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While Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York saying some words nobody believes, his cronies at home are shutting every single one of their citizens out of the internet. Their excuse: ‘we may get attacked by zionist viruses!’ But of course!
On Sunday, the Iranian television announced that Google and Gmail would be blocked “within a few hours.” The ban will remain in effect until further notice.
Meanwhile, a government deputy minister announced they were going to put all their citizens in a “domestic internet network.” While Iran has blocked sites that go against the government’s views in the past, this will cut citizens off the internet completely.
This time they are planning to take everyone off the grid and into their own government-controlled corral. People are not longer going to be able to use virtual private networks to bypass governmental censorship and access any information around the world freely.
The deputy communications and technology minister Ali Hakim-Javadi says the operation is already under way: “In recent days, all governmental agencies and offices… have been connected to the national information network.”
Officially, every Iranian will be in this cage by March 2013 but the government has not announced yet when they will effectively shut down access to the internet.
With Syria, Egypt and Libya still resonating in their twisted brains, the government and state media are babbling all kinds of excuses to what it seems like a simple move to blindfold its citizens and control the people by having full control of the information they have access to.
The first excuse was given by the Iranian Students’ News Agency, who says the blocking was caused by the infamous “Innocence of Islam” video hosted on Google’s YouTube service.
The government, however, says that they are doing this because two reasons. First, the “control over the Internet should not be in the hands of one or two countries” (which of course, it’s a complete lie and pure hypocrisy, since they are taking control over their own network themselves).
The second reason is computer attacks by external forces. According to Communications and Technology Minister Reza Taqipour, you can’t trust the internet “especially on major issues and during crises.” Major issues like Google taking the name Persian Gulf out of Google Maps, or crises like the virus that attacked their nuclear plants.
Both things are poppycock, especially the second one: if anyone wanted to plan another virus inside a nuclear plant, they can do it within the country. Taqipour should learn a thing or two about computer security. [Reuters]
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Just nuke them, sorted.
Nuking an entire country just because you disagree with their certain individuals in their government? I know you’re only joking though.
Then tarmac it.
Then race on it.
YEEEEEE HAWWWWW!
“Both things are poppycock.”
Not at all. I’m mostly indifferent towards the singular clown that is Ahmadinejad. I’m not indifferent towards the Mossad(et al) and CIA/MI6 dynamic, hell bent on seeking complete control over global information and data, covertly or otherwise.
Don’t peddle your propaganda here. We’re not stupid. Well, I’m not.
They are objectively rubbish though – I suspect you may have misread this. Statement 1 was that “the internet should not be controlled by one or two countries”; firstly, it’s not. Secondly, to replace that with an intranet entirely controlled by your own country is the opposite of a solution to that problem.
Statement 2 was that cutting off from the internet would stop viruses. If the viruses are created maliciously by western countries, that won’t stop them. Besides, I find it hard to believe that ALL internet access will be cut off, including that available to high-level government agencies. Somewhere in there is going to be the exact same kind of exploit than allowed Stuxnet and Flame in. Cutting the populace off has nothing to do with it.
I agree, but it could make it easier to spot any shinanigans. Making communication difficult across the board strikes me as the first (and laziest) line of defense. After that you tighten your grip and monitor the landscape.
Anyway, today’s speech was entertaining. I agree with Ahmadinejad really, but I also agree that there will be a war. An epic war between Zionists and their counterparts. And we’ll get 24/7 HD coverage.
Even the most isolationist states are not 100% self sufficient and thus require some things to come and go. For Iran I suspect the weak point will be oil, it requires up to date info on oil trading, which is a huge data pipeline to push an attack.
No time for zionists, bollocks to that lot. What’s good for one is good for all.. . Too much hypocrisy in the world.
The world is going to change in big ways, technology as well as the flow of oil will shape things to come, control being the biggest factor to allow any one dominant super power to exist..
If Iran gets attacked it will be like a world war, surely that’s a bad move, the muslim countries will turn on Israel.. .
That’s what will happen, a war to end all wars. Zionists’ first line of defense is that they’ve been around for two thousand years, well the Zionist ideology is a late 19th century abomination, Wahabism being a similar cult-like occurrence. But Iran has been around for much longer, then you have the Ottomans and anyone else who wishes to throw their lot into the mix. It doesn’t matter Israel, you can’t win on chronological grounds, or use historical atrocities as positive propaganda for your cause in 2012. That land belongs to everyone, or no one at all. Clear the lot and nuke it, turn it into a wasteland. Build domes over any religious and historic areas. The rest should make Chernobyl look like a 4th of July ticker tape parade for all I care.
