Editing Blogging in Iran (section)

Following a crackdown on Iranian media beginning in 2000, many Iranians turned to weblogging to provide and find political news.<ref name=price/> The first [[Persian language]] blog is thought to have been created by [[Hossein Derakhshan]], (in Canada), in 2001. Derakhshan also provided readers with a simple instruction manual in Persian on how to start a blog.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OUtoJovyjMIC&q=Derakhshan+blog+iran We Are Iran] By Nasrin Alavi, (Soft Skull Press, 2005) p.1, 341</ref>   In 2004, a census of blogs around the world by the [[NITLE]] found 64,000 Persian language blogs.<ref name=NITLE>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OUtoJovyjMIC&dq=NITLE+blog+census+iran&pg=PA1 We Are Iran] By Nasrin Alavi, (Soft Skull Press, 2005) p.1</ref> In that year the Islamic government also began to arrest and charge bloggers as political dissidents and by 2005 dozens of bloggers had been arrested.<ref name=price>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4283231.stm The price paid for blogging Iran]| By Clark Boyd| 21 February 2005| bbc.co.uk</ref>