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Hossein Derakhshan

Arrested in Tehran as "Israeli spy"

Photo of Houssein "Hoder" Derakhshan in downtown Jerusalem in 2006. Jerusalem Post: An Iranian blogger who visited Israel at least twice in the past three years, and who was twice interviewed here by The Jerusalem Post about his efforts to "humanize" Israel for Iranians and vice-versa, has reportedly been arrested in Teheran and admitted to spying for Israel. According to a report in Jahan News, which is close to Iran's intelligence community, quoted by the Middle East analyst Meir Javedanfar, the blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, returned to Iran about three weeks ago, having previously been based in Canada. "Prior to his return," Javedanfar writes on his middleeastanalyst.com Web site, Derakhshan had "started attacking [former Iranian president] Ayatollah [Hashemi] Rafsanjani in his blog. It is possible that he fell foul of a power struggle within Iran." >>>

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apparently

by MRX1 (not verified) on Tue Nov 18, 2008 02:26 PM PST

apparently even IRI found him to be boring! one good thing from his arrest is we will not see his stupid writings in here for a while.


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Jahanshah Javid

Get out soon

by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Nov 18, 2008 02:26 PM PST

I don't know whether this report is true or not. If it's true, maybe in the future he'll show sympathy for innocent people thrown into jail for expressing their views. Hope he gets out soon and unharmed.


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Espionage

by Anonymous33 (not verified) on Tue Nov 18, 2008 02:24 PM PST

He could very well be a spy. Humanizing Israel in Iran is political suicide. Anyone would be smarter than that, unless there is a hidden goal.


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Darius Kadivar

Unfortunate

by Darius Kadivar on Tue Nov 18, 2008 01:56 PM PST

Sorry to hear this. I hope he will be freed soon. Needless to say I did not share his views but he was expressing them in his own original way. The Freedom of Expression has a price. It is wierd though since he was rarely critical of the Regime in Tehran. So I wonder why he would have been a threat to them in the first place.

In anycase I certainly wish to see him liberated soon.

 


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//www.parsine.com/pages

by weekender (not verified) on Tue Nov 18, 2008 01:28 PM PST

//www.parsine.com/pages/?cid=1757
گمانه زنی دیگر این است که غیبت ناگهانی حسین درخشان یکی از شگردهای همیشگی او برای جلب توجه مخاطبان به خویش باشد و چند روز بعد وی با نوشتن یک پست جدید، شوخی جدید خویش را آشکار کند!


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IRANdokht

re: www.hodeiran.com

by IRANdokht on Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:41 PM PST

the last blog entry was 11 Abaan (Nov 1st) 

so whether or not he's bacheh gholhak, the last blog on that site is over two weeks old.

IRANdokht


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Not true

by nono (not verified) on Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:22 PM PST

He is now writing from Tehran, under bacheh gholhak.. www.hoderiniran.com


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In case 2 riali doesn't fall

by Lefty Lap Poodle (not verified) on Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:19 PM PST

In case 2 riali doesn't fall for some and you can't remember, Hoder used to write lot at Iranian.com

//iranian.com/main/member/hoder


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ahvazi

All I can say...

by ahvazi on Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:02 PM PST

Hagh be Haghdaar resid!!!

 


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News Goffer

More speculation

by News Goffer on Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:39 AM PST

Take a look at more speculation about him. //www.parsine.com/pages/?cid=1757


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