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Internet in Iran

Here.

Also mentioned is probably one of the best ideas our government has had in a long time:

These Internet chat rooms, libraries, blog sites, link directories, and news-gathering organizations are an integral part of the civil society today in Iran. Admittedly, the associations on the Internet are more nebulously constructed and short-lived. However, they still fulfill the basic human and democratic need: free speech.

The U.S. government has recognized this trend and is playing its part to help. In August 2003, the U.S. Office of Global Internet Freedom agreed to sponsor a web proxy service for Iranian web surfers created by an electronic privacy software company called Anonymizer Inc. The service gives instructions in Farsi and allows Iranians to visit any website without being traced.


I bet this cost next to nothing, and look what it could accomplish. If we aren't doing this for about thirty other countries, why not?

Now, if Israel would just blast Iran's nuclear production facilities, we would be really getting somewhere. ;)

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