TEHRAN:A body tasked with policing the Internet laid down a two-month deadline for Iran's government to regularise the use of Instagram or access to the site would be blocked.
Iranian authorities regularly block Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites considered damaging to the values of the Islamic republic.
Mohammad Ali Asfani, a ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian prosecutor has denied reports that a local judge ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications ...
TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) A member of Committee for Determining Examples of Criminal Web Content has said government endorses criminal content filtering.
Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Reza Aqamiri told Mehr News in the meeting of the Committee that contrary to what had been told in some media outlets, the government representatives had a positive cooperation ...
Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency is reporting that a court has ordered that Instagram be blocked over privacy concerns.
Mehr said a court order had been given to Iran's Ministry of Telecommunications to ban the popular mobile phone photo-sharing service because of a lawsuit.
Social websites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have already ...
Irans President Hassan Rouhani said websites banned in his country includingFacebook Inc. (FB)andGoogle Inc. (GOOG)s YouTube are part of a great change that his nation should be included in as every citizen has the right to access the Internet.
In a speech at a conference on information and communication technologies in Tehran today, Rouhani said ...
TEHRAN A long-smoldering battle over government control of media and culture in Iran is heating up, as opposing political forces fight over where the limits should be drawn on access to information.
President Hassan Rouhani and his supporters say that press restrictions should be reduced and that the public should be trusted with greater access to ...
Facebook will most likely be widely accessible in Tehran as well as all over Iran in the near future according to Irans Culture Minister. The government is currently working on allowing for open use of the social networking site, along with other popular websites.
"Four million Iranians are on Facebook, and we have restricted it," said Minister ...
Tehran, March 5, IRNA Speculations about greater freedoms in virtual space began with beginning of President Hassan Rouhani?s tenure. Lifting filtration on the Facebook was among initial demands and a campaign under that title was launched in that network.
The membership of a good number of cabinet members in that social network increased the hopes ...
Iran's Internet regulations are to be "adjusted and updated" to reflect modern times, according to the country's culture minister. He said Iran will not be able to maintain its ban on outlets like Facebook forever.
Culture Minister Ali Janati said Sunday that Iran was working to remove Internet restrictions, part of the new government's ...
TEHRAN Only a handful of countries rival Iran for having the slowest Internet speeds in the world. Simple online tasks can take hours, infuriating some who see the sluggishness as emblematic of a broader paralysis.
The way they block bandwidth here is like a virtual dam, Reza Mohammady, a Web designer, said.
But now Iran is promising to change....
President-elect Rohani has beengetting pushback from hardliners for his moderate stands. But he has backing in powerful corners.
Irans President-elect Hassan Rohani is saying all the right things to the 50.71 percent of Iranians who voted for change in mid-June elections: He promised again today to ease censorship and social and Internetrestrictions,...
In an unusual move, Iran's minister for communications and information technology, Mohammad Hassan Nami, has acknowledged that the country restricted the speed of the Internet in the days leading up to the June 14 presidential election.
"The reduction of the Internet speed, which some called 'disturbances', was the result of security measures takento ...
What we deal with in our country everyday!
What is the definition and image you have in your mind from the word Internet?
I guess many of you will say; its a tool; we use it to achieve what we want. Im telling this because when you look at something as a tool you think about its functionality and how it can help you to do something but ...
TEHRAN Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
The authorities deny such claims, but have not explained exactly why service has become slower.
Businesses, banks and even ...
The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says China, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, and Vietnam are the world's worst offenders in terms of Internet censorship and spying.
RSF said in anew reportthat regimes clamping down on dissent should not have easy access to Internet surveillance tools.
The report, "Enemies of the Internet," also ...
The Islamic Republic'spresidential balloting might not be till June, but Tehran is already tightening its internet controls.
Iran appears to be taking measures to tighten online censorship ahead of its presidential vote. In recent days, a long list of online activities has been designated as criminal, including calling for an election boycott, organizing ...
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