An Iranian minister says the entity responsible for running the instant messaging software Telegram has apologized to Iran for a series of unethical �stickers� that were recently made available to Iranian users.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Va�ezi said late Thursday that Telegram�s management entity, in an e-mail sent to the ministry under his watch, had made a commitment to continue�its activities in compliance with the Islamic Republic�s laws and to remove the unethical stickers from the software, IRNA reported Friday.

The Iranian users of Telegram had recently noticed and were repulsed by a series of explicit stickers on the software.

Va�ezi said Telegram had been sent by his ministry�a notification about the unethical stickers.

According to him, Telegram�s management entity also said in its e-mail that �it has not had a direct role in the [the designing and release] of the stickers� and that certain users had designed them using an option provided to them by Telegram.

The administration of President Hassan Rouhani �has no problem with those social software and networks that work within the framework of the Islamic Republic�s laws,��Va�ezi said, adding that,��Only the activities of those networks that seek to violate that framework will be confronted.�

The Telegram application was released in August 2013 and is run by the Telegram Messenger LLP.

By Press TV