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April 10, 2018
Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps
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 a fatwa ...
April 5, 2018
Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative
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 flock to domestic alternatives due to ...
March 12, 2018
Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter
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 it should ...
January 2, 2018
Iran’s Severely Disrupted Internet During Protests: “Websites Hardly Open”
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, videos and reports about the nationwide protests ...
October 24, 2017
Cartoon 174: Surfing the Web in Iran
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February 21, 2017
Briefing: Tracking Twitter’s Growing Popularity in Iran
Twitter’s growth in Iran can be tracked through three distinct stages; when it was banned in 2009, during the nuclear talks in 2013-15, and after the ban was partially lifted in ...
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 service Telegram to Iran's National Intranet, in order to deter millions of Iranian ...
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 interrogating him, that if he confessed to the charge of “insulting” ...
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 UK to contact civil rights and political activists in Iran to ...
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 for posting comments critical of the Islamic Republic on social media, ...
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 Apple products in the country, was presented as a bid to ...