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We hope to have many guest writers from outside the Â鶹Éç offer personal views on this blog. Tehran based bloggerwas one of the first bloggers to be featured on the segment and so it seemed fitting, with conflict in Lebanon and nuclear politics looming large over that country, to hear from him first. This post (which I've edited for length, read the whole thing ) is a powerful argument against national stereotypes. It's one of his recurring themes to stress our common humanity. While he's fearful that Iran may become a target in an expanded conflict, he's also optimistic that the blogs can help unite divided people:

"With the cloud of war gradually casting it's shadow eastwards from where it showers Lebanon and Iraq, it is no longer possible to keep my head under the snow pretending the avalanche is not happening. Iran is now under the shadow of an approaching conflict while its people can do very little to stop it. Seems that the "Shiite Crescent" in dream of Iranian Mullas, is finally crossing the "Great Israel from Nile to Euphrates " idea of radical Jews of Jerusalem. The sad part of the story will begin when the tanks start rolling and bombs start falling and the first victims will be just decent human beings who were stereotyped but the opponent media as either "terrorist nation" or "Zionist occupier". We have been hearing such stereotypes over and over again. We are just like a company whose acronyms are so obvious to the employees but so strange to anyone from outside.....