{"id":1964,"date":"2008-11-20T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-11-20T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:33:15","slug":"hoder_in_jail_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Hoder in Jail in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been arrested by Iranian security (h\/t Harry’s Place<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Hoder – as he was widely known in the blogs is another OG blogger who has lived in Canada for some time to keep himself out of the hands of the Iranian police. While anti-mullah, he’s resolutely pro-Iranian, and we’ve actually knocked heads a bit on that.<\/p>\n

The Guardian writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A prominent Iranian blogger has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel after visiting the country with the aim of being “a bridge between Iranian and Israeli people”.<\/p>\n

Hossein Derakhshan, 33, was reported by the Iranian website Jahan News<\/a> to have confessed during initial interrogations to being involved in espionage.<\/p>\n

The Jahan News site, which is widely believed to be linked to the Iranian intelligence services, also said he had been described in Jewish newspaper articles<\/a> as a “friend of Israel”. <\/p>\n

Derakhshan is known in Iran<\/a> as the Blogfather after effectively launching the country’s craze for blogging<\/a>. He has claimed 20,000 people a day read his postings. <\/p>\n

He holds joint Iranian-Canadian citizenship and left Tehran for Toronto in 2000 after hardline opponents of then president, Mohammad Khatami, closed down the reformist newspapers he worked on. He also lived in London for a while. <\/p>\n

Derakhshan had returned to Tehran three weeks ago. His blogs<\/a>, in Persian and English, have been suspended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been arrested by Iranian security (h\/t Harry’s Place). Hoder – as he was widely known in the blogs is another OG blogger who has lived in Canada for some time to keep himself out of the hands of the Iranian police. While anti-mullah, he’s resolutely pro-Iranian, and we’ve actually knocked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}