February 12, 2017

Report: Iranian Hackers Target Activists’ Mac Devices With Revamped Malware

State-sponsored Iranian hackers, who had until now focused almost exclusively on civil and human rights-focused users of the Windows...

February 6, 2017

Ailing Political Prisoner Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Denied Medical Care

Soheil Arabi, who is currently serving a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence for the content of his social media posts, is ...

October 13, 2016

10 Things You Should Know About Iran’s Multi-Billion Dollar National Internet Project

“National Internet” Aims to Give State Control Over Iranians’ Access to Information A few months after the Iranian government launched the first phase of its “national information network” (NIN), many questions still surround Iran’s ...

September 14, 2016

Cartoon 154: Bandwidth

In a meeting with the Minister of Communications, conservative cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi recommended allocating the bandwidth used by the popular networking ...

September 14, 2016

Twenty-Year Old On Death Row After “Confessing” on Promise of Freedom

Death Sentence for Posting “Anti-Islamic” Content on Social Media Sina Dehghan was just 19-years-old when the Revolutionary Guards told him, while they were ...

September 9, 2016

Iranian Judiciary Must Stop Punishing Media for Reporting Officials’ Corruption

September 9, 2016—Iran’s Judiciary must halt the prosecution of media outlets which carried out their journalist duty in publishing reports on alleged corruption ...

August 22, 2016

Prominent Labor Activist’s Wife Awaits Verdict for Alleged Facebook Post

Najibeh Salehzadeh was never shown the “evidence” Najibeh Salehzadeh, who says she was falsely charged for posting “insulting” material on Facebook, ...

August 16, 2016

Android Phone Users in Iran Face New Threat by Hackers

Popular Telegram App Remains Main Target Hackers posing as friends are using phone numbers based in the ...

August 12, 2016

Man Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Seeks Reduced Sentence

Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was struck down by Iran’s Supreme Court in 2015 but remains imprisoned ...

July 25, 2016

Real Target of Tehran’s Demand for Apple to Open Office in Iran is US Sanctions

Tehran’s recent ultimatum to Apple, the US tech giant, to open up an office in Iran or face a ban on ...

July 8, 2016

Man Who Was Imprisoned in Iran for Posting Jokes on Facebook Denied Timely Appeal Verdict

Soheil Babadi has written an open letter detailing the torture he experienced during interrogations. Computer engineer Soheil Babadi, who was imprisoned ...

June 3, 2016

Negligence by Major Tech Companies like Google and Telegram Aiding Iran’s Cyber Army

Tech Giants’ Failure to Implement Security Measures Endangers Millions of Users Large technology firms are failing to provide sophisticated and country-specific user security measures, and as a result, are helping Iran’s state agencies target Iranian citizens ...

June 3, 2016

Hardline Council Fires New Shot against Rouhani Administration in Battle Over Social Media in Iran

Directive Forcing Messaging Apps to Store User Data in Iran Would Give Authorities Access to Accounts The directive by Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council ...

May 17, 2016

Iran’s Fashion Industry under Assault; Details of Arrests of Models by Revolutionary Guards Surface

Eight Arrests and Scores Interrogated in "Project Spider 2" May 17, 2016—Eight people working in Iran’s fashion industry have ...

April 26, 2016

Revolutionary Guards’ Cyber Attacks Now Directed at Rouhani Cabinet Members

IRGC Actively Recruiting Technical Experts to Staff New Hacking Team April 26, 2016—Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who have long waged cyber attacks against the country’s ...

April 15, 2016

Hunger Striker in Critical Condition Vows to Continue Strike

Political Prisoner Protests His Imprisonment and Denial of Medical Care Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who ...

April 5, 2016

Iranian Internet Freedom and Cyber Security at RightsCon

Fundamental Changes in Content Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges On the first day of the RightsCon conference, hundreds of participants from around the world shared their insights on ...

April 1, 2016

Iranian Political Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike To Protest Denial of Health Care

Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger strike since March 26, 2016 ...

March 18, 2016

New App Lets Iranians Download Information Via Satellite and Bypass State’s Internet Censorship

Mehdi Yahyanejad, Toosheh's founder. A young company run by a group of Iranian-American professionals based in California has ...

March 14, 2016

Iranians Looking Abroad to Escape State-Controlled Internet

Data privacy and censorship concerns are driving Iranian companies and individuals to foreign Internet servers because domestic providers are powerless to protect their customers ...

March 3, 2016

Iranian Activist Receives Six-Month Prison Sentence for Facebook Posts

The civil rights activist Esmail Ahmadi-Ragheb has been sentenced to six months in prison for “propaganda against the state” by Branch 1 of the ...

February 25, 2016

Rouhani Administration Under Pressure to Shut Down Iran’s Most Popular Mobile App Prior to Election

Telegram Has Emerged as Major Platform for Reformist and Centrist Candidates Iran’s Telecommunication’s Ministry has been under intense pressure by hardline organizations, ...

February 23, 2016