U.S. Charges Two Iranians Over ‘Cyberintrusion Campaign’
RFL/RE - U.S. prosecutors say they have indicted two Iranians on allegations they were hackers connected with a “coordinated cyberintrusion…
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Judge Responsible For Filtering Internet Sentenced For Corruption
Radiofarda - A former investigator judge with the Tehran Prosecutor's Office, Bijan Qassemzadeh Sangroudi, is sentenced to "permanent dismissal from…
Iran’s Military To Get Involved In Messenger Apps
Radiofarda - The Islamic Republic Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ITC), Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, says the General Staff of…
Security Official Threatens More Internet Censorship As Iran Moves Towards Intranet
Radiofarda - Abolhassan Firoozabadi, the secretary of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace (ISCC), says that if Internet platforms are not…
Iran Looks To China For Development Of Intranet
Radiofarda - The head of the Council and Internal Affairs Commission of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Saleh Jokar, says that…
Iran’s Efforts To Deny People Information And Entertainment Are Futile
Radiofarda - Iranian society has been fighting systematic censorship for over four decades; from the ban on videotapes in 1980s,…
Iran Proposes Bill For Tighter Online Censorship, ‘Military Control’ Of Internet
RFL/RE - A group of 40 Iranian lawmakers has submitted a controversial draft bill to the parliament that could result…
Iran Says Home-Grown Search Engine Project Has Failed
Radiofarda - Iran's Telecommunications Minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi on Wednesday admitted that "as shown by the incidents in November" the…
Iran Lawmakers Aim To Fully Ban All ‘Foreign’ Messaging Apps
Radiofarda - Dozens of lawmakers in Iran have signed a motion to replace foreign messaging apps with domestically produced ones.…
Iran Armed Forces To Reciprocate ‘Cyber-Threats’ Even If Political, Social Or Cultural, Statement Says
Radiofarda - Iran's Armed Forces General Command said in a statement on Monday that cyber-threats from "any government, group or…