Iran’s Telecommunications Company Illegally Reroutes Telegram App Traffic
Move Designed to Tighten Ban on App But Ineffective in the Long Run In a new move aimed at ...
Internet freedom
Iran’s Forcing of Teenage Girl to Confess on State TV for Posting Dance Video Prompts Strong Outcry
Authorities Ramp Up Crackdown on Social Media July 9, 2018—Forcing a teenage girl to confess on state TV for the “crime” of posting a video of herself dancing on Instagram represents ...
Iran Telegram Ban Strangles Country Amid Struggling Economy, Protests
This report examines the Iranian Judiciary’s ban on the Telegram messaging app, which as of 2018 was integrated into all aspects of daily life in Iran and had some 40 million active users in the country. It assesses what it ...
Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President ...
Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has revealed that the number ...
Iran’s Telegram Ban Reveals New Authority By Judiciary to Directly Order Online Content to Blocked
Iran’s ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app has revealed ...
Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram
The undersigned organisations call on the Rouhani administration to challenge the order and call on the Judiciary to revoke the order and end this egregious violation of freedom of expression rights ...
State-Owned Telecommunications Company Has Yet to Comply With Judicial Order to Block Telegram
President Rouhani Claims Supreme Leader Ordered Ban on Messaging App Used by 40 Million Investigations by the Center for Human ...
Iranian Lawyers: Rouhani Government Can Challenge Judiciary’s Ban on Telegram Messaging App
Iranian President Has Refused to Directly Counter Ban on Widely Used Social Network Two lawyers in Tehran ...
Hackers With Ties to Security Agencies Launch Phishing Attacks on Well Known Iranians and Dual Nationals
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned that during the first two weeks ...
Latest State Action Against Telegram in Iran Slows Access, Doubles Cost for Iranians
The latest move by the authorities in Iran against the messaging app Telegram, used by some ...
Khamenei’s Dropping of Telegram Channel Lays Groundwork for Banning Messaging App
Most Iranians Distrust Domestic Messaging Apps, Will Use VPNs to Stay on Telegram ...
Iranian State Hackers Launched Attacks on Same Day Supreme Leader Issued Fatwa Forbidding Privacy Violations
On the same day that Iran’s supreme leader issued a religious ...
Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps
Religious Ruling Follows News That Widely Used Telegram App Will Soon Be Blocked Following a recent flurry of ...
Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative
Decision made at the “highest level” has set the stage for blocking social network used by 40 million. ...
Iran Cracks Down on Kurdish Activists After Anti-State Protests
At Least Two Activists Facing “National Security” Charges Iran’s cyber police, known as FATA, and the Intelligence Ministry have summoned rights ...
Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter
A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media ...
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Blocks His Son’s Access to Google
Telecommunications Minister ...
Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care
"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident ...
170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps
A few weeks after major protests erupted across Iran in December 2017, the majority of the country's lawmakers signed a letter calling for a ...
Majority of Iranian MPs Call For Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps
A majority of Iranian lawmakers have signed a letter calling for a ban on foreign social ...
Iran Unblocks Widely Used Messaging App Telegram After Two Weeks
It took Iranian President Hassan Rouhani nearly two weeks to lift the ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app, after it was blocked ...
Internet Cut-Off During Recent Unrest in Iran Reveals Tehran’s New Cyber Capabilities
Guards at the Gate: The Expanding State Control Over the Internet in Iran provides an in-depth review of Iran’s internet policies and initiatives, in particular, the development of its state-controlled National Internet Network (NIN), which gives the government newly expanded ...