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Tag : Internet

June 11, 2024

Crackdown in Iran Intensifies as Iran’s Sham Presidential Election Nears

Hundreds of Arrests, Detainees Violently Assaulted and Tortured Global Leaders Must Speak Out Against the Islamic Republic’s Violence June 11, 2024 - Three weeks after ...

May 13, 2024

Social Media Admin Facing Execution in Iran for Online Posts

Same Judge Sentenced Rapper Toomaj Salehi to Death Few Weeks Earlier Death Sentence for Social Media Posts Shows Intensifying Repression in Iran May 13, 2024 – ...

July 26, 2018

Uncensored internet in Iran

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 23, 2016

Cartoon 149: Worthless Versus Valuable “Likes”

At a June 23, 2016 public meeting with poets chosen and invited by his administration, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: "I have heard that some publish their poetry on the Internet. For ...

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 ...

April 20, 2016

Iranians May Soon Be Able to Make International Online Transactions

Denials Raise Questions Over Whether Deal Will Go Through A global payment service provider based in the U.S. has announced that it has ...

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

Iran to Spend $36 Million on Internet “Smart Filtering,” to No Avail

The Iranian government, in a joint project with several domestic universities, is spending $36 million to develop what it calls “smart filtering” ...

February 18, 2016

Technology Website Staffers Rushed to Prison Before Appeals Court Verdict

Four convicted staff members of a leading Iranian technology website who were free on bail while awaiting an Appeals Court verdict on their cases ...

February 16, 2016

Imprisoned Facebook Activist Begins Wet Hunger Strike

An Iranian activist imprisoned for his social media activity has gone on a wet hunger strike to protest the Judiciary’s rejection of his request ...

February 9, 2016

New App that Detects Morality Police is Instant Hit in Iran

Authorities Block App within 24 Hours of Its Debut A smartphone application aimed at helping Iranian users avoid the country’s morality police became a smash hit immediately ...

February 1, 2016

Call for Prime Minister Trudeau to Secure Release of Imprisoned Iranian-Canadian

February 1, 2016— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should extend all efforts to obtain the release of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident and web develop imprisoned ...

January 28, 2016

Internet Freedom in Iran Will Benefit From Sanctions Relief

Increased foreign investment and access to foreign companies’ technology products in Iran now that sanctions against Tehran have been lifted will not only aid the country’s ...

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