Spain’s National Court has ordered internet providers to suspend the use of the Telegram instant messaging service, pending an investigation into claims of copyright infringement.

Radio Farda - The National Iranian Cyberspace Center has denied reports about the lifting of the ban on popular social networking application Telegram. A statement issued by the center on Thursday October 10 says rumors on social media about the lifting of the ban on Telegram are not true. Telegram, which had close to 40 million users in Iran ...

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 ...

CryptoNewsZ - Authorities in Iran has taken steps against the popular encrypted messaging application Telegram. The nation has warned Iranian citizens against providing any support for the launch of telegrams coin, the Gram. In Iran, any cooperation with Telegram on the issuing of their crypto will be considered as action against the national security....

Foreign Policy | ROHOLLAH FAGHIHI: Iranians are using the messaging app Telegram to spread fake news about the rialand make a profit for themselves. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani owes his re-election in large part to the messaging app Telegram. During Irans 2017 presidential election, Iranians relied on the app as a rare source of uncensored ...

Crypto News -Update: Telegram developers fixed the issue in the next two hours. There was no update on the reasons behind the crash. Telegram functions completely restored for all countries that were affected, and with that we are back in business. The Telegram team gave the okay sign through these two tweets: Telegram Messenger ?@telegram 17h One ...

MNA Irans Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi has ordered an investigation into the report of data-hijacking from encrypted messenger app Telegram by Irans Telecommunication Company on Monday. Jahromi confirmed the reports in a Tweet on Monday night, saying that in the event of an error, whether inadvertent ...

IRNA Iran Intelligence Ministry has stopped activities of a thousand anti-Revolution Telegram channels and summoned their administrators, Intelligence Minister said. Addressing Majlis (Parliament) Sunday open session, Mahmoud Alavi said 'we are acting based on national interests' and security. The Intelligence Ministry has stopped activities ...

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 -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 ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, May 1, and picked headlines from 20 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the remarks made by the Leader of Irans Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in ...

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 The access problem of Telegram messenger will be solved within hours, Telegram CEO said. Massive overheating in one of the Telegram server clusters may cause some connection issues for European users within the next couple of hours. Apologies for the inconvenience the problem is being solved, Pavel Durov wrote on his Twitter account. Telegram ...

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 ...

IFP- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says removing the monopoly of foreign messaging apps by reinforcing domestic ones does not mean other social networks must be restricted. Apparently referring to the controversial issue of blocking peoples access to the popular messenger Telegram, Rouhani stressed that people have the right to choose between ...

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 ...

Financial Tribune- Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi took to Instagram to give ear to the growing concerns of the public regarding the proposed ban on Telegram, the popular communications app with over 40 million Iranian users. Jahromi wrote on his Instagram page on Saturday night that the blocking of international services as a method ...

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 ...