Iran Dismisses French Warning About Its Missile Program
radiofarda - Iran has dismissed a warning from the French foreign minister that if talks on Iran’s missile program fail,…
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How Iran has moved to defrock ‘Instagram cleric’
Al-Monitor - On Jan. 12, Seyed Hasan Aghamirii, a popular Iranian cleric, posted on his Instagram account that he had been sentenced to…
Iranian Startups Offer Opportunities In An Unstable Economy
Radiofarda - The past decade in Iran has witnessed a surge in the number of startups, larger Internet companies, and…
Iran Announces Failure Of Satellite Launch
RFL/RE - Iran said it conducted a satellite launch but that the rocket failed to reach orbit. (more…)
Iranian scientist Baharvand among winners of 2019 TWAS Prize
PayvandNews - Hossein Baharvand, an eminent Iranian scientist, won The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) 2019 prize in biology, ISNA news agency…
Judicial Official Announces Order to Block Instagram Less Than a Year After Banning Telegram Messaging App
CHRI - Judicial Order Tied to Previously Undeclared Policy of App Usage Level Eight months after Iran blocked the country’s most widely…
Instagram Next Up For Iranian Censorship?
RFL/RE - A senior Iranian official has said the country is prepared to block Instagram once authorities sign off, a…
Twenty Thousand PhD Graduates Are Unemployed In Iran
Radiofarda - Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology for educational affairs says 20,000 Ph.D. holders in Iran are…
Iran Hackers Targeted Nuclear Scientists, U.S. Officials
Radiofarda - According to a cyber security research lab Certfa Iran backed hackers targeted U.S. government officials, think-tank employees and nuclear scientists…
Why Did Telegram Warn Users That Iranian Versions of the Telegram App—Talaeii and Hotgram—Are “Unsafe”?
CHRI - Iranian Client Apps Are Violating Telegram’s Terms of Service by Failing to Protect User Data (more…)