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Rouhani’s Telecom Minister Has Not Fulfilled Most of the Nine Pledges He Made Since Starting His Post

Rouhani’s Telecom Minister Has Not Fulfilled Most of the Nine Pledges He Made Since Starting His Post

August 15, 2018

Since Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi was approved by Iran’s Parliament as the ...

Iran’s Telecommunications Company Illegally Reroutes Telegram App Traffic

Iran’s Telecommunications Company Illegally Reroutes Telegram App Traffic

August 1, 2018

Move Designed to Tighten Ban on App But Ineffective in the Long Run In a new move aimed at ...

Iran’s Forcing of Teenage Girl to Confess on State TV for Posting Dance Video Prompts Strong Outcry

Iran’s Forcing of Teenage Girl to Confess on State TV for Posting Dance Video Prompts Strong Outcry

July 9, 2018

Authorities Ramp Up Crackdown on Social Media July 9, 2018—Forcing a teenage girl to confess on state TV for the “crime” ...

Iran Telegram Ban Strangles Country Amid Struggling Economy, Protests

Iran Telegram Ban Strangles Country Amid Struggling Economy, Protests

June 19, 2018

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 ...

Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App

Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App

June 1, 2018

The CEO of ...

Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram

Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram

May 24, 2018

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

Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App

May 22, 2018

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 Telegram Ban Reveals New Authority By Judiciary to Directly Order Online Content to Blocked

May 12, 2018

Iran’s ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app has revealed ...

Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram

Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram

May 11, 2018

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 ...

Six Lawyers in Iran File Petition Challenging Ban on Popular Telegram App

Six Lawyers in Iran File Petition Challenging Ban on Popular Telegram App

May 10, 2018

Six Iranian lawyers have presented a legal challenge to a recent judicial order blocking access ...

State-Owned Telecommunications Company Has Yet to Comply With Judicial Order to Block Telegram

State-Owned Telecommunications Company Has Yet to Comply With Judicial Order to Block Telegram

May 7, 2018

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 Lawyers: Rouhani Government Can Challenge Judiciary’s Ban on Telegram Messaging App

May 6, 2018

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

Hackers With Ties to Security Agencies Launch Phishing Attacks on Well Known Iranians and Dual Nationals

May 4, 2018

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned that during the first two weeks ...

In a Desperate Move to Squash Internet Freedom, Iran Blocks Telegram

In a Desperate Move to Squash Internet Freedom, Iran Blocks Telegram

April 30, 2018

Ban Unlikely to Stop Most of Telegram’s 40 Million Users in Iran April 30, 2018--The Iranian Judiciary has ordered ...

Latest State Action Against Telegram in Iran Slows Access, Doubles Cost for Iranians

Latest State Action Against Telegram in Iran Slows Access, Doubles Cost for Iranians

April 27, 2018

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

Khamenei’s Dropping of Telegram Channel Lays Groundwork for Banning Messaging App

April 18, 2018

Most Iranians Distrust Domestic Messaging Apps, Will Use VPNs to Stay on Telegram ...

Senior Official: Telegram App Could Be Blocked “At Any Moment”

Senior Official: Telegram App Could Be Blocked “At Any Moment”

April 17, 2018

Education Ministry Bans Telegram on Campuses On the same day the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council ...

Iranian State Hackers Launched Attacks on Same Day Supreme Leader Issued Fatwa Forbidding Privacy Violations

Iranian State Hackers Launched Attacks on Same Day Supreme Leader Issued Fatwa Forbidding Privacy Violations

April 11, 2018

On the same day that Iran’s supreme leader issued a religious ...

Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps

Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps

April 10, 2018

Religious Ruling Follows News That Widely Used Telegram App Will Soon Be Blocked Following a recent flurry of ...

Rouhani Admin Facing Backlash Over Plan to Give 100 Vetted Journalists Uncensored Internet Access

Rouhani Admin Facing Backlash Over Plan to Give 100 Vetted Journalists Uncensored Internet Access

April 9, 2018

Abbas Salehi, Iran's minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Journalists ...

Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative

Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative

April 5, 2018

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

Iran Cracks Down on Kurdish Activists After Anti-State Protests

March 29, 2018

At Least Two Activists Facing “National Security” Charges Iran’s cyber police, known as FATA, and the Intelligence Ministry have summoned rights ...

Official Suggests Iran May Soon Block Access to Widely Used Telegram Messaging App

Official Suggests Iran May Soon Block Access to Widely Used Telegram Messaging App

March 26, 2018

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Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter

Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter

March 12, 2018

A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media ...

Iranian Telecommunications Minister Blocks His Son’s Access to Google

Iranian Telecommunications Minister Blocks His Son’s Access to Google

February 26, 2018

Telecommunications Minister ...

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