The perils of blogging in Iran

Today's LAT has an interesting piece by Megan Stack profiling Hanif Mazroui, one of the 20 or so Iranian bloggers arrested by the Mullahs in last fall's crackdown on internet dissidents.

The article also mentions (and links to) a personal weblog by former Iranian Vice President Mohammed Ali Abtahi. His blog is pretty interesting, though it appears that he has been forced to remove his comments about the presidential commission investigating the torture and mistreatment of the arrested journalists and bloggers, at least from the English language version of his website.