Ban Unlikely to Stop Most of Telegram’s 40 Million Users in Iran April 30, 2018–The Iranian Judiciary has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to the country’s most… ...
Most Iranians Distrust Domestic Messaging Apps, Will Use VPNs to Stay on Telegram Two days after the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council (SCC) announced Telegram could be blocked “at… ...
Religious Ruling Follows News That Widely Used Telegram App Will Soon Be Blocked Following a recent flurry of public criticism of domestically made messaging apps, Iran’s supreme leader has issued… ...
Abbas Salehi, Iran’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Journalists Tweet “I’m Not Interested” to Protest Discriminatory Internet Policy Iranian journalists and editors working for various news publications in Iran… ...
Decision made at the “highest level” has set the stage for blocking social network used by 40 million. App can be blocked on supreme leader’s order but Iranians unlikely to… ...
A meeting of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media an “Effective Means of Public Diplomacy” The Iranian government’s top internet policy body is currently debating whether… ...
Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi: “We banned Google in our home.” Domestic Search Engines Enable Officials to Censor and Manipulate Results In an interview broadcast on state-funded TV, Iranian… ...
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 state-imposed internet disruption during the… ...
Cyberattacks take place routinely in Iran and are on the rise. Most of the state-sponsored hacking reports CHRI has been receiving have increasingly involved the interception of text messages. Critically,… ...
The NIN has been developed in three phases, two of which were launched during Rouhani’s first term. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, then deputy minister of communications, stated on February 7,… ...
For the first time since the mass protests of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tighter than usual restrictions on internet access to curb the distribution of images,… ...
December 21, 2017 — The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal net neutrality rules has given a green light to repressive countries like Iran to continue… ...
Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi. Seven months into President Hassan Rouhani’s second term, his Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has introduced a new pricing… ...
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… ...
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… ...
Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi’s Twitter page. Officials Used App For Years While Denying Access to Citizens The head of Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Ministry has promised to… ...
The Amad News channel on the Telegram messaging application. Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has vowed to block “anti-revolutionary channels” on the Telegram messaging… ...
A screenshot of the TinyMoviez website. Six administrators of a popular website streaming pirated foreign films with Farsi-language subtitles and voiceovers have been arrested following complaints from their rivals, which… ...
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi was incorrect when he stated recently that using software to access censored online content in Iran is illegal. Indeed, no such law exists…. ...
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has been appointed by President Rouhani to head his telecommunications ministry. Telecommunications Nominee Boasts of Aiding Iran’s State Spying Operations August 16, 2017—President Hassan Rouhani’s pick… ...
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi could become Iran’s new telecommunications minister. Javad Azari Jahromi Enters Spotlight By Unblocking YouTube and Blogger in Universities President Hassan Rouhani is considering nominating a former… ...
Distinguished Iranian attorney Abdolsamad Khorramshahi is one of 36 attorneys who were recently disqualified by the Judges Court for membership in the Board of Directors of the Iranian Bar Association…. ...
