HERE’S AN INTERESTING STORY ON IRANIAN BLOGGERS:

As Friday’s parliamentary elections approach, however, there’s a distinct tone of worry that conservatives expected to regain control of parliament would step up pressure to censor the Internet.

“It will be the end of the blog era in Iran,” said a Tehran-based blogger who operates pinkfloydish.com, the name indicative of her love of Western music.

But thus far, the Internet has managed to avoid the hardliners’ choke hold on media, which has silenced dozens of pro-reform newspapers and publications since the late 1990s.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Iranian bloggers have some thoughts on the U.S. Presidential election, too.