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Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google
morpheus83 writes "Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive. Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran's National Council of Information did not explain why the sites were being blocked. Google, Gmail and several other foreign sites appeared to be inaccessible to Iranian users from Monday morning. Iran has tough censorship on cultural products and internet access, banning thousands of websites and blogs containing sexual and politically critical material as well as women's rights and social networking sites." That didn't take long. Iran has now
unblocked Google claiming the censorship was an error.
I guess, we reserve the harshest namecalling for ourselves and our friends...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
guess what? they did! and guess who the party poopers were? the Americans! surprised? read this if you want to learn a little history (warning: this is way too much information if you still cannot find your country on the map) in 50s the Iranians elected their prime minister: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosadegh. But since in any democratic country people demand their share of natural resources (read oil), that conflicted with US and British's free access to other people's s***: the rest is history (from the article above): Operation Ajax: "On April 4, 1953, CIA director Dulles approved US$1 million to be used 'in any way that would bring about the fall of Mossadegh.' Soon the CIA's Tehran station started to launch a propaganda campaign against Mossadegh... Funded with money from the U.S. CIA and the British MI6, the pro-monarchy forces, led by retired army General and former Minister of Interior in Mossadegh's cabinet, Fazlollah Zahedi, gained the upper hand on 19 August 1953 (28 Mordad). The military intervened as the pro-Shah tank regiments stormed the capital and bombarded the prime minister's official residence." This is a well-documented historical example with all the CIA documents published now. There are lots of conspiracy about the influence of the US and UK in the more recent events such as the 70's revolution. What is very amusing is that you guys screw up the region, then complain about how the people don't have balls to do anything about it, and then when the time is right you move in to liberate (read kill) them all.
"Th US has to stop trying to be the world police." Well, one of us has to and since none of you self-serving pricks want the job, the US is stuck with it. Nevermind we've been doing it and paying for it since the 1940's anyway. The rest of you have a lot of nerve since without the US most of you would be saying "hiel Hitler" or "comrade" by now. That's besides paying for the very standard of living you now enjoy. Now that we are hurting from helping everyone else, its nice to know that our "friends" have such short memories. That goes for you too South America.(I've been hearing alot of negative shit from your direction) Without the US forgiving alot of your loans that kept you from collapsing, besides other benign policies(immigration for one), you wouldn't be enjoying your current economic prosperity.