Authorities’ Focus on Political Activists while Violent Individuals Go Unnoticed on Social Media Following the killing of Mostafa Ghasemi, a cleric in the city of Hamedan, by an individual who had displayed his ...
Hamid Fatehi, a deputy minister at the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology One year ...
University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical” following the passage of an amendment to the Islamic Republic’s academic disciplinary regulations. “Publishing unethical ...
Kamal Jafari Yazdi Had a Change of Heart After the 2009 Protests Kamal Jafari Yazdi, a former staunch supporter of the Iranian government, has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment by a preliminary court ...
Some Internet Users in Iran Warned of Prosecution for Accessing Blacklisted Websites In 2019, Iranian media outlets began reporting on the sudden appearance of branch offices of a “Prosecutor General’s Cyber Division ...
In April 2019, Instagram began taking down accounts under the names of current and former members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stating it was do so in accordance with US sanctions law. Iranian officials responded by threatening to ...
Some Iranian officials have responded to Instagram’s decision to remove accounts it has associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by pushing for a nationwide ban on the popular social media ...
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi Denies Future Presidential Bid Amid rumors that Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi is eyeing a future presidential bid, investigations by the Center for Human Rights in ...
Iranians Ask Why Apps that Could Hasten Relief Remain Blocked State filters on social media apps have reduced the efficiency of relief operations in flood-hit regions of Iran, according to an official working ...
A new move by the Apple Corporation aimed at protecting user data has resulted in Iranian apps becoming unusable on the iOS mobile operating system as of February 27, 2019, for some ...
Government Touted “National Information Network” by Promising Improved Digital Protections At least 20 digital media and financial companies in Iran were targeted with DDoS attacks in February 2019, highlighting the government’s ...
Lebanese-born US resident Nizar Zakka refused to make false statements while being filmed in Evin Prison in Tehran where he has been imprisoned since 2017, ...
The mother of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident imprisoned in Iran since 2008, sent a letter to Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi on ...
A labor activist’s widely read Instagram post alleging he was tortured while in the custody of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry ...
Judicial Order Tied to Previously Undeclared Policy of App Usage Level Eight months after Iran blocked the country’s most widely used messaging app, Telegram, a deputy prosecutor has announced a judicial ...
Iranian Client Apps Are Violating Telegram's Terms of Service by Failing to Protect User Data December 17, 2018 – In response to a rising chorus of concerns by internet security experts, Telegram, the widely ...
Twitter Banned in Iran Since 2009 But Many Officials Are Active Users Iranians from across the political spectrum responded to the new presence on Twitter by Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh by ...
Bill Claims to Protect “Digital Borders” by Trampling Internet Freedom, Privacy After repeated denials by Iranian officials about the existence of a bill that would allow ...
Iran's hardline prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. After several state officials called on President Hassan Rouhani to make ...
Since Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi was approved by Iran’s Parliament as the minister of Information and Communications Technology on August 20, 2017, internet control, censorship and surveillance by the ...
Move Designed to Tighten Ban on App But Ineffective in the Long Run In a new move aimed at tightening the state-imposed ban on the ...
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 a blatant ...
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 ...
The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam Sayedsalehi. Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in ...
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling on him to lift the state’s ban on ...