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Throughout this case, I've felt like the charges are just a pretext. They wanted to get this guy for something, and they used this as a justification. I find it really hard to believe that someone in the Iranian Justice Department-equivalent was looking for porn sites and checking out the source code.

There must be something else going on here; this is just misdirection.

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I agree but I don't know enough to figure out what. But it is very hard to believe any government no matter how theocratic would waste time and resources on a guy who wrote a script to upload pictures to the internet, who doesnt even live in the country. Makes no sense.

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He does not have dual citizenship in the us or anywhere else. No idea where you got that or the bit about the FBI.

He is an Iranian citizen who lived in Canada until he returned to visit his dying father and was arrested.

Ah shoot, I got this story mixed up with another. My mistake.

That's another point of view. It may be the case this is just another part of the media campaign against Iran, created to demonize them, and justify the upcoming war.

That's offensive. That's a ridiculous accusation charged with incredible amounts of political bias which trivializes on the life of another human being. You should be ashamed.

I'm not trivializing his life! I don't deny the fact that he's going to be killed over a stupid thing, and that the Iran regime should be ashamed for that. I sincerely hope this could be stopped somehow.

But still, there is a media campaign against Iran which I think no one can deny, and the fact that this story surfaces now, well, makes me think. That's all.

I have to (partially) agree with you. Iran executes people for the most B.S. of reasons all the time, and we rarely hear about it, and we certainly don't get as much of it as we've been getting of this guy.

That's not to say that this guy isn't actually facing a death sentence, or that his life is somehow worth less because [[typical convoluted reasoning to support such statements]]. But these stories (and similar others) may be more interesting as an indicator of relations between the west and Iran than of the internals of Iranian politics.

Thank you. At least someone gets the point.

Good. If a country can be destroyed just by saying the truth, it should be. A country exist only to ensure its populations freedom, liberty and prosperity. In this Iran has failed miserably.

You're confusing "country" with "government".

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