Iran blocks Facebook ahead of presidential election
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23-May-2009 (one comment)

The Iranian government has blocked access to the social networking site Facebook amid political jockeying for the June 12 presidential elections, according to the semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency. Reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi -- a former prime minister considered a threat to current hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- created a Facebook page for his campaign that has more than 5,000 supporters on the site.

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Iran blocks Facebook ahead of election

by asefati on Sat May 23, 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Typical IRI. If they can't control it, they outlaw it, block it, ban it, and call it haram.


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