Iran’s judiciary summons telecoms minister over failure to filter Instagram
A court in Iran has summoned the country’s telecoms minister to investigate why he failed to filter photo-sharing website Instagram, among other…
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Iran completes most advanced domestically-made satellite
IRNA – Iranian ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday that the final tests of the country’s most advanced domestically-made…
ICT minister says cyberspace provided for education sector
IRNA – Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) urged all on Wednesday to make efforts to prepare the ground for…
Iran inaugurates 5G network site
FNA – Iran on Wednesday inaugurated the fifth-generation internet site in a ceremony participated by President Hassan Rouhani and Minister of Communications…
Minister: Iran to present 5G Internet within months
IRNA – Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi said Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran will present 5G internet…
Iran to make 18 satellites by yearend
FNA – Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced that the number of the country’s manufactured satellites will…
ICT minister unveils Iran ‘Netflix’ plan
Intellinews – Iran’s information and communications technology (ICT) minister has announced a new internet protocol television (IPTV) project to get 5mn Iranian…
Iran’s Nahid 1 satellite ready for launch: ICT minister
Press TV – Iran’s minister of information and communications technology (ICT) says the country is ready to launch Nahid 1 (Venus 1)…
Iranian minister apologizes over mock spacesuit post
AP — Iran’s information minister apologized Wednesday for posting a photo on Twitter of what appeared to be a Halloween-type costume representing…
Iran plans to launch Zafar-2 satellite in May or June: Minister
Press TV – Iran says it is planning to put its domestically-built Zafar-2 (Triumph-2) satellite into orbit using a Simorgh (Phoenix) satellite carrier…
Iran vows to continue space program after satellite launch failure
Al-Monitor – Despite Iran’s much-publicized satellite launch on Feb. 9 that failed to reach orbit for the third time, Iranian officials have…
ICT minister says will announce details of Zafar Satellite launching
IRNA – Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi in a message said details of launching Zafar Satellite will be…
Iran’s Zafar satellite launched successfully, fails to reach orbit
Press TV – The spokesman for the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) says the country has successfully launched its domestically-made Zafar (Triumph) satellite…
Iran to launch Zafar Satellite within hours: ICT Minister
IRNA – Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi in a message said that Zafar Satellite will be launched within…
Iran to focus more on digital economy
Tasnim – Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology unveiled plans to increase the share of digital businesses in the country’s economy.…
Iran Gov’t outlines projects to expand digital economy
Financial Tribune – A five-year plan for developing Iran’s digital economy and its details were discussed in a meeting of the High…
ICT Minister: Zafar Satellite to be launched within 4 days
IRNA – Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi in a message on Monday said that Zafar satellite will be…
ICT min.: Home-made “Simorgh” satellite carrier deployed in launch site
MNA – Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi on Wed. said that the domestically-manufactured ‘Simorgh’ satellite…
Six satellites ready to be launched into space: ICT min.
MNA – Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Mohammad Javad Jahromi said on Sun. that six domestically-manufactured satellites are ready to…
Iran to launch homegrown satellite in weeks
Tasnim – A new Iranian satellite is going to be sent into the orbit at an altitude of above 500 km within…
Iran is losing sight of its ‘Developmental Vision’
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On December 11, Iran’s information minister announced via social media that he had a “surprise” to reveal. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi,…
Iran working on Int’l tech ties
Financial Tribune – In line with Iran’s policies to expand its international scientific and technological ties, ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi…
Iran says it’s defused 2nd cyberattack in less than a week
AP — Iran’s telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the country has defused a second cyberattack in less than a week, this…
In wake of internet shutdown, Iran’s programmers face uncertain future
Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: About twenty years ago, when Milad Nouri first told his parents and university instructors that he…
Iran banks burned, then customer accounts were exposed online
The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman: The details of millions of Iranian bank cards were published online after…
Major cyberattack against e-government infrastructure repelled: ICT min.
MNA – ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said Wed. that a major cyberattack against the infrastructures of Iran’s e-government has been…
Minister vows to back Iran’s start-ups in int’l markets
IRNA – Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi said on Tuesday that the CIT Ministry backs presence of…
Internet outage forces Iranians to resort to old ways
Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Iranians struggled to adjust to life offline for almost a week and were forced to resort to…
Iran’s ICT minister reacts to new US sanctions imposed on him
MNA – Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said he is not the first person to be designated…
Iran internet slowly revives; US sanctions telecom minister
AP — The internet slowly trickled back on in Iran on Friday after a dayslong shutdown by authorities amid protests and unrest…
Jahromi on internet disruptions
Financial Tribune – Following nationwide protests over the overnight fuel price hike of 200%, Iranian authorities cut off the internet as of…
US carting about internet blackout in Iran, pure hypocrisy: Minister
Press TV – Iran’s minister of telecommunications has slammed remarks by a senior US diplomat about internet blackout in Iran, saying it…
Iran foils 33mn cyber attacks in one year: ICT Minister
Press TV – Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has warned of a rise in cyber…
Iran, Qatar discuss IT coop. in Doha
MNA – Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi met and held talks with Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah bin…
Iran minister says US killing of Baghdadi ‘not a big deal’: Tweet
Reuters – The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was “not a big deal”, Iran’s information minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi…
Iran ends monopoly on postal sector as first courier launches services
Press TV – Iran has officially ended its decades-long monopoly over postal services as a first major private operator launches nationwide services.…
Iran, Armenia review bilateral ICT coop.
MNA – Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi met and held talks with Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran…
Iranian official mocks John Bolton after he’s ousted from Trump’s White House
Business Insider | David Choi: An Iranian government official mocked John Bolton’s physical characteristics after the US national security adviser unceremoniously departed…
ICT min. reacts to US new sanctions on Iran’s space program
MNA – Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi reacted to a recent decision by the United States on…
Iran shows undamaged satellite to reporters, refutes US claim of failed launch
Press TV – Iran has shown Nahid 1 (Venus 1) telecommunication satellite to journalists and photographers, refuting US President Donald Trump’s claim…