Balatarin

I read in Balatarin (a kind of Farsi version of Digg) that after the police present in the stadium told them that even if there is a player with that name, they are not allowed to shout this name, they started chanting "Rahnavard!"

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

-- The UK Guardian: A Farsi website, Balatarin, carried an unconfirmed report that seven people had been killed in the southern city of Shiraz following confrontations with riot police at the local university.

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

With the invaluable help from some readers — Chas, Chuck, and other Iranian Americans I wish I could name because they deserve the credit — I was able to post a message in Farsi on Twitter and have my request for questions posted late last night on Balatarin.

The Velvet Underground Revolution & Nico 2009

The group spends time converting videos to all sorts of formats (including mobile, enormously popular in Iran) and propagating them throughout social networking sites like Facebook and the Iranian-themed Balatarin, all in an effort to make video of what's happening in Iran nearly unavoidable.

Slipping video past the net's censors Scola, Nancy 2010

I can't emphasize enough how grateful I am for all the submissions I received -- both from contacts I've been communicating with for several days, and from many others via email and Facebook and the Farsi-language social networking site Balatarin.

HuffPost's Nico Pitney Asks Question About Iran At White House Press Conference (VIDEO) 2009

With the invaluable help from some readers -- Chas, Chuck, and other Iranian Americans I wish I could name because they deserve the credit -- I was able to post a message in Farsi on Twitter and have my request for questions posted late last night on Balatarin.

HuffPost's Nico Pitney Asks Question About Iran At White House Press Conference (VIDEO) 2009

And Pitney later described how he solicited questions through readers of his live blog, and through outreach in Farsi on Twitter and the Persian social network Balatarin; the White House saw what he was up to, and got in touch to let him know that he might be called on during the briefing.

Pitney's Iran Question Upsets the Press Apple Cart 2009

I read in Balatarin a kind of Farsi version of Digg that after the police present in the stadium told them that even if there is a player with that name, they are not allowed to shout this name, they started chanting "Rahnavard!"

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

With the invaluable help from some readers -- Chas, Chuck, and other Iranian Americans I wish I could name because they deserve the credit -- I was able to post a message in Farsi on Twitter and have my request for questions posted late last night on Balatarin.

HuffPost's Nico Pitney Asks Question About Iran At White House Press Conference (VIDEO) 2009

I can\'t emphasize enough how grateful I am for all the submissions I received -- both from contacts I\'ve been communicating with for several days, and from many others via email and Facebook and the Farsi-language social networking site Balatarin.

HuffPost's Nico Pitney Asks Question About Iran At White House Press Conference (VIDEO) 2009