Science and Technology

CHRI – After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of internet use in the country by forcing government agencies to use domestic, state-approved online search engines.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Information and Communication Technology Minister announced that based on an order issued by the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, his ministry has started blocking anti-filtering programs or internet filtering circumvention tools, as they are known.

CHRI – Telegram is Crucial to Accessing Information in Iran and Must Be Unblocked

CHRI – Six Iranian lawyers have presented a legal challenge to a recent judicial order blocking access in Iran to the widely used Telegram messaging and social media app, Telegram.

Radiofarda – Billions of dollars in business deals between Iran and European companies inked after the 2015 nuclear agreement lifted sanctions on the Islamic Republic are now in jeopardy after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement May 8.

Radiofarda – Despite a ban on the popular messaging application Telegram, Iranians continue using the app, resorting to circumvention techniques, including virtual private networks, VPNs, and anti-filtering software, a recent survey conducted by Radio Farda shows.

CHRI – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned that during the first two weeks of April 2018, hackers attempted to take over the email and social media accounts of several well-known Iranians and dual nationals working for charitable and academic organizations.

Iran-HRM – 70,000 Arrested on Cybernetic Activities in Iran Kamal Hadyanfar, head of FATA (Cyber Police) said 70,000 people have been arrested in Iran on cybernetic charges. “30,186 criminal channels and groups have been identified in Telegram including 23,000 channels of immoral activities, 650 anti-religious, anti-Islam and Quran channels….51% of immoral crimes is committed at Telegram, 23% at Instagram and …

Al-Monitor -The running joke on Iranian social media right now is that three green ticks on a domestic messaging app mean that not only does the sender and receiver read the message, but an intelligence officer does too. Iranians heavily relied on Telegram as a form of censorship-free internet not only to chat, but to shop, share parody videos and …

RFL/RE – Two Iranian IT experts have launched a modified version of Telegram to help their countrymen get around Tehran’s latest attempt to block the wildly popular messaging app.