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Iranian Journalist Arrested Are the mullahs emulating fidel? Editor: Myself, an Iranian blog reports the arrest of an Iranian journalist: Sina Motallebi, well-known blogger and journalist was arrested this morning. He is accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, writing articles both in newspapers and his weblog. His weblog, WebGard (i.e. web surfer), was among the top 5 Persian most popular weblogs while his wife, Farnaz, has her own weblog, mostly writing about their newly-born baby boy, Mani. Sina used to write film reviews for Iranian film magazines in the beginning of his career, then joined the reformist paper of Jameah and continued to work with reformist papers. He was the political news editor in Ham-Mihan newspaper which only lasted a few months. His father, Saeed Motallebi, who is a respected and experienced screenwriter, has been unofficially banned from working after the revolution because of his films in pre-revolution years. We've seen over the past few weeks how fidel has used U.S. distraction by the war to terrorize journalists and other citizens of Cuba. The mullahs may plan the same thing. Spread the word. Also, The Professor suggests contacting the Iranian government at iran@un.int.
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