Interesting; look who was rummaging (with Lynx) through our archives this morning:

inetnum: 213.176.126.0-213.176.126.255
netname: IROSTINTERANETWORK
descr: Network Service Provider for Iranian
descr: universities and research organisation
country: IR
admin-c: MHE4-RIPE
tech-c: ZC202-RIPE
status: ASSIGNEDPA
notify: chizari@irost.com
mnt-by: IROST-MNT
changed: chizari@irost.com20010816
changed: ipdomain@irost.com20040131
source: RIPE

route: 213.176.64.0/18
descr: IROST-route
origin: AS15611
mnt-by: IROST-MNT
mnt-lower: IROST-MNT
changed: ipdomain@irost.com20021222
source: RIPE

person: Mohammad Hassan Entezari
address: IROST No.71 Forsat Ave Enghelab Street Tehran
phone: 9821882662
fax-no: 9821882662
nic-hdl: MHE4-RIPE
notify: ipdomain@irost.com
mnt-by: IROST-MNT
changed: ipdomain@irost.com20040328
source: RIPE

person: ZohrehChizari
address: Iranian Research Organisation for Science, Technology.
address: No.71- Forsat Ave.
address: Enghelab Street
address: Tehran, Iran
phone: 9821882662
fax-no: 9821882662
e-mail: chizari@irost.com
e-mail: ipdomain@irost.com
nic-hdl: ZC202-RIPE
mnt-by: IROST-MNT
changed: yazdian@irost.com20000725
changed: chizari@irost.com20021218
source: RIPE

Since Iran is cracking down on blogs, I’ve blocked this IP address from our site. It may be innocent, but it also may be a representative of the mullahs trying to collect damaging evidence against Iranian bloggers.

UPDATE at 2/23/05 4:26:41 pm:

An LGF reader emailed the following:

The same IP and User-Agent just showed up all over my Apache logs at work. Unless they’re preparing a fatwa against the immoral financial services industry, I’d assume this means it’s just a search-bot.