This is all a side show anyway. There are speculators looking to get rich off of the disruption caused to the price of oil and gas. That’s why military intervention on Iranian soil is unavoidable.
Yep agree, people power mad will do anything to get wealthier.
Look at the link below regarding the Haarp facility the US has got.
http://www.haarpconspiracy.com/
There are those who suggest the earth quakes and storms we are seeing more of recently are down to the manipulation of the ionosphere…
Maybe some countries would. I doubt saudi arabia would. They fear iran as much as israel does but would never join forces with them. docs released by wikileaks showed that king abdullah of saudia arabia urged the u.s. to invade iran to “cut the head off a snake”.
whether you agree with it or not, jewish people have been wiped out before and will not let it happen to them again.
Note – im neutral! just some points!
Nobody wants to wipe out Jewish people at all. Today there was talk of eliminating the Zionist government, not Jewish people proper, and in the past there was a much misinterpreted statement which demanded the ‘regime of Jerusalem be consigned to the past/history’, not ‘Israel should be wiped off the face of the Earth’. I’m not defending Iran, just a stickler for details. I’d prefer Iranians to rise up and topple their government entirely and on their own with no outside influence.
If that Romney dude gets into power then a war in Iran is more likely In my opinion..
And what if they go into Iran a they find no weapons grade uranium or plans for weapons, then it’s the same old bollocks as Iraq again…
I want Romney to win. Americans don’t understand what they’re doing. They need more guns in circulation, more wars, more religious zealots, more political division and more control from Wall Street.
Only then will they learn.
How ever you look at it, Israel needs to make peace with its neighbours if its going to keep existing and not get wiped out. Creating war with Iran won’t help, it will do the opposite.
I’m not one for war, or nukes, I say live and let live. Just try get along, share wealth and resources evenly as possible. However I can’t stand hypocrisy, if one country is fit to have a weapon, who gives them the right to say what others can or can’g have. Fair enough if they lead by example, but we know in the west nuclear weapons and power exists. People also forget the only so called responsible country to ever use such a weapon is the USA, not sure anybody else would dare to do so..,
Actually he is correct about the 1st statement, it is one country, the USA, that controls it. As recently as August of this year the US voted to keep itself in sole control of the Internet (the net’s technical specifications and domain name system) and not hand over control to the UN: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19106420
Yes, surprising really. We get a less restricted version of the internet than Iran and China. To say it’s free would be quite naive.
Don’t blame them in some ways, if we got hit with stuxnet in a major way, how would we contain it?
Sounds like they are going to filter everything to prevent being hit…
If MI6 received intelligence that the Israeli government were using stuxnet against private companies in the UK, they’d do absolutely nothing. They’d contact their keepers in Washington and then lay over and pretend nothing’s happening.
I’ve always believed the UK should align itself with Europe first, and not prostitute itself out to other parts of the world. Parts which, in the cold light of day, couldn’t give a rats ass if we existed or not.
You’re aware of the fact that we’ve been intermittently at war with basically everyone in Europe for… basically as far back as we can remember, right? The only time we stopped hating on a country was because we both decided to hate on another country for awhile. Whilst America is our somewhat embarrassing and inept spawn. It’s sort of like saying we should stop kowtowing to our four-year old whose found daddy’s hand-gun and wants all our ice-cream and instead start working very closely with the bloke next door whose hedge has been an inch too close to our property for the past 20 years; It’s all well and good saying it, but putting it into practice is probably gonna end with you both being shot by a spoilt brat.
Lol I think you should write stories.. . very entertaining.
Tbh, this is probably a matter of honour – Ahmadinejad doesn’t want anyone in Iran to find out that he was interviewed by Piers Morgan, or they’ll overthrow him before he gets back!
Does anyone actually vet these articles for grammar/spelling mistakes? I’m crap at both grammar and spelling and this piece has even managed to get on my tits. Some of the sentences don’t even read properly! I’ve always hated the grammar police so I know hate myself, thank you Jesus/Giz.
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Lol you are just as bad.
Almost, but then I’m not trying to play blog am I?
No, you are only commenting, not writing articles for the world to read…