{"id":1092,"date":"2009-06-21T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2009-06-21T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T17:06:02","slug":"a-plea-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"A plea from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email that deeply moved me a few moments ago.  I&#8217;m going to reproduce it here exactly, except that (as requested) I am omitting the name of the sender.  Because I think I&#8217;m going to need a term of reference for him, I am substituting the name of a legendary Persian hero.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My name is [Rostam] , an open source fan and your blog regular commenter &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding to security consideration,  PLEASE KEEP MY IDENTITY SECRET !!<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to inform you about what&#8217;s happening in Iran , but the the wildness circle of Iran&#8217;s religious and dictatorship regime is so that I can just invite you to check this two link in youtube :<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?&#038;search_type=&#038;search_query=neda+protest<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?&#038;search_type=&#038;search_query=iran+protest<\/p>\n<p>Eric, I know that I will maybe face the deadly threats by sending this email. But, I do this because I do believe in freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Inasmuch as, you are one of the most influent persons in one of the most talented community (Hackers) in the world, I humbly ask you write about Iran and what&#8217;s going on there.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell the world that Persian people are fight for freedom . Our fight is &#8220;weapon less&#8221; against a full armored enemy . Our weapon is our great civilization , is our will of freedom and is our prior experience over the history.<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE tell the world that there is no doubt at all that we will see freedom as you saw it after destroying Hitler&#8217;s nightmare &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely Yours , [Rostam]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rostam, I will indeed blog about this.  I begin by publishing your plea, which despite its somewhat broken English is probably as eloquent as anything I could write on the matter.  You have my promise of secrecy.  I will have more to say in coming days.<\/p>\n<p>And, an interesting contrast with <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=290\">my last email from Iran<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email that deeply moved me a few moments ago. I&#8217;m going to reproduce it here exactly, except that (as requested) I am omitting the name of the sender. Because I think I&#8217;m going to need a term of reference for him, I am substituting the name of a legendary Persian hero. My&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1092\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A plea from Iran<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}