Visiting scholars and religious students of Qom Seminary, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, thehead of Expediency Council,denounced world powers dishonesty in recent nuclear talks in Moscow. Referring to Iran's nuclear case and several rounds of Iran-P5+1 talks, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani stated that the talks showed that the West does ...

Irans Judiciary hasorderedthe ministry of communications to block social networking services such as Viber, Tango and WhatsApp over dissemination of derogatory content. Irans Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei demanded that the ministry, in line with an order issued by Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, take immediate ...

TEHRAN - A revolutionary court in Iran has jailed eight young people for a total of 127 years for anti-regime posts on Facebook, media reported on Monday. The eight, whose names were not given, were jailed for "acting against national security, anti-regime propaganda and insulting religious values and Iranian leaders," the reports said, without elaborating....

Iranian MP Ali Motahari says the censorship of Persian-language networks is not right and should be avoided. IRNA reports that Motahari said: We cannot restrict societys access to news because of security reasons. He added, however, that immoral websites should be blocked. A committee comprised of officials from several Iranian government bodies ...

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TEHRAN, June 18 (MNA) A member of Committee for Determining Examples of Criminal Web Content has said the Committee has no plan to filter the social networks. The member, who wanted to remain anonymous, told Mehr News that some social networks including WhatsApp and Instagram would not subject to blocking. He pointed to presidents concerns ...

TEHRAN, June 15 (MNA) The head of Expediency Discernment Council of the System has said those who have no place in hearts of people are devoid of reason. Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was addressing the meeting of a group of university students and political activists yesterday (Saturday), said that avoiding political strife was a rule of ...

An Iranian court has sentenced eight people to jail terms ranging from seven to 20 years for crimes including anti-regime propaganda posted on Facebook, an opposition website has said. Kaleme, which did not cite a source for its report, said the sentences were delivered last week giving the eight Facebook users a combined 123 years in jail. They ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A judge in southern Iran has ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications Instagram and Whatsapp violate their privacy, semiofficial news agency ISNA reported Tuesday. It quoted an official with the paramilitary Basij force, as saying ...

More than one hundred journalist and cyber activists have protested the performance of Irans filtering committee, Mehr reported. In a statement issuedon Saturday, these activists protested the increasing pressure on cyber media over the past few months. The statement described the existence of multiple authorities in the field of cyber content ...

[caption id="attachment_6333" align="alignright" width="300"] Iran has blocked Webzzz social network[/caption] Iran has blocked the Persian-language website of the Voice of Russia, which is financed by the Russian government, the international broadcaster has said in a statement. Internet users in the Islamic Republic can only access the website ...