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It was January 2010 when investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency realized something was off at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran.

Months earlier, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its way through computers in Iran — to sabotage the country’s uranium enrichment program and prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from building a nuclear weapon.

While the White House seems to be doing whatever it possibly can to try to file charges against folks involved in Wikileaks, a former Obama adviser is talking up how wonderful Wikileaks has been for the US government, in that it's helped people understand the "challenges" the US faces.

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Yesterday we published 10 Powerful YouTube Videos from Iran, including a particularly graphic video of an Iranian girl dying on the street – we now know her name, Neda.

The deeply distressing video is becoming a defining moment in Iran’s disputed elections, in both social media and mainstream publications.

With the Iranian Presidential election being held next month, a news outlet in Iran is reporting that the country has blocked access to Facebook to prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rival from spreading his message.

US reporters in the country’s capital, Tehran, back the claims that the site is inaccessible.

An AFP report translates: