Iranian weblog update
: Well, I don’t have any update because there hasn’t been a lot going on in the Iranian weblogs lately. But I thought I should just tell you that I’m still watching them.
3 responses to “Iranian weblog update”
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There’s plenty happening on Iranian blogs, but the whole subject matter is not that ‘sexy’ anymore. The 30 second attention span has already drifted away onto other things, perhaops more interesting at the moment kinda things. Now only if we can build up some excuse to focus the world’s attention on Iran and away from the mess we’ve created in Iraq, the same way Iraq made most forget about Afghanistan… aha! got it! how about Iran’s “pursuit of nuclear weapons” and WMD’s with a twist of Al-Qaeda connections. Sounds old but it’ll probably work again. Watch for it.
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Pedram:
Most of the English-language Iranian weblogs I read regularly haven’t even been updating lately. You have, of course. But the activity — just in terms of posting — has been much lower. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that; same things happens with me. I’m just saying that I AM continuing to read them and WILL report here when I find things of interest because we SHOULD keep this connection. So quite to the contrary of what you’re saying, the reason I posted this was to make sure people knew that interest had NOT been lost. So don’t turn that against me and turn it into a poltical screed; it’s just an update about friends you may not have heard from in awhile. -
Jeff – what I wrote was not AGAINST you. It was a general observation from those of us from the other side of the equation (Iranian bloggers) who read the non-Irani blogs regularly and notice how quickly the interest evaporates as soon as that 30 second time limit is up. I am glad YOU are following closely. I certainly hope others do as well. If we (collectively) learned anything from 9/11 it is how important it is to pay attention to people and countries seemingly so far away, and whether you consider Iran as the next battleground, a very interesting and major political/ideological influence, the hot bed of coming democracy in the region, home of a hostile regime or any other point of view, it is vital to watch and watch closely. Peace and freedom will never come to the middle-east unless the Iranian question is resolved in favor of those two goals and without peace and freedom in middle-east, this world will never rest, no matter how far geographically each of us lives from that region. All the best.
