IRNA Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that confronting the demands and desires of people is a wrong policy which is at the same time both illegal and illegitimate. In a meeting held in Tehran with senior officials and managers of Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, he said that nowadays people could not be denied ...

IRNA Iranian Deputy Prosecutor General Abdol Samad Khorram Abadi rejected news over lifting filtering on Twitter. Khorram Abadi referred to various calls from Iranian ICT Minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi on possible lifting of filtering on Twitter, saying the issue will not be raised in Committee for Determining Examples of Criminal Web Content ...

TechRasa- According to a recent statement by the ICT Minister, there are between 42 to 45 million social media users in Iran. The number of users on Iranian messaging apps has also reached 7.5 million. While its not clear which exact social media or networks have been included in this number stated by the ICT Minister, previously in July 2017, the ...

Al-Monitor- Amid fresh reports that the Iranian authorities are planning to block the popular messaging app Telegram, moderate President Hassan Rouhani has declared his opposition to such a move. In a controversial interview on March 31, member of parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi spoke of Telegram and the apparent decision to block the app. This was ...

IRNA Although Twitter corporation is legally banned from having activity in Iran, the Iranians are not banned from Twitter access, Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology said on Saturday. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi made the remarks speaking during a conference in the southern Iranian province of Fars, when asked about his ...

Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Everything stopped suddenly. We are literally out of work now, Alireza, a 24-year-old university student living in Tehran, told Al-Monitor. He is among many Iranian online entrepreneurs who have suffered major financial losses in recent days due to the authorities intensified online filtering, includingbans on popular social ...

AP--Iran state TV is reporting that authorities have blocked Instagram and the messaging app Telegram. State TVs website reported the decision Sunday, citing an anonymous source who said it was in line with maintaining peace and security of the citizens. The source said: With a decision by the Supreme National Security Council, activities ...

Iran has devised a system that automatically filters offensive websites and cleans the Internet of indecent content, said Irans Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi on Tuesday. According to Vaezi, after Irans first phase of the smart-filtering system was implemented, inappropriate content within websites was rendered ...

Tehran, April 12, IRNA The Telegram social network has made satisfactory cooperation with Iran in filtering unethical channels, says Iran's minister of Communications and Information Technology. There are a large number of unethical channels on Telegram and we are unaware of their exact number, said Mahmoud Vaezi on the sidelines of a conference ...

Tehran, Oct 28, IRNA A member of Group designated to Define Accounts of Crime in Virtual Space said on Wednesday that group has made no decision to filter Telegram and Instagram social networks. Mohammad-Ali Esfanani said that the Parliamentary Group to Define Accounts of Crime in Virtual Space convened at 2 pm in the presence of all its members ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi announced that the country plans to complete a project on filtering Internet contents that are contrary to the Islamic values in cooperation with a foreign company. Smart filtering is a big project and we are (implementing) its second phase, Vaezi said on ...

In less than 140 characters, Telegram breaks the news: "Local network providers are limiting Telegram traffic in Iran. We are trying to find out the reasons." Such reads one of the private messaging app's latest tweets posted on June 30, news website Khabar Online wrote on Tuesday. As the precursors to TelegramWeChat, WhastApp, Line and Viberwere ...

TEHRAN: The Internet and the proliferation of satellite technology mean Iran can no longer control foreign news and television broadcasts, the country's culture minister said Sunday, urging a new approach. In remarks that signal the government's intention to open Iran up to the world, Ali Jannati told police commanders that new delivery systems ...

[caption id="attachment_149033" align="alignright" width="206"] Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it is intensifying its monitoring of online crimes on social networks, specifically Facebook. (File photo)[/caption] Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it is intensifying its monitoring of online crimes on social ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The comments of the Supreme Leader about important issues such as national unity and nuclear talks dominated the front pages of the Iranian dailies on Thursday. The presidents ...

Irans Minister of Communications says a significant budget has been set aside for launching the so-called National Internet and it remains one of his ministrys top priorities. Mahmoud Vaezi said: The National Information Network (National Internet) is a formidable undertaking, and our government has allotted a large budget to it and will realize it ...

[caption id="attachment_74679" align="alignright" width="181"] Iran has started censoring images posted on photo sharing app Instagram, removing content deemed offensive as part of a government project to screen social networking accounts. (Shutterstock)[/caption] Iran has started censoring images posted on photo sharing app Instagram, removing content ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key Takeaway:University of Tehran hosts panel ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A senior Iranian judiciary official raised the alarm over the cultural onslaught that enemies have launched against Iran through cyberspace, and said the move is aimed at creating sedition in the country. Today, the enemies of Islam and the sacred establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran seek sedition (in the country), and the ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   No Halt to Irans Enrichment R&D: Source A source close to Irans team of nuclear negotiators rejected reports that the country might refrain from testing new models of centrifuge machines used to enrich uranium, stressing that research and development activities in the enrichment ...