Iran Accuses Google of Political Meddling
14th Nov 2006, 04:56 GMT
Iran is fuming over a new Google Internet video which takes the viewer on a trip through Tabriz, a city in northwestern Iran. The clip tagline, however, describes Tabriz as located "in southern Azerbaijan, currently in the territory of Iran." Iranian authorities say that the video is designed specifically to call Iranian structural integrity into question. The technology minster believes Google is trying to meddle in Iranian affairs and has called outraged users to inundate Google with emails. Tabriz, whose residents primarily speak Azeri, has changed hands several times over the past few hundred years, being taken back from Russia by Iran in 1947.
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