Weekly Intent - Kourosh Ziabari
Intent - October 05, 2008
Iranians defeat Yahoo mail!
It occurred in November 2007 when the Yahoo governors attempted to remove the name of Iran from their supporting countries in signup page lists using the pretext that US imposed some sanctions on the country.
While it was already announced officially that the US exports to Iran has became tenfold despite of the sanctions during the incumbency period of George Bush as Americans president, Yahoo state-funded website removed the name of Iran from its signup available countries list and banned the Iranian users from creating new accounts.
Many journalists and experts believe that the issue of Iran sanctions is media propaganda rather than being practical while the 2008 statistics show that Iran is currently the largest economic partner of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Australia in the Persian Gulf region and also the fourth largest economic ally of Netherlands, Denmark and UK in Asia following S. Korea, China and Japan.
Anyhow, after the removal of Iran's name, the waves of protest embarked in Iran and also among the Iranians residing in other countries.
The first step was debuting a Google Bomb called "Hello Yahoo mail" with the aim of introducing Iran to global opinions, internet users and Yahoo directors as well.
A young Iranian cyber activist Mohammad Tavakoli, established the "helloyahoomail.net" with the slogan: "Culture is our weapon, the weak impose sanctions!" calling for the international attention toward the 7500 years old history of Persian culture and civilization.
The main goal of this Google Bomb which objected the "Yahoo mail" keyword was to provide the users searching "Yahoo mail" in search engines with some unbiased and realistic information on Iran and its people, culture, arts, sciences and history so as to express that Yahoo is altercating with an ancient and peacemaking nation.
The website interviewed many outstanding personalities including university professors and political figures regarding the issue and all condemned Yahoo.
"Hello Yahoo mail" also commenced a national movement in order to encourage the existing Yahoo Iranian users to remove their accounts from the site.
It is estimated that 5 million of Yahoo Iranian users removed their accounts from the Yahoo database after this national call and this called a huge damage to the international credit of Yahoo.
Anyhow, Yahoo mail has suddenly re-included the name of Iran into its list of countries three days ago, without any announcement or apologizes.
It is not clear that why Yahoo removed the name of Iran unexpectedly and why re-added it again, but it is clear that "Hello Yahoo mail" was a simple reflection of Persian talent and power.
The cyber influence of Iranian bloggers, journalists and activists lead to the unforgettable failure for Yahoo and proved that hostility, atrocity and animosity are not proper ways for dealing with ancient nations and civilizations.
Kourosh Ziabari is a 18 years old Persian blogger, journalist and cyber activist who launched the Google bomb against Yahoo.
Kourosh Ziabari, Persian author and journalist, selected as the world's youngest journalist by IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) in 2004, speaks Italian, Deutsch, Arabic and English. Two of his books have been published in Iran and he is known as a scientific and IT-filed journalist. Almost 2000 articles of Kourosh Ziabari were been published in most of Persian authenticated newspapers.
You can read more at: http://cyberfaith.blogspot.com
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Posted by Intent at October 5, 2008 12:08 AM
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1. Posted by
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October 5, 2008 05:09 AM
I know so many people of Iranian descent, and they are great people. The Persian love of good music, good food, and living the life to the fullest as embodied by their traditions poetry and music is something I feel a deep closeness to.
The whole sanctions against Iran thing is a complete, total crock.
The Iranians are not going to nuke America. Of course, they didn't cause 9-11. Don't even go there with me on that one.
The whole thing was cooked up by the Bushies because the needed a new boogie man after Osama's heyday passed.
As for Ahmedinejad, remember he doesn't run Iran. The Ayatollah does. He has a big mouth and he sticks his big foot in it. So what? Let him choke on his stinky feet. Who cares? He has no power really. One word from the Ayatollahs and he's outta there.
They may have a government that stomps down on democracy and reverts to the old theocratic guard, but they are not a military threat to the west by any stretch of the imagination.
Iran is not allowing the Bushies to set up a puppet government and exploit their oil resources. That's the crux of the Bushie reactivity to Iran.
Hopefully, if Obama wins he won't be so gung-ho to commit our over-extended troops to yet another dismal policy failure in the Middle East.
The reason Europe and Asia love to trade with Iranians because they are great businesspeople. They know how to bargain and negotiate, and they know how to run a profitable operation.
So no wonder everyone who is not a Bushie is willing to deal with them.
I mourn for the Persians. They should have their own nation and not be subjected to Muslim rule, in my opinion. They bring a lot economically and culturally to the international table.
The Bushies try to lump them together with the Taliban and extreme Islamic splinter groups.
In reality, the Persians are a totally different people. Apparently the world besides the Bushies (that is, the real world) understands this.
Yahoo should never have caved into the Bushies on this. They gained nothing, and it made them look stupid.
Hello, Chief Yahoo?
2. Posted by
yogi-one
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October 5, 2008 06:45 PM
Thank you Kourosh - for sharing this information, as people need to hear more about cultures directly from the source of their own country. Cheers, Char
3. Posted by
Char4
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October 5, 2008 09:15 PM
You are part of the generation that matters, Kourosh. This is One World. Thank you.
4. Posted by
Ed
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October 6, 2008 01:07 AM
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ruth commented on Weekly Intent - Kourosh Ziabari
Hello Kourosh and Everyone,
A very inte
Hello Kourosh and Everyone,
A very interesting story and it is quite an impressive feat. I wonder is some of that talent and power could be used to bring more actual individual freedoms to the Iranian people and be helpful in loosening the strangling grip of their religious leaders....now, that would be impressive.
keep up the great work,.....ruth