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The Iranian authority does what it can to facilitate the flow of information to control it: journalists are arrested, censored Internet sites. Loopholes are blogs and online networks.

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At the official Arab television channel Al-Alam regime friendly reports are broadcast here demonstrate supporters of President Ahmadinejad during a meeting their support. (Photo: AFP)

Under www.ahmadinejad.ir is the "Official Blog of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And on Farsi, English, Arabic and French. Yesterday, it was simply there in English, sorry, the server was overloaded. Disturbed electronic communications at the moment is not uncommon in Iran. That there is also the address of the President shall, seems like a small irony of history: normally locks the regime dow him unpopular pages.

The Iranian authority does what it can to the media under control. This ranges from censorship to the threat and arrest of journalists. So says Reporters Without Borders that the authorities of the BBC signal blocked. Even Facebook is the network sporadically blocked. Facebook is used primarily by opposition students, the followers Mussawis used.


Therefore, the opposition now especially with the 140-character Twittermeldungen by the phone can be sent. Twitter is a kind of micro-blog in real time, in the Islamic Republic at the moment acts as a news agency.
Here, reported what happened on the streets, or it will be referred to other sources of information.



Thus we read in the Twitter message, that all foreign journalists researching and reportingon the open road would be prohibited - but with the shortage of commentary between two indents: "rumor".

For foreign journalists remember the situation in Iran at the time before the Internet: You get the messages are not delivered, they must see themselves, what it reports. If you have allowed. ARD correspondent Peter Mezger had from Sunday to Tuesday filming ban imposed by the Ministry of Culture. He was of Bassidsch militias with electroshock devices have been threatened. Meanwhile, Twitter is also a rumor-confirming: Foreign journalists may no longer be reported in Iran, said the Culture Ministry on Tuesday. And they will be deported.
Added on 2009-06-24 16:53:38 . ID: 7