IFP | Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi: The global reactions to the temporary restriction of social media in Iran amid the recent unrest raises a serious question for Iranian people: if the freedom of Internet is so much important for other countries, why dont we see any major reaction to the anti-Iran technology sanctions? Use of this service is restricted ...

Implementing the second phase of the smart filtering system will be launched in the next two months, according to Mahmoud Vaezi, the Islamic Republics communications and information technology minister Iran's ISNA news agency reported May 4. It is not clear which social networks the new phase will cover, he added. The first phase of the project ...

Irans Minister of Communications says a significant budget has been set aside for launching the so-called National Internet and it remains one of his ministrys top priorities. Mahmoud Vaezi said: The National Information Network (National Internet) is a formidable undertaking, and our government has allotted a large budget to it and will realize it ...

The head of Irans military, explaining Tehrans distrust of the US Government, has said that Zionists are controlling Americas leaders through their hold on information. General Hassan Firouzabadi (pictured) saidon Wednesday, Due to the influence and dominance of Zionists over the US power structure, the information channels of US officials are under ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Zarif, Ashton meet for nuclear talks: Mann Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the outgoing European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton have started a meeting in Belgiums capital of Brussels for talks on Tehrans peaceful nuclear program, said Michael Mann, ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's president Monday urged the country's clerics to be more tolerant of the Internet and new technologies, which are often the target of criticism by influential hard-liners in the Islamic Republic. Hassan Rouhani made the appeal during a meeting with clerics in Tehran, where he said that the Internet is important for aspiring ...

[caption id="attachment_97840" align="alignright" width="218"] Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian prosecutor has denied reports that a local judge ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications ...

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 ...

TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) A member of Committee for Determining Examples of Criminal Web Content has said government endorses criminal content filtering. Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Reza Aqamiri told Mehr News in the meeting of the Committee that contrary to what had been told in some media outlets, the government representatives had a positive cooperation ...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani said websites banned in his country includingFacebook Inc. (FB)andGoogle Inc. (GOOG)s YouTube are part of a great change that his nation should be included in as every citizen has the right to access the Internet. In a speech at a conference on information and communication technologies in Tehran today, Rouhani said ...

Iran plans to loosen Internet censorship by introducing smart filtering which only keeps out sites the Islamic government considers immoral, Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday. Internet use is high in Iran, partly because many young Iranians turn to it to bypass an official ban on Western cultural products, and Tehran occasionally ...

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Irans minister of communications says the committee for determining criminal content on the web has met to discuss the new administrations policies in order to reach consensus on which sites will be subject to filtering. The Fars News Agency reports that the minister announced that the meeting was constructive, with the members agreeing that anti-...

For approximately 12 hours,Instagrambecame the latest apparent victim ofIran's Internet censorship system commonly known as the "Filternet." The blocking of Instagram was initially reported by Iranian netizens early Sunday, and later confirmed by independent researchers. Instagram appeared to be the latest casualty of Iran's most recent online clampdown ...

Iranian Committee for Determining Criminal Web Content has made the decision to block access to WeChat, managing director of Iran's Telecommunication Infrastructure Company, Mahmoud Khosravi said, Fars news agency reported on Dec. 21. The WeChat Application enables smart phone users to use social networks. The application has been filtered in many ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's culture minister has again spoken up in defense of social media, saying Facebook shouldn't be banned and that it's not a "criminal application." Ali Jannatitold the semi-official Fars news agency on Friday that he uses and posts on Facebook and that an overseer body should lift the existing ban. In the past, Jannati has ...

SUMMARY:Economy Minister Ali Tayyebniahas issued a warningover thoughts that an agreement on Irans nuclear program with the US and other countries will lead to immediate economic recovery: To think that sanctions will be lifted in the near future and all problems will be solved is a false dream. Even if there is progress in the negotiations and oil ...

Outline of nuclear deal begins to emerge before UN debut as president says people should 'be completely free in private life' PresidentHassan Rouhanihas signalled his intention to lead a newIranon to the international stage at the United Nations next week, laying out a manifesto for personal freedom at home and compromise abroad. "We want the ...

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 ...

A hardline backlash always looms large over any attempt by a new government in Tehran to present itself as one that the West can talk to. President Hassan Rouhani has already found that the greatest challenge to public diplomacy is an apparent lack of discipline, rather than a lack of influential allies or favourable laws in a country where Facebook ...