Inside Iran

After the first night, the city is “calm”. By “calm” I mean a police for each pump (not even a police for each gas station). But people are protesting their own style. They are making poem and jokes and circulate them among each other using mobile phones and short messages.
The most offensive and the most funny one I have got is this:

Ahmadinejad recently announced that people should not be afraid of benzine limitations: ” If any body needs more transportation than his 3 liters coupon, he can ride one of those 17 million donkeys who voted me 2 years ago.”

hahah… I don't know talking like this is OK or not. This joke is offensive for around 17 million people but it causes lots of laugh and IS political and IS the act of brave people who make and circulate them (all SMSs are known to be saved).
And one more interesting point: After the couponization of the benzine and receiving the first jokes, the SMSs of all of the three providers, stopped functioning because of some “technical problems”

In Iran petrol (benzine) “was” cheap. Before the 1979 revolution it was less that 1 cent for a litre and in the last year it was around 10 Euro cents and the government was arising the price each year by 15%. They've intended to rise the price to “world standards” in less than 10 years. People were considering this 15%, as an official inflation and were adjusting every other thing with it.
At his first year of presidency, Ahmadijenad told that this 15% is one of the problems of our economy and said “this year the oil price will be just like the previous year!”.
But what about this year! He said “We are going to limit each persons usage of the gas because one of the economies problems is high oil usage!” and he decided to 1) couponize the fuel and 2) rise up the price.
Yesterday they just announced that “Each car will have a 100 litre per month limitation and the prices are arises too. And if you are going to use more than your coupon, the price is 50 Euro cents per litre!” this means about 5 times more!!! People were mad. At first they went into the long ques to get petrol and after waiting hours and hours there, the riot started. Fire+Petrol+Angry people resulted to armed police and then guards standing in front of each pump!
I can not understand this government. They have to guard pumps, they have to use armed police against women, they have to use secret police against students and the prisons are full of dissidents; even dissident mullas. They should be ashamed. They can not kill everybody. They can not force anybody to believe what they believe.
One friend from a newspaper told me that they've got an order which says “you may nor write anything about oil prices or last nights uncalms in the newspapers”. But we have weblogs, we have internet and we have mobile phones. Here are some photos. From Mellat News / ISNA which is an official news agency and from the Dourbin (means Camera) site.

From a few days a ago I had problems logging into Blogger to update my Persian weblog in the blogger. Although I do not get the familiar “Page is forbidden” messege, The page does not loads. I kept pushing F5 and kept getting “Server error” again and again. When I asked my fellow Iranian blogspot users, they confirmed having a same problem.
I browsed forums but did now found any evidence from the blogger.coms side. So it seems to have something with Islamic Republics filtering of the Internet.
Today ITNA | Iranian Technology News Agency published (in Persian) : ….

One of the managers of the filtering system confirms that they've got the request of the “beta.blogger.com”s blocking from the authorities and as it's IP shares with the whole blogger.com, we blocked both

Blogger.com was the host of many Iranian bloggers who wanted to be safe. We also have domestic blogging system but they are strictly controlled by the government and your blog might be DELETED for a political sentence or a criticism. This way - by blocking Blogger.com - I think the authorities are going to restrict the blogging community to the domestic servers and have a full control on what people publish in their weblogs.