Makes you wonder if the Facebook and Twitter downtime was coming from Iran….
Following on the heels of an unprecedented mass trial of 100 opposition figures a week ago, Saturday’s session at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court focused on the British Embassy’s chief political analyst, Hossein Rassam, a local staff member of the French Embassy, Nazak Ashfar, and a 24-year-old French teacher, Clotilde Reisse, who was working and studying in Isfahan, according to IRNA, Iran’s official news agency. In a vague and rambling indictment, the three were charged with espionage and “acting against the national security,” and blamed for inciting “riots.” It went on to blame a litany of Western intelligence agencies, media organizations, and software companies — including Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Facebook, Twitter, Voice of America, BBC Persia, and even Google’s new Persian-to-English translation software — for their roles in the supposed vast conspiracy.
