Politics of Rightful KillingIn the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistanthe online and real life transnational network of Iranian bloggersand depicted it as a liberatory site that gave voice to Iranians. As Sima Shakhsari argues in Politics of Rightful Killing, the common assumptions of Weblogistan as a site of civil society consensus and resistance to state oppression belie its deep internal conflicts. While Weblogistan was an