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Published Date: 19 June 2009
Search website Google.com added Persian (Farsi) to its Google Translate service today.
It allows opposition groups within Iran to communicate more widely with the outside world through internet and social networking sites in Persian.

A Google spokesman said: "We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran.

"Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world and vice-versa."

Today's move comes at the end of a week of protests in Iran following the disputed presidential election.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed the victory today of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and warned that if protests in favour of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi continued, Mr Moussavi risked imprisonment.

According to the website Technorati.com in 2005, Farsi tied with French as the second most blogged-in language after English.



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  • Last Updated: 19 June 2009 1:29 PM
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China 19/06/2009 13:56:02

Clever Simon from China. RIGHTFULLY SO? Times of raping your own wives in your home are over. Times of digging corpses in your backyard are over. The world has become One Village and there are certains rights, that all of us, humans, are entitled to. Remember, please, it won't be long before your censorship and human rights abuses in China will be in the open sunlight. Then your Gerontocracy will taste what freedom means, even though they will be too demented to understand

Google, a good move !!!

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20/06/2009 04:35:39
SO basically the owner of Google has decided to cause more trouble in the world right? What a wonderful idea lets start another war.
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