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Apparently Iran's Parliament voted to discuss a draft bill that effects bloggers over there:
Holy crap! Death for blogging? Now don't get me wrong, 99% of blogs are garbage and crap and I don't even exclude myself from that number but I don't think anyone should be killed over it. Flogged or maybe even ass-fucked by angry orangutans but not death. Christ, that's so irreversible.
About 18 months ago Iran ordered all bloggers to register their web sites, names and addresses on a state run site called Samandehi. At the time quite a few of them rightly believed that doing so would initiate legal action against them.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has an English copy of the proposed legislation for your perusal should you want to head over and check it out. (thanks to BoingBoing for the link)
PRI's The World Podcast with correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports on the legislation.
On a semi-related (only because it deals with Iran) note, the AP had an interview on Wednesday with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who dismissed talk of an attack by the U.S or Israel. Personally I think we just need to skip all of this talk about attacks and whatnot, just bring our soldiers home and nuke the fucking place. Turn Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq into big-assed glass paperweights, drill for our own fucking oil right here at home and let the damned towelheads that are left fight it out with clubs and rocks.
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