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 ...

TEHRAN Iranian government has blocked the illegal VPN (virtual private network) filter pass software which was used here as a means of gaining access to controlled websites. The move came on Friday following the announcement by the Islamic republic officials in the past days that current VPN services sold by private companies in the market to bypass ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton.   Politics Expediency Council Secretary and presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaisaid, "currently oil dollar [prices] determine Iran's national currency value but [if] elected I will tie ...

Eight years ago, when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first took office, the Iranian government announced plans to develop a national internet network. The project attracted little attention at the time but now, with less than two months to go until the next presidential election, some analysts say it is so well advanced that the authorities could soon ...

Googles much-dreaded announcement on the coming demise of Google Reader has alarmed users in Iran and drawn attention to the scale and complexity of online censorship there. As Quartzs Zach Seward explained in a great post yesterday, Google Reader is one of the few ways Iranians can access Web sites blocked in Iran. (According to ViewDNS, a site that ...

(Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions on Tuesday on an Iranian police unit monitoring the Internet, as well on several judges and media bosses the bloc blames for human rights violations in the Islamic Republic. The sanctions reflect mounting concerns about human rights inIranand are separate from measures against Tehran over its nuclear ...

(Reuters) - Iranian authorities have blocked the use of most "virtual private networks", a tool that many Iranians use to get around an extensive government Internet filter, Iranian media quoted an official as saying on Sunday. A widespread government Internet filter prevents Iranians from accessing many sites on the official grounds they are offensive ...