AP Iran has arrested the prosecutor who had ordered a block on access to the popular messaging app Telegram. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said on Tuesday that Bijan Ghasemzadeh was detained on corruption charges last Friday. It did not say whether the charges were related to the Telegram case. Iran has arrested dozens of judges and judicial ...

MNA Iranian ICT Minister Azari Jahromi said Mon. that 10.5 users have signed up to domestic messaging apps and the number is growing, almost a month after Telegram was banned in the country. ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahrami made the remarks after a meeting between officials from Parliaments commissions of national security, economy and ...

Al-Monitor- Iransminister of communications and information technology is continuing to criticizeunelectedgovernmentalbodies for their attempts to block social media and messaging services. Irans judiciary shut down Telegram, a popular messaging servicewith approximately 40 million users in Iran, after conservative officials complained that national ...

IFP - The Iranian president says it was not his administration that blocked the Telegram messaging service, nor is the ban approved by the government. Hassan Rouhani wrote on his Instagram page that the policy of the eleventh administration has been to create a safe virtual space, not a securitized one. So far, no social network or messenger ...

IFP- The Iranian government, in a statement on Tuesday, has blasted the Judiciarys ban on the popular messaging app Telegram. Elaborating on the governments general policies on the cyberspace, the statement said the government has always sought to provide Iranian citizens with easy, cheap and safe access to information and communications equipment....

IFP -Irans Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has criticised a decision to block the popular messaging app Telegram in Iran, saying it was no solution to concerns regarding the messenger in the country. Telegram was eventually filtered on Monday night, capping months of speculations regarding ...

Press TV- Iranians have begun installing new messaging applications after telecommunications providers blocked Telegram as per a judiciary order to protect national security. Telegram was down on Tuesday, with alternative platforms such as the domestic Soroush and Gap apps already released for use, offering most of Telegrams features. Iranian ...

IRNA Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court in a decree on Monday declared that the activity of Telegram will be blocked in Iran since April 30. Many people have lodged numerous complaints at the public and judiciary court calling for closure of Telegram. Since telegram with the address of (Telegram.org) was founded by foreign investment ignoring ...

IRNA - Telecommunication Infrastructure Company announced that the lincese for deployment of Telegram servers in Iran has been nullified. The Telegram company is now obliged to withdraw its servers from circuit. The legal license issued by National Cyberspace Center regarding the deployment of the Telegram distribution network servers to Iran ...

Al Monitor - The popular messaging app Telegram is seemingly drawing its last breaths in Iran as a number of reports indicate its likely imminent blocking. Telegram has more than 40 million users in Iran and is widely believed to have played a significant role in the victory of Irans moderate President Hassan Rouhani in the 2017 presidential elections....

MNA Iranian President's Office has issued an order banning the government offices from using dominant foreign messengers such as Telegram. According to Reza Javaheri from Irans Presidents Office, all the government offices and institutions are banned from using social messaging services like Telegram. Earlier this month, Iranian officials had ...

IFP- A number of channels on the Telegram messaging service attributed to top Iranian officials, including that of the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, have stopped activities on Wednesday morning in a move that may signal the imminent blocking of the messenger. In its last post on Telegram, the Khamenei.ir channel said ...