From a few days a ago I had problems logging into Blogger to update my Persian weblog in the blogger. Although I do not get the familiar "Page is forbidden" messege, The page does not loads. I kept pushing F5 and kept getting "Server error" again and again. When I asked my fellow Iranian blogspot users, they confirmed having a same problem.

I browsed forums but did now found any evidence from the blogger.coms side. So it seems to have something with Islamic Republics filtering of the Internet.

Today ITNA | Iranian Technology News Agency published (in Persian) : ....

One of the managers of the filtering system confirms that they've got the request of the "beta.blogger.com"s blocking from the authorities and as it's IP shares with the whole blogger.com, we blocked both

Blogger.com was the host of many Iranian bloggers who wanted to be safe. We also have domestic blogging system but they are strictly controlled by the government and your blog might be DELETED for a political sentence or a criticism. This way - by blocking Blogger.com - I think the authorities are going to restrict the blogging community to the domestic servers and have a full control on what people publish in their weblogs.