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		<title>U.S. License Lets Group Send Anti-Censorship Software to Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/14/u-s-license-lets-group-send-anti-censorship-software-to-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 14 (Bloomberg) &#8212; The U.S. government approved the export to Iran of software designed to help citizens avoid government censorship of their Internet use, according to the program’s developer, the Censorship Research Center.
The “Haystack” software lets Internet users hide their identities and use Web sites &#8212; such as Google Inc.’s YouTube, Facebook Inc., and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winner of design concept competition achieves great success in the red dot award: product design 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/winner-of-design-concept-competition-achieves-great-success-in-the-red-dot-award-product-design-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/winner-of-design-concept-competition-achieves-great-success-in-the-red-dot-award-product-design-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[










&#8230;this time in the red dot award: product design 



















Free Iran: Although this is not Iran related, when Iranians make contributions to world progress, it is a good moment.
The Berlin-based designer Arman Emami achieved great success in this year’s red dot design award. In 2009 he had won a ‘red dot: best of the best’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Warns Iran Over Electronic Censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/22/eu-warns-iran-over-electronic-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/22/eu-warns-iran-over-electronic-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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Free Iran:  Although the EU&#8217;s deliberations about promoting open access to information in Iran is a positive step, without pressuring the regime such calls for open access would simply fall on deaf ears.  The EU should kick out their satellite channels from Western satellites that carry them and make it far more difficult for them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian developers defy huge odds to create acclaimed computer game</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/21/iranian-developers-defy-huge-odds-to-create-acclaimed-computer-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/21/iranian-developers-defy-huge-odds-to-create-acclaimed-computer-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The game, created by a 20-member team, is expected to be released abroad to coincide with the Iranian new year, which starts Saturday. There have been other Iranian-produced computer games, but &#8220;Garshasp, the Monster Slayer&#8221; is the first that can compete internationally.
The action-adventure game is set in ancient Persia (as Iran was formerly known) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austin Heap: how I helped Iran&#8217;s citizens to beat the censor</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/21/austin-heap-how-i-helped-irans-citizens-to-beat-the-censor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/21/austin-heap-how-i-helped-irans-citizens-to-beat-the-censor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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Free Iran:  A great example of individual initiative.

Austin Heap, the programmer from California, explains how he created Haystack, the software that broke the grip of Iran&#8217;s censors after the disputed 2009 election.
If you imagined a computer hacker with the know-how to topple governments, you might well picture someone who looks a lot like Austin Heap. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Times:  Europeans call for action against Islamic Republic for jamming of international satellites</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/19/la-times-europeans-call-for-action-against-islamic-republic-for-jamming-of-international-satellites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/19/la-times-europeans-call-for-action-against-islamic-republic-for-jamming-of-international-satellites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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Stop the regime from jamming international satellites
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Free Iran:  Providing access to satellite TV (and the internet) in Iran is one of the most critical steps the West could take to help Iran&#8217;s democratic movement.  If the West can&#8217;t stop the regime from jamming these satellite channels, then how could it stop its nuclear drive?  Sanctions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3/16 Iran other</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/16/316-iran-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Bildunterschrift: Internet censorship is a global problem 
DW:  End of US export ban on Web tools leaves Iran, Cuba and Sudan speechless
The US decision to allow the export of Internet tools to Iran, Cuba and Sudan won&#8217;t bring about instant change. But it does make life harder for the censors &#8211; and the regimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Allows Internet Exports to Closed Societies</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/08/u-s-allows-internet-exports-to-closed-societies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/08/u-s-allows-internet-exports-to-closed-societies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday.
On Monday, he said, the Treasury Department will issue a general license for the export of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web monitoring not possible with system sold to Iran: NSN</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/06/web-monitoring-not-possible-with-system-sold-to-iran-nsn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/06/web-monitoring-not-possible-with-system-sold-to-iran-nsn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finnish-German telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) on Friday countered allegations technology it sold to Iran in 2008 could be used to monitor Internet traffic.
NSN sold GSM networks to Iran and &#8220;supplied one client with a certain additional feature, which is no longer in our portfolio&#8221;, spokeswoman Riitta Maard told AFP.
That feature, she said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia &#8211; Connecting People</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/03/nokia-connecting-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/03/nokia-connecting-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[.

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		<title>Pulling the Strings of the Net: Iran&#8217;s Cyber Army</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/27/pulling-the-strings-of-the-net-irans-cyber-army/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/27/pulling-the-strings-of-the-net-irans-cyber-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past few months, the activities of Iran&#8217;s Cyber Army have attracted growing notice in the Iranian and international media. The suspicion that the Cyber Army&#8217;s constituent hacker groups are connected to the Iranian government was strengthened when, after several sites were hacked, they issued warnings to the Green Movement. The scope of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Target Iran&#8217;s Censors</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/18/target-irans-censors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/18/target-irans-censors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s what happens when a business linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) is targeted with sanctions. A representative of the Revolutionary Guards finds a lawyer in Dubai and says: “Look, I’m on this stupid U.S. Treasury list. I’ll give you 10 percent. Help me set up a shell company in Dubai or Malaysia.”
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1001 Inventions and Muslim Heritage</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/13/1001-inventions-and-muslim-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/13/1001-inventions-and-muslim-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coffee, computers and piston engines &#8211; could we imagine a world without them?  These are intricate parts of every day life for most of us and the knowledge that led to them was either invented by or passed down through the ancient Muslim world.  That&#8217;s the theme of an exhibit in London&#8217;s Science Museum and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran announces launch of animals into space</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/03/iran-announces-launch-of-animals-into-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/03/iran-announces-launch-of-animals-into-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LA Times: Iran announces launch of animals into space
Iran announced the test-firing of a powerful rocket loaded with several live animals into space and unveiled a handful of other space technologies Wednesday, ahead of a nationalist holiday and amid heightened international concerns about Tehran&#8217;s nuclear research and missile programs.
The long-awaited launch of the Kavoshgar-3 satellite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran warns opposition on cell phone, e-mail use</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/15/iran-warns-opposition-on-cell-phone-e-mail-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/15/iran-warns-opposition-on-cell-phone-e-mail-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s police chief on Friday warned opposition supporters not to use cell phones and e-mail messages to organize protest rallies against the government, saying those who do so will be prosecuted and punished.
Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said spreading the word of the opposition through Internet or cell phone SMS is a crime that deserves severe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctions Keep Vintage Aircraft Flying In Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/14/sanctions-keep-vintage-aircraft-flying-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/14/sanctions-keep-vintage-aircraft-flying-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blocked from purchasing modern Western aircraft by economic sanctions in place since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s domestic airlines rely on an aging fleet of planes that have largely disappeared from North American and European skies. As a result, what Havana is to old cars, Tehran is to old airplanes. It’s not uncommon to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The Mobile Internet Could Change Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/06/how-the-mobile-internet-could-change-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/06/how-the-mobile-internet-could-change-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of technological innovation has shown that tyrants and authoritarian governments have found that co-opting technology is often better than banning it.
Morozov continues: &#8220;The Soviets did not ban radio; they jammed certain Western stations, cracked down on dissenting broadcasters at home, and exploited the medium to promote their ideology. The Nazis took a similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glimpse into Iran&#8217;s Internet Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/10/26/a-glimpse-into-irans-internet-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/10/26/a-glimpse-into-irans-internet-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Vidoe made by Iranian-American visit to Tehran in 2008. His statement: Its hard for me to reconcile the images of violence that spread across the globe after the Iranian election with the peaceful streets I witnessed a year before. What was going on behind the walled courtyards of Tehran while I was there? Well, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: Desperately Unwired</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/27/iran-desperately-unwired/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/27/iran-desperately-unwired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For such a notoriously wired country (as least among urban youth), Iran certainly has slow download speeds. According to an international Internet speed test website, Iran ranks number 189 among countries in terms of download speed. 
That places Iran behind Iraq and Afghanistan, nations whose infrastructure was either never really there or destroyed by war. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech startup creates State Dept.-approved educational games for Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/26/tech-startup-creates-state-dept-approved-educational-games-for-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. State Department has contracted a small Virginia-based startup to create mobile phone games to help citizens of nations the U.S. has poor relations with — mostly in the Middle East — learn about America and its values.
 
The strategy is to use the mobile phone — which even poor families own in countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran tries to crack games market</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/21/iran-tries-to-crack-games-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/21/iran-tries-to-crack-games-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video game developers from Iran have been exhibiting at a Western game convention for the very first time.  Representatives from the trade body, the Iran National Foundation of Computer Games, were on hand at a dedicated stand at gamescom in Cologne.  They were there to showcase the latest games developed in Iran, establish contacts, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web tools help protect human rights activists</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/19/web-tools-help-protect-human-rights-activists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/19/web-tools-help-protect-human-rights-activists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese human rights activist Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2005 after authorities tracked him down using data provided by Yahoo.       
The Internet service supplied information that it garnered about his location when he accessed his Yahoo e-mail account. That was enough to find him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Iran Fail To Build A Bomb?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/16/will-iran-fail-to-build-a-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/16/will-iran-fail-to-build-a-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clive Thompson profiles Bueno de Mesquita, &#8220;one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists,&#8221;   who applied game theory to Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. His conclusion:
By early 2010, according to the forecast, Iran will be at the brink of developing one, but then it will stop and go no further. If this computer model is right, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Warriors Poke Holes in Iran firewall</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/15/msnbc-web-warriors-poke-holes-in-iran-firewall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/15/msnbc-web-warriors-poke-holes-in-iran-firewall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
MSNBC news segment on Iranian-Americans students assisting in circumventing Iran&#8217;s internet firewall.
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		<title>Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/14/can-game-theory-predict-when-iran-will-get-the-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/14/can-game-theory-predict-when-iran-will-get-the-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=5842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people wonder, but Bruce Bueno de Mesquita claims to have the answer.
Bueno de Mesquita is one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists. A professor at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, he is well known academically for his work on “political survival,” or how leaders [...]]]></description>
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