Ali Mazrooie starts blogging

Ali Mazrooie, a top member of the main reformist party, Iran Participation Front (Jebhe-ye Mosharekat) is the newest well-known politician who has started to write a weblog.

Ironically, the main reason is his son, Hanif Mazrooei, who was among those arrested in connection with reformist websites, Emrooz and Rouydad. He later started his own blog after he was released, and now has even dragged his father to do the same.

Hanif has said that there are more reformist politicians coming to the Iranian blogosphere and I'm very excited about this. I guess by the time of elections in June, we'll see more high-profile politician from a wide-range of Iranian political spectrum turning to blogs.