Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

February 7, 2018

"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident ...

170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

February 3, 2018

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 state ...

Majority of Iranian MPs Call For Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

January 18, 2018

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

January 12, 2018

It took Iranian President Hassan Rouhani nearly two weeks to lift the ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app, after it was blocked amid ...

Internet Cut-Off During Recent Unrest in Iran Reveals Tehran’s New Cyber Capabilities

January 10, 2018

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 ...

Iran’s Severely Disrupted Internet During Protests: “Websites Hardly Open”

January 2, 2018

For the first time since the mass protests of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tighter than usual restrictions on ...

US Repeal of Net Neutrality Harms Internet Freedom at Home and Abroad

December 21, 2017

December 21, 2017 -- The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal net neutrality rules has ...

Rouhani Admin’s New “Fair Usage” Internet Price Rates Violate Net Neutrality

December 7, 2017

Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi. Seven ...

After Fiery Speech, Iran Censors Ahmadinejad-Related Online Searches

November 29, 2017

Websites affiliated with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were blocked in Iran and the country’s most widely used state-approved video-sharing site has barred users from accessing Ahmadinejad-related content after the controversial politician criticized state officials in a recent speech ...

Iran’s Snapp Taxi App Violates User Privacy Rights by Spying on Users’ Phone Data

November 22, 2017

Iranian users of an Uber-like Iranian-made app recently discovered that the app had spied on their phone data ...

Iranian Official Threatens “Restrictions” on Social Media Networks That Reject State Censorship Policies

November 18, 2017

A senior official representing Iran’s top internet regulation body has threatened to take action against social media applications that refuse to comply with the country’s strict censorship rules ...

Iran’s Requirement for Internet Users to Verify Their Identity Would Further Erode Privacy Rights

November 15, 2017

Ongoing announcements by Iranian officials that every citizen in the country will soon be required to verify their identity to use the internet indicates that the state is moving towards further eroding individual privacy rights ...

Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Says He’s Looking Into Lifting the State Ban on Twitter

November 12, 2017

Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari ...

IRGC Hackers Target Iranian Journalists Based Abroad With Malware Campaign

November 9, 2017

Hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted journalists based abroad with a malware campaign launched on November 6, 2017 ...