June 21, 2005

Iranian judiciary threatens SMS campaigners

003165.jpg Iran's hardline judiciary warned it would pursue people using mobile telephone text messaging to "denigrate" presidential election candidates ahead of Friday's high-stakes run-off, the AFP reported via Iran Mania.

"Since the first round of polling last week saw Tehran's ultra-hardline mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad propelled into a showdown with moderate conservative cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, portable phones have been bleeping with calls for voters to block a far-right victory.

Several of the SMS messages concerning Ahmadinejad have been particularly insulting.

Iran has more than six million mobile telephone users, and the subscription procedure means all users' names and addresses are held by authorities."

Related - Residents of Teheran send text message against Ahmadinejad

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