By day, Alireza Samiei covers banking and insurance for an industry newspaper. By night, he writes a daring online blog about Iran's social and political ills.
In a recent blog entry, he described a scene he saw while talking to a greengrocer about soaring prices: A young child was pleading, " 'Mommy, I want watermelon.' The woman, shy and sorrowful, singled out one broken, small watermelon from the spoiled fruit bin and told the grocer, 'Just this one, please.' She put 20 cents on the counter and hurried away."
Samiei, 27, is among the growing ranks of Iranian bloggers who are relentlessly pushing the boundaries of free expression, making Farsi one of the 10 most popular languages for blogs. The bloggers are testing just how much political and social dissent the nation's rulers will tolerate on the Internet.
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said @ Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 6:59pm
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