Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App
CHRI - Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in Iran (more…)
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Iranians Reluctant To Switch To Regime-backed Apps
Radiofarda - Despite the Islamic Republic’s official ban on the popular messaging app Telegram, few Iranian users have closed their…
NAJA Confronts Café Nets Using Anti-Filters
Iran-HRM - Mehdi Mir-Mehdi the head of Tehran’s Computer Techs Guild Union cited the increase in use of anti-filters during…
How US sanctions will impact Iranian startups
Al-Monitor — On May 8, US President Donald Trump finally carried out his threat to pull out of the nuclear…
Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App
CHRI - Three weeks after Iran banned the widely used Telegram messaging app, the telecommunications minister posted a chart online…
Iranian Officials Call For Unblocking Twitter
RFL/RE - Six Iranian ministers and two lawmakers, all members of the state committee in charge of blocking websites, have…
Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines
CHRI - After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of…
Iranian Starts Blocking Internet Filtering Circumvention Tools
Radiofarda - Iran’s Information and Communication Technology Minister announced that based on an order issued by the Supreme Council of…
Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram
CHRI - Telegram is Crucial to Accessing Information in Iran and Must Be Unblocked (more…)
Six Lawyers in Iran File Petition Challenging Ban on Popular Telegram App
CHRI - Six Iranian lawyers have presented a legal challenge to a recent judicial order blocking access in Iran to…