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Protests in Tehran
Jun 24 2009, Marco Villa

While Western media expresses shock that the Iranian regime can be so repressive, Western firms has written the very software that Iran uses to censor free expression.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The Iranian regime has developed, with...

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