BBC- Iran has put limits on who can play the popular Clash of Clans mobile game. A government committee called for restrictions citing a report from psychologists, who said it encouraged violence and tribal conflict. The app could also negatively affect family life if teenagers got addicted to the game, warned the committee that polices cyberspace....

The Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content (CDICC) is not a made-up commission, however awkward it sounds. It actually exists. And those on the commission do not want even high-level officials, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, to use Facebook. In a thinly-veiled criticism of Zarif, secretary of the commission, Abdolsamad ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have restored blocks on Facebook and Twitter after a "technical glitch" briefly removed filters from the social networks overnight. The semi-official Mehr news agency quotes Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, from the board overseeing Internet in Iran, as saying the removal of the blocks was a technical failure that was ...

NasimAn 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 cabineton Wednesday in a bid to weigh up legal aspects of disregarding the norms of the Islamic Republic in the pages. Disregarding Islamic Republics norms, ...