Nasim— An official with the state-run body in charge of online filtering and cyber crimes has said the body will consider contents of social network pages belonging to members of the government cabinet on Wednesday in a bid to weigh up legal aspects of disregarding the norms of the Islamic Republic in the pages.
Disregarding Islamic Republic’s norms, a number of government cabinet members run active pages on Facebook and Twitter, two social networks banned in Iran.

In a recent tweet, Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif defied Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s stance of holocaust, saying “Iran has never denied” the holocaust and the “man who denied it is gone.”

The tweet sparked immediate reactions from Iranian and international media.

Speaking with semi-official Fars News Agency, Abdolsamad Khoramabadi said there are reports about spreading illegal content in the pages which need to be screened by a legal panel under the commission which is due every Wednesday.

“They have fabricated a legend, under the name Massacre of the Jews, and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves … If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody denies the myth of the massacre of Jews, the Zionist loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of Zionism will start to scream,” once said Ahmadinejad.

By Nasim Online

 

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