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In the recent bogus election, mass-murderer and half educated Ebrahim Raisi has emerged as the new president of terror-patron Iran. Commenting to Raisi, experts on Iranian affairs said, clerics in Iran are taught oratory skills in seminaries. This provides them a tool to speak with sophistry in front of an audience, so they can out-speak the common people.
IRAN’S cyber police have detained the administrator of an Instagram account on charges of “blasphemy and disturbing public opinion” in the country’s south-east.
The arrest occurred earlier this week in Sistan and Baluchestan province, where major anti-government protests have broken out after the closure of the border crossing into Pakistan – a key route for fuel traders.
“This person opened Instagram accounts and posted insulting content in cyberspace with the motive to disturb public opinion and commit blasphemy, as well as encourage divisions between Shi’ites and Sunnis,“ said cyber police chief Hassan Kikha.
Iran’s authorities, which closely monitor online activity, had shut down the internet during a violent crackdown on protests in the province, as they did nationwide during anti-government demonstrations in 2019.