Baztab
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Baztab(Persian:بازتابmeaningreflection) is an Iranian,Persian language,Tehran-based news website. TheEnglishservice of the site has been published since January 2007. Although Baztab is an anti-reformistwebsite, it sometimes criticizedMahmoud Ahmadinejad's government's policies and unveiled corruption cases inside the government. Baztab is widely believed to have close ties with (or be managed by)Mohsen Rezaee,a conservative politician.
Baztab wasfilteredand suspended for a few weeks in October 2005 for allegedly insulting the former secretary of theSupreme National Security Council,Hassan Rouhani.Baztab's suspension was rescinded after the site's editor, Foad Sadeghi, stepped down.
In February 2007, the website was banned and filtered in Iran for the second time. In September 2007, a court in Tehran ordered the website to be shut down indefinitely for threatening the national security of Iran by "exaggerating the foreign threat to Iran and the possibility of war."[1]In the same month, members of Baztab started theTabnaknews website, following the same policies as Baztab.[citation needed]
Baztab came back online in 2011 with the key people of the first version and a minor change in the domain's address. It was then blocked by the Iranian authorities again and attacked by pro-government hackers.
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[edit]- ^"تحقق آرزوي رياستجمهوري و پلمب دفتر «بازتاب»"[Fulfilling the wish of the presidency and sealing the "reflection" office].Baztab(in Persian). 1 October 2006. Archived fromthe originalon 5 October 2007.Retrieved14 February2024.
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