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Revolutionary Guards Establish 10,000 Weblogs
By IHRV | November 28, 2008
BBC- Sobh Sadegh weekly magazine, which is affiliated with the political arm of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, in its latest issue called the Internet a means for stoking a velvet revolution in Iran, and announced the presence of the guards in the weblog publishing domain.
The magazine said that 10,000 weblogs have been established in 10,000 Revolutionary Guard bases for the purposes of adding “quality content” to the Internet.
The article referred to various resources and websites as tools in the service of the United States, mentioning in particular Email; search engines such as Yahoo and Google; international press, radio, and TV websites; Iranian Radio and TV stationed outside of the country; Reuters, the Associated Press, the United Press, and Agence France.
The article also named filters, busters, hacking, Blue Tooth, and Short Message Service (SMS) as the other forms of diplomatic tools employed by the United States of America
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