Could this be the world's hippest president?

[missIndependent]

Mahmoud's musings: Iran president begins to blog

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has started blogging, with the launch of his own Internet diary.

Check out his site

what's the Monkey face cooking this time?

[Kae Man]

I don't understand farsi.

This is good though we'll get an insight as to how this lunatic thinks.

[missIndependent]

sorry to those cant read persian, i couldnt get it in english..

he has gotta pool on the top left hand side corner:

it says:

Do you think Israel and USA attacking Lebanon is to start another world war?

results so far:

YES 41% (72372)votes
NO 59% (105782)votes

[missIndependent]

Israelis hack Ahmadinejad's blog

Israeli bloggers claim to have overloaded website of Iranian president, causing it to crash
Dudi Goldman

The Iranian website ahmadinejad.com, in which Iranian officials claim the Iranian President publishes a daily journal , was down for a few hours on Monday.

Following a report by Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday about the site, Israeli hackers called for a joint effort to hack the site.
On Monday afternoon, the site was down for an hour and in the evening the site worked alternately.

Israelis bloggers claimed Monday that the site was down because of a joint effort by thousands of Israelis to enter the site simultaneously, causing it to crash.

Despite the effort, the site was operational late Sunday evening.

(08.15.06, 09:12)

Israelis hack Ahmadinejad's blog


so, thats why the link on the first work aint working right now!

August 14, 2006 12:51 PM PDT
President Ahmadinejad joins the blogosphere
Bloggers have been quick to point out the irony in news that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--whose government has stepped up arrests and pressure on bloggers as part of a wider clampdown on the Internet--has launched his own blog.

The blog, which offers versions in Farsi, Arabic, English and French, kicked off Friday with an autobiographical entry that tells of Ahmadinejad's childhood, among other things. The site is also featuring a poll: "Do you think that the U.S. and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word war (sic)?" With over 30,000 votes in so far, "no" has a clear lead.

Some are wondering whether Ahmadinejad's blog is a mere publicity stunt. Others are warning of an exploit, at least for those accessing the site from Israeli addresses. And others still are hopeful the blog is part of a growing trend among world leaders opening dialogs with constituents.


Blog community response:

"If it's genuine then it's a very good idea. Maybe it will inspire Bush and Blair to keep blogs, and if Olmert decides to join in as well, then perhaps they can sort out all these nasty world problems on-line...with our help of course."
--The Nether-World

"Ahmadinejad rambles a lot. I don't think he understands the new medium very well."
--Secular Blasphemy

"This seems to be the next step in the creation of a warmer, fuzzier image for the Iranian president; last Sunday he appeared for a one-on-one interview on Sixty Minutes dressed in a shirt with a collar. (It's only one short step to a tie, friends, and there goes the Islamic Republic)...I eagerly await Muamar Qaddafi's Friendster page."
--faithCommons

President Ahmadinejad joins the blogosphere

[Piling]

Poor man ! he is a newbie in the blogosphere and has been already hacked. Web is a jungle...

[dyaoko]

how can he blog , while he has sent many other YOUNG STUDENT bloggers to prison JUST for Blogging !

thats a shame for bloggers world...a blogger who sends other bloggers to jail and blocks their blogs .

[Rubar]

how can he blog , while he has sent many other YOUNG STUDENT bloggers to prison JUST for Blogging !

thats a shame for bloggers world...a blogger who sends other bloggers to jail and blocks their blogs .

That is the key issue my friend. If only he had respected other peoples right to blog. I gues this guy is a self-hating blogger.

[Shevin]

it's a joke isn't it? o_O

[Kae Man]

I actually think he's trying to show to the world that Islamic Governments do not take the country thousands of years back in time....GREAT ATTEMPT MR PRESIDENT. Using a computer, yet not allowing women in schools...greeeeeeeeat.

[dyaoko]

kae man , they do allow women to study , currectly 60% of the iran universities are female students ....

dictatorship in iran is diffrent with other islamic dictatorships .

[Kae Man]

I know but i heard a while back that there were plans to prevent women from getting an education, though it may have been rumours.

[Shevin]

thats not islamic anymore...thats sexist....i've never seen a sentence in koran that says "women musn't get education" or kind of that.....they are pulling the image of islam into sexist dirt .....this fucking ahmadinedschad

[Kae Man]

well thats what it was like in afghanistan...

[Shevin]

what shall we call them?? because they are anything than muslims

[Gudea]