You may have heard the news from Tehran that the Godfather of the Iranian Blogsphere Hossein Derakhshan was arrested earlier this month. He was charged by espionage. According to the official statement “in Farsi” which did not mention his full name but rather “Hossein D.” he was spying for Israel. This is the first part of his confessions.
To be honest I feel lost here because of the sudden Hossein’s change in opinion from someone who attacks the IR to someone who defends Ahmedinejad. It is strange thing to me to find someone who is atheist to go back and live again in Tehran with all those laws against human personal freedoms. I can’t understand it , also to be honest because I do not understand Farsi , I can’t say how he was caught or how he was spying !!
To read more about the case ,I recommend you to read the Guardian’s report about this incident.
Here are Hossein’s blogs ,also here is his photo gallery in Flickr including the photos of his famous visit to Israel. This is another 
In fact this shift in opinion can make anyone suspect , spies do not like to be in place of suspicion.
The problem here is that in suppressive regimes you can’t trust them easily because they can change truth but on the other hand you will wonder what if it were and he were a spy. Also do no forget that there were similar incidents of Iranian journalists and researchers who went back to their country and found themselves accused of espionage to the west ,for instance like Dr. Haleh Esfandairi
Of course he is a Canadian and Canada will be involved in the same way it was involved in Al Attar case or even more because this Iran and this is a well known journalist/blogger
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