

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  2. Re:Fucking grow up. by iMMersE · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bzzt. "Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 47 executions of child offenders in eight countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Yemen."

    Read about it here

    "The USA and Iran have each executed more child offenders than the other six countries combined and Iran has now matched the USA's total since 1990 of 19 child executions."

    That's right folks, Iran has caught up with the USA. CAUGHT UP!

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