Russia's leaders, as well as Press TV editors, would do well to take note of Hossein Derakhshan's comment* on Aftabnews:
<http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:6aSAQjLMv3sJ:i.hoder.com/archives/2007/06/070624_016159.shtml+aftab+news+hoder&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a> آفتاب مال ريچارد پرل است یا حسن روحانی (June 24, 2007)
Excerpt: I wonder sometimes if Aftab news is owned by Hassan Rohani or Richard Perle! It's coverage on the nuclear negotiations is so full of hatred and jealousy in regard to the new team headed by Ali Larijani that it's not much different with the Israeli-American line of opposition towards the programme. What a shame that Rafsanjani's entourage are harming Iran's interests for their partisan politics.
* The comment above is available only in Google cache now, due to the termination of Derakhshan's account apparently due to threats from Mehdi Khalaji of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (see below). The Iranian diaspora is very much a political jungle -- just like home!
<http://hoder.com/weblog/> Land of Liberty and Lawyers August 11, 2007
Last night Hosting Matters abruptly terminated both my accounts on their server, because I noticed they had removed ANY English post where Mehdi Khalaji [LINK: <http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=33>] was mentioned. Not only from my web directories, but also from my blogging software database. Then they threatened me not to reveal anything about what they had done or they would sue me!
Fortunately, I had backed up all my data on both servers. But I'm still frustrated and puzzled at why were they so scared?
I'm considering taking legal action against Hosting Matters for its unethical conduct that has and is going to cost me a lot of time and money and energy.
Anyway, I'm now using a new hosting account I have recently bought. But I have to migrate dozens of domain names, software and plugins, blogs and databases to the new server and this takes a lot of time and energy -- and also technical expertise which I don't have when it comes to Virtual Private Servers.
So in the past 24 hours I've just managed to setup my email address and my main domain names and a tiny part of my archive, especially for my Persian blog.
I'm writing these lines using manual HTML coding and I guess I would have to do this until I finish the migration process, most likely in the next few days.
Let's see what Mehdi Khalaji, the Washington Institute's fellow, is going to do next to silence someone who thinks he is helping the enemies of Iran and humanity [LINK: <http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC11.php?CID=133&newActiveSubNav=Board%20of%20Advisors&activeSubNavLink=templateC11.php%3FCID%3D133&newActiveNav=aboutUs>].
Here is the backgroud of the story, in case you don't understand what is happening here: Part one [LINK: <http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhoder.com%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F016290.shtml&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a>], part two [LINK: <http://209.85.135.104/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=HqF&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cache:http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/016299.shtml&spell=1>] -- Yoshie