Farid Hashemi’s latest "status update" on his Facebook page says a lot about his state of mind.
“It’s better to be born as a dog in a democracy than to be a human in a dictatorship,” he writes.
Iranian authorities blocked the popular social networking site in 2006 as "illegal."
But in February, officials in Tehran took the surprising step of unblocking Facebook. Since then, the site's Iranian membership has been growing fast. Facebook is now the 10th most popular website in Iran.
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