A new law in Iran threatens bloggers and webmasters with the death penalty for "promoting CORRUPTION, PROSTITUTION AND APOSTASY." These online "crimes" join "insulting Islam, drug trafficking... subversive activities against national security, spying and separatist propaganda." as capital punishment offenses in Iran. What's left to blog about?
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Wow. This makes me so glad that the US isn't a Theocracy!
...oh, wait...
I'm an Iranian and I just wonder, what da heck? dude whats next!?
death penalty for anybody who has the intent to blog about those things they dislike?
Gimme a break
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