I read in the news today that the Iranian president Ahmadinejad started his own weblog (link). I think this is breaking news.
That blogs were suitable for one to many communications is nothing new, but that nation-leaders are starting to use it as publicity tool / communication channel is pretty new. I haven’t seen to many leaders communicating via a blog yet. Maybe Bush and/or Blair cs. will copy this initiative??

I think that this will have a big impact on his audience (we’re talking about millions of people). He will now be able to communicate directly with all of them, scattered all over the world. He’s now able to change the mindset of people. Already in his first post he’s writing remarks on the Iraq-Iran war:

Saddam, intoxicated with power and while receiving all the economic, military and intelligence support that USA and other Western countries provided him, proudly announced that he will capture Tehran within 3 days. The war that was imposed on Iran, continued for more than 8 years instead of 3 days and ultimately in the end, not even an inch of Iranian land reach the hands of Saddam and his supporters. During these 8 years, Saddam fought with us and also with his own people. He bombarded our cities with chemical weapons provided by the Western powers and also Iraqi villages and towns. During the whole period of war, while Saddam was bombarding our cities, Islamic Republic of Iran, obeying the laws of Islam and humanitarian principles, never attacked cities and limited the war with the army of Iraq in the battlefield. It is sad, that even this humane attitude of Islamic Republic didn’t impress those who at world stage watched the war at that time.(source, 2006/8/11)

Furthermore a key feature is his current poll:

Do you think that the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word war?

current (11.50pm CET) results: 2344 (44%) yes, 3010 (56%) no

His blog seems to be pretty popular already:

“Server is too busy:
Service Unavailable”

Anyway. His blog is added to my Google homepage.. Looking forward to see his postings and the way he will use this tool to get his message across.

*major spelling mistake on his homepage by the way.. “commenct”

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