"The blogs take over the functions that the state-controlled print media are prevented from carrying out. They contain uncensored reports and commentaries on the major political events in the country. For example, the blog pages gave full coverage on the disqualification of the reform candidates in the upcoming elections on June 17. With the blogs, the system in Iran has gained one more absurdity: a flagrantly manipulated election about which the entire country is reading every detail in real time over the Internet." [English excerpts at Sign and Sight]There are something more than 100,000 weblogs being published in Iran. Here are a few [list maintained by Hossein Derakhshan.
Read it here [German].
Excerpts here [English].
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