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iht.com - 11/24/2008
The 'blogfather' of Iran
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Hossein Derakhshan, a former journalist, blatantly defied the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by visiting Israel and writing about it on his Farsi blog.
nytimes.com - 11/20/2008
Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon
— nytimes.com — Iran has produced enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, though it is unclear if... the country has achieved the necessary technical advances to create a bomb. > (more) Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon

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Israeli Air Force chief: We are ready to deal with Iran | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 11/19/2008
Israeli Air Force chief: We are ready to deal with Iran | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
— jpost.com — "We are ready to do whatever is demanded of us" in order to stop Iran from getting... a nuclear weapon, IAF commander Maj. -Gen. Ido Nehushtan told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published Tuesday. Nehushtan told the magazine that whether a ... (more) Israeli Air Force chief: We are ready to deal with Iran ...

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iht.com - 11/20/2008
Iran said to have enough nuclear fuel for one weapon - International Herald Tribune
— iht.com — Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb,... according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures detailing Iran's progress were contained in ... (more) Iran said to have enough nuclear fuel for one weapon - ...

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Instapundit:  REPORTEDLY, Hossein Derkashan has been arrested. Some further thoughts here….

Yourish.com:  Iran’s blogfather arrested

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Daniel Lubetzky: Who is Hossein Derakhshan?

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REPORTEDLY, Hossein Derkashan has been arrested. Some further thoughts here….
Instapundit — REPORTEDLY, Hossein Derkashan has been arrested. Some further thoughts here.

Iran’s blogfather arrested
Yourish.com — Abraham Rabinovich writes: What surprised me about Hossein Derakhshan when I interviewed him in a café on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street two years ago was that the self-exiled Iranian, who was arrested this month during a visit to Tehran on suspicion of being an Israeli spy, favored a nuclear-armed Iran and a religious Islamic regime. What isn’t surprising is that Derakhshan has now been arrested. He was arrested for a most serious crime. The object of his visit, Derakhshan said, was to show his countrymen ...

Daniel Lubetzky: Who is Hossein Derakhshan?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... same fate of execution by the Iranian government. His crime? Trying to humanize Iranians and Israelis towards each other. A couple years ago, he apparently defied a ban on travel by Iranians to Israel in order to explode stereotypes about Iranians to Israelis, and to report from his blog about ordinary Israelis to Iranians. As a Canadian-Iranian, presumably he figured he could get away with it -- and visited twice, then dared to return to Iran. According to Abraham Rabinovich who wrote for IHT: The object of his visit, Derakhshan ...

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