Derakshan's views, as the article describes, are complex and informed as much by his genuine nationalism and pride in his country as they are in his principles and ideals. Reading his English-language weblog also shows that he's passionate about what he believes, about right and wrong, and shares the same basic values as we do when it comes to freedom and justice. I don't know what we in the blogsphere can do to try and help him, apart from spreading the word as widely as we can. So please do.Travelling on a Canadian passport, he made a highly publicised trip to Israel in 2006 on a mission to show his "20,000 daily Iranian readers what Israel really looks like and how people live there". He also wanted to "humanise" Iranians for Israelis.
...Mr Derakhshan was acutely aware that his efforts to foster understanding between the two countries that are bitter enemies could jeopardise any return to Iran. ... Commentators in Israel, however, noted Mr Derakhshan recently had become "vehemently anti-Israel in his blog".
The 33-year-old techno-wizard has had a controversial and often turbulent career. Bitterly disillusioned with the Iranian reformist leaders that he once championed, he recently became a grudging admirer of Iran's hardline President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ... Mr Derakhshan has defended Iran's right to nuclear weapons for defensive purposes, and announced that he would return to defend his homeland if America ever attacked. "I can't let myself to sit down for a moment and watch make a Baghdad out of Tehran," he wrote.
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Yet Iran's thin-skinned regime apparently remained deeply suspicious. According to Jahan News, a conservative website reputedly close to Tehran's intelligence community, Mr Derakhshan is under interrogation and during initial questioning "admitted" to spying for Israel -- a grave offence if charges are pressed. The report, citing "credible sources", claimed that Mr Derakhshan's alleged confession included several "intricate points".
(via Talk Islam)
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The lesson is simple, a scorpion is dangerous, no matter what it says, do not believe it.
The Iranian situation is like this, and it is why Derakshan may never make his way out of an Iranian prison, except to face a gallows. This is very disturbing, but perhaps it will shed a light in the minds of people to see this brave and somewhat naive man facing the scorpion of Iranian thuggery.
I believe in peace. I am a decendant of a peacekeeper. I pray for Hossein Derakshan. May Allah bless him and get him out of this.
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