Tehran, February 25,The Iran Project Iran's elections of parliament and the Assembly of Expert are to be held on 26February and prediction indicatesmassive turnout of voters across the country. An outstanding feature of the upcoming election which makes it totally distinctive from the previous elections is related to the debate of campaign advertising....

Implementing the second phase of the smart filtering system will be launched in the next two months, according to Mahmoud Vaezi, the Islamic Republics communications and information technology minister Iran's ISNA news agency reported May 4. It is not clear which social networks the new phase will cover, he added. The first phase of the project ...

Iran plans to loosen Internet censorship by introducing smart filtering which only keeps out sites the Islamic government considers immoral, Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday. Internet use is high in Iran, partly because many young Iranians turn to it to bypass an official ban on Western cultural products, and Tehran occasionally ...