Denied Due Process, Detained Telegram Channel Admins Go on Hunger Strike
Telegram channel admin Nima Keshvari was detained in mid-March 2017 by the IRGC's Intelligence ...
Tag : Telegram
June 8, 2017
Rouhani Government “Closed Seven Million” Websites in First Term
A cabinet minister appointed by centrist President Hassan Rouhani has admitted that the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology filtered “seven million” websites during Rouhani’s first term (2013-17) ...
April 27, 2017
Three Young Men to Serve 12 Years in Prison For “Insulting” Social Media Posts
Three 24-year-olds have been sentenced to 12 years in prison each in Iran for posting critical commentary about politics and religion on the ...
April 24, 2017
IRGC Commander Publicly Criticizes Rouhani’s Refusal to Block Telegram Call Service Before Election
One month before Iranians head to the polls, a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has ...
April 20, 2017
Iranian Judiciary Blocks Popular Telegram App’s New Voice Call Service
Iran’s judiciary has ordered internet companies to block the Telegram messaging application’s newly released “Voice Calls” ...
April 13, 2017
Social Media Emerges as Major Battlefront in Iran’s May 2017 Elections
A month before Iranians head to the polls for the presidential and council elections, a heated exchange between the judiciary and ...
March 30, 2017
Rouhani Orders Investigation Into “Suspicious” Pre-Election Arrests After MPs Ask Him for Explanation
A little over a week after reformist members of Parliament asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to attend to a spate of arrests ahead of the ...
March 23, 2017
MPs Demand Answers from Rouhani on Increasing Arrests Ahead of Elections
President Hassan Rouhani has yet to respond to a letter from four ...
March 21, 2017
Admins of 12 Reformist Telegram Channels Arrested in Iran Ahead of May 2017 Election
Iranian security forces arrested an unknown number of administrators of 12 reformist-aligned Telegram channels on March 14-16, 2017, deleted the channels’ content and changed their names. A number of ...
February 6, 2017
Intelligence Ministry Cracks Down on Alleged “Anti-Revolutionary” Telegram Channels
A screenshot of the heavily edited alleged ...
December 9, 2016
Iran’s Cyber Police Tries to Control Popular Social Media App Telegram with Hacking, Permits
A state crackdown on social media ahead of Iran’s 2017 presidential election has resulted in the Cyber Police ...
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 ...
August 31, 2016
Hackers Exploit Android Phone Security Flaw to Target Activists
Suspected state-sponsored hackers have intensified their attempts to break into the online accounts of Iranian rights activists in recent weeks by exploiting security ...
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 ...
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 to ...
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 been ...
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 activists ...
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 against ...
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” in ...
January 15, 2016
Telegram CEO Rejects Iranian Government’s Claims of Censorship-on-Demand
The head of Telegram, the most popular social media network in Iran, has again categorically denied making any concessions to Tehran regarding censorship. ...
January 7, 2016
Popular Telegram Messaging Application Survives Censorship Vote in Iran
State Filtering Body Refuses to Block the Service An official Iranian state censorship body has resisted calls by hardliners in Iran to block the ...
November 21, 2015
Popular Instant Messaging Applications Severely Interrupted in Iran
A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use of Telegram violated Iran’s crime ...
October 21, 2015
Telegram Reveals Iranian Government’s Request to Spy on Its Citizens
Telegram, which unlike Twitter and Facebook is not filtered in Iran, has emerged as one of the leading social ...
September 17, 2015
Telegram Denies Claims by Iranian Government that it Has Servers in Iran
The popular instant messaging service Telegram has dismissed claims by Iranian officials that a third of the data from its Iranian users is processed ...