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3. BBC Persian,‘‘basij haba 10 hazar habalagh mi aind’’ [Basij start up 10,000 blogs], November 19,
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10. BBC Persian,‘ ‘ kulhash seer ‘at braee internet perserat dir Iran’’ [Speed reduced for high speed
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11. Ibid.
12. Robert Tait, ‘‘Iran Bans Fast Internet to Cut West’s Influence,’’ Guardian, October 18, 2006,
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14. Ibid.
15. Mehr News, ‘‘naqd azhar at wazeer artbatat dir moord seer ‘at internet’’ [Criticism of the minister
of communications’ statement in regard to Internet speed], May 25, 2008, http://www.mehrnews
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16. Iran CSOs Training and Research Center, ‘‘A Report on the Status of the Internet in Iran,’’ November 8, 2005, http://www.genderit.org/upload/ad6d215b74e2a8613f0cf5416c9f3865/A_Report
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17. See Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, http://www.itc.ir/Portal/Home/
ShowPage.aspx?Object=GENERALTEXT&CategoryID=b518fb25-587d-4c16-9520-9d3f1d3a24ae&
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4283231.stm.
3. BBC Persian,‘‘basij haba 10 hazar habalagh mi aind’’ [Basij start up 10,000 blogs], November 19,
2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2008/11/081119_mg_basij_filtering.shtml.
4. David Bandurski, ‘‘China’s Guerilla War for the Web,’’ Far Eastern Economic Review, July 2008,
http://www.feer.com/essays/2008/august/chinas-guerrilla-war-for-the-web?searched=Bandurski&
highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1.
5. International Telecommunications Union (ITU), ‘‘Internet Indicators: Subscribers, Users, and
Broadband Subscribers,’’ 2000, http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Reporting/ShowReportFrame.aspx
?ReportName=/WTI/InformationTechnologyPublic&RP_intYear=2000&RP_intLanguageID=1.
6. International Telecommunications Union (ITU), ‘‘Internet Indicators: Subscribers, Users, and
Broadband Subscribers,’’ 2008, http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Reporting/ShowReportFrame.aspx
?ReportName=/WTI/InformationTechnologyPublic&RP_intYear=2008&RP_intLanguageID=1.
7. Miniwatts Marketing Group, ‘‘Middle East Internet Usage and Population Statistics,’’ 2009,
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats5.htm.
8. John Kelly and Bruce Etling, ‘‘Mapping Iran’s Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian
Blogosphere,’’ Berkman Center for Internet and Society, April 5, 2008, http://cyber.law.harvard
.edu/publications/2008/Mapping_Irans_Online_Public.
9. Atieh Bahar Consulting, ‘‘Iran Telecom Brief,’’ October 20, 2008, http://www.atiehbahar.com/
Resource.aspx?n=1000014.
10. BBC Persian,‘ ‘ kulhash seer ‘at braee internet perserat dir Iran’’ [Speed reduced for high speed
Internet in Iran] October 20, 2006.
11. Ibid.
12. Robert Tait, ‘‘Iran Bans Fast Internet to Cut West’s Influence,’’ Guardian, October 18, 2006,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/oct/18/news.iran.
13. Telecommunication Company of Iran, ‘‘Performance Report,’’ September 2008, http://
irantelecom.ir/pdfs/amar/SEP_2008.pdf.
14. Ibid.
15. Mehr News, ‘‘naqd azhar at wazeer artbatat dir moord seer ‘at internet’’ [Criticism of the minister
of communications’ statement in regard to Internet speed], May 25, 2008, http://www.mehrnews
.ir/NewsPrint.aspx?NewsID=689151.
16. Iran CSOs Training and Research Center, ‘‘A Report on the Status of the Internet in Iran,’’ November 8, 2005, http://www.genderit.org/upload/ad6d215b74e2a8613f0cf5416c9f3865/A_Report
_on_Internet_Access_in_Iran_2_.pdf.
17. See Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, http://www.itc.ir/Portal/Home/
ShowPage.aspx?Object=GENERALTEXT&CategoryID=b518fb25-587d-4c16-9520-9d3f1d3a24ae&
LayoutID=372f2627-7ccb-40fa-b30a-7a128ef777a5.
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