Ganji’s Hunger Strike & Lebanon Conflict · Global Voices
Fred Petrossian

Dissident journalist Akbar Ganji and his supporters called for a three days hunger strike to attract attention on Iranian political prisoners. Several bloggers have talked about this hunger strike movement and  some discussed Ganji’s regime change idea.
Bring Iranians closer to each other
MardomIranema thinks that Ganji’s call for hunger strike despite of all discussions has been a positive action. The blogger believes this fact that several people from different political or ideological background joined the strike movement may bring Iranians closer to each other [Fa]. The blogger adds
The blogger concludes “I hope we don’t push Ganji to the top and bring him down and let him alone. We should look at Ganji as like as he sees himself, a journalist. All heavy weight is on his shoulders and more heavy the responsibility is, doing more mistakes will be possible”.
Regime change slogan a major point or a detail?
Javad Rooh thinks that Ganji has failed in his mission. The blogger says Ganji by advancing radical regime change slogans has lost his supporters inside country [Fa]. The blogger adds Ganji joined the bankrupted  opposition forces abroad. The blogger adds
AvayehRahayi has a positive idea about Ganji's action and replies to the previous blogger's criticism. The blogger says  Ganji’s meetings were not limited to the Iranian opposition. [Fa] The blogger reminds us that he met several top philosophers or political philosophers such as Jurgen Habermas, the German philosopher. The blogger believes Ganji’s talk about regime change is a minor part of what he really said. The blogger adds non violent regime change does not work in reality because to change a regime, violence is required. The blogger writes that the main points in Ganji’s talk reflect a new image of Iranian people in the eyes of the world. Ganji tries to attract world attention to human rights issues in Iran rather than the nuclear crisis. Another main point in his talk was to show that there are Moslems in Iran who believe in democracy but are squeezed under the wheels of fundamentalism.
For many Iranian bloggers the conflict in Lebanon has been as important as Ganji's hunger strike call. Several of these bloggers discussed this conflict and shared their ideas with us.
Hezbollah=Iranian Mujahedine
Daana compares Israel's attack on Hezbollah to previous Iranian army attacks on the Mujahedine, an Iraq based armed opposition group  [Fa]. The blogger says
Indifference
Nedaye Emrouz tries to explain why most Persian blogs are silent about the Israel-Lebanon conflict [Fa]. The blogger adds that in general Iranians do not like Arabs, even hate them. Some of them even supported Israel's attack (Nedaye Emrouz thinks this is very cruel). According to Nedaye Emrouz Iranians cannot forget Arab countries’ indifference regarding Iran during the Iran-Iraq war and Iranian government's financial help to Palestinian government when there are many Iranians live in poverty.
Whispers from Iranian Hezbollah
Hamed Talebi a Hezbollah and pro Ahmadinejad journalist explains different ways to act against Israel [Fa]:
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۲-اکنون زمان مناسبی برای جهاد اینترنتی است. مسلمانان در هر جای دنیا می توانند برای ایمیل هایی که متعلق به صهیونیستها است که معمولا با پسوند “IL” شناخته می شود ویروس های قوی و کاری بفرستند. همچنین باید همه مسلمانان دست در دست هم سایت هایی اصلی رژیم صهوینیستی که معمولا با پسوند فوق الذکر شناخته می شوند را هک کنند.
Mohammad Masih says if you are honest you will boycott companies supporting Israel [Fa].The blogger adds you can not change your taste from Coca Cola to other thing or buy Ericsson instead of Nokia. Then please do not talk about defending a nation.
Whispers from politicians
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist politician writing at Webnevesht says in Islamic countries anti Zionist demonstration are spontaneous but not in Iran  [Fa]. Official institutions organise these demonstration in country. Abtahi adds I wonder who advises the President to say
“If Syria is attacked, we will answer it” while it is Lebanon that is being attacked. When this is translated to Lebanese, they would interpret it as if the devastation of Lebanon is not important for the president of Iran. The important thing is that Syrian government is not damaged.
We read in Dr Ali Akbar Velayati's blog, that former Foreign Minister and Leader's adviser considers what Israel is doing now as a governmental terrorist act [Fa].
One Human being=One Human being
Naghde Hal criticised Iranian TV language regarding the conflict [Fa]. The blogger says in the language of Iranian TV  Israelies are killed but Lebanese become martyrs, attacks on Haifa by Hezbollah are praised but the bombing of Lebanon by Israeli airplanes is a disaster.