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Iran: Balatarin, a popular community website was hacked

Posted 4 February 2009 20:07 GMT 1 · Written by Fred Petrossian

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Digital Activism, Media & Journalism

Several Iranian bloggers reported that Balatarin ^[1], a popular community website was hacked.Farsnews, a conservative site recently accused Balatarin to be a “Zionist” site. Read Global Voices interview ^[2]with Balatarin's founder. Amin Sabeti writes ^[3][fa] Balatarin was used by many news agencies and played a key role in persian web 2.0