Iranian Government Cuts Off Internet Access Again

AlbionTourgee writes "It is reported that Gmail and Yahoo mail at least have been blocked in Iran, along with many English-language sites. While news of demonstrations seems to be getting out of the country, the government appears to be trying to prevent people within Iran from communicating and from learning what's happening. It remains to be seen whether TOR and Freenets can be effective to combat this sort of effort to block communications, and whether the general circulation of information about the protests around the world will help."

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Re:Tor can be blocked as well.

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But you neglect that most of the Iranian population is rural and poor. These people voted for Ahmadinejad because he actually supports them with his politics. Another thing most Westerners neglect is the fact that the opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi was Prime Minister of Iran after the Iranian Revolution and that he supported terrorist attacks on the US like the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.

I'm not a supporter of the current Iranian regime but I find it terrible how much misinformation is spread around the whole issue. Well, the hundreds of millions of dollars Washington spends for Psyops against Iran have to pay off somehow.