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No Internet for the Election Day

Kamangir | February 29, 2008 | Category Iran, Islamic Republic

Etemad, a newspaper published inside Iran, reports that they have received word that the Ministry of Communication is considering complete blackout of the Internet in Iran for the day of the Parliamentary Elections [Persian]. Reportedly, this is the first time computerized polling will be integrated into the old paper-based system and the ministry is worried about the chances of technical problems as well as viral attacks.

Reader's Comments

Going into darkness? | Antony Loewenstein | March 1st, 2008 at 12:50 am
[...] No internet for Iran’s election day? [...]
elinor(Iran) | March 1st, 2008 at 1:02 am
Arash, aren’t they the examples of democracy and euity in all forms, specially when it comes to elections? screw them!

Kamangir: Of course they are! :)
localmalcontent | March 1st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I do not see this as good news at all.

An informed populace is a free populace. - The citizens of Iran ought to be able to make up their own minds, using whatever method they, individually choose, or don’t choose. It should not be a decision made, in their spite.

Do you foresee possible electorial manipulation, Arash? Given the observable indifference to, or outright denial of, the ruling party in Iran?

I hope that you will report here, what you see and what you intrepret, going on in Iran??
Global Voices Online » Iran:No Internet for the Election Day | March 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
[...] reports that the Ministry of Communication is considering complete blackout of the Internet in Iran for the [...]