This report examines the Iranian Judiciary’s ban on the Telegram messaging app, which as of 2018 was integrated into all aspects of daily life in Iran and had some 40 million active users in the country. It assesses what it means for Iranians’ digital rights, ...
The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam Sayedsalehi. Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in Iran Several Iranians posted screenshots on ...
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has revealed that the number of Telegram users in Iran was back on the rise three weeks after the state banned the messaging ...
Iran’s ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app has revealed a new state tactic for blocking access to or “filtering” online and digital ...
Iranian President Has Refused to Directly Counter Ban on Widely Used Social Network Two lawyers in Tehran told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that the Iranian president has the authority to object to the ...
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 ...
Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, the secretary of Iran's Taskforce to Determine Instances of Criminal Content (TDICC). A provocative ...
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 ...
Six administrators of Iranian reformist political channels on the Telegram messaging network have been sentenced to terms ranging from two to five years in prison. According to a verdict issued by Branch 15 ...
The Supreme Cyberspace Council in session. To improve Iran’s ability to monitor and censor online content and user activity, ...
Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content delivery networks (CDNs) —caching servers that allow faster delivery of multimedia data—in Iran, ...
Mohammad Taher Kanani, the lawyer representing Nima Keshvari, a Telegram channel admin who was ...
Iran’s judiciary has ordered internet companies to block the Telegram messaging application’s newly released “Voice Calls” service, calling it a threat to national security, the Center for Human Rights ...
