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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Iran Internet ban

A WhatsApp icon is displayed on an iPhone. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
December 24, 2024, 7:50 pm
Iran votes to lift ban on WhatsApp, Google Play
Facebook, X, YouTube, Telegram remain blocked as 136 lawmakers pen letter warning lifting ban on WhatsApp would be a ‘gift to Iran’s enemies’
By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with the President Masoud Pezeshkian's administration, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
August 27, 2024, 6:07 pm
Iran’s Khamenei urges new government to impose tighter cyberspace controls
Supreme leader’s demand comes despite campaign promise by new president Pezeshkian to ease the longstanding internet restrictions
By AFP and Reuters
Iranians who live in Brazil protest against the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who died in Iran while in police custody, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, September 23, 2022. (AP/Andre Penner)
September 23, 2022, 10:49 pm
US moves to ease internet access for protesting Iranians
Lifting of restrictions unlikely to have immediate impact on Tehran’s efforts to block demonstrations from reaching outside world; Starlink satellites offered by Musk not included
By AFP
Ali Hedieloo takes a photo of his product to post on social media at his furniture workshop in the southern suburbs of Tehran, Iran, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 4, 2021, 7:24 pm
New legislation in Iran stokes fears of even further restricted internet
Tehran moved last week toward further government control of Instagram and other apps with draft bill that some worry could wipe out their livelihoods
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Isabel Debre
Iranian protesters block a road during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the central city of Shiraz on November 16, 2019. (AFP)
March 9, 2021, 10:39 am
Rights groups say Iran using internet shutdowns to curb protests
Organizations claim Tehran preventing use of social media to mobilize demonstrators and hindering documentation of rights violations
By Stuart Williams
A screen capture from unverified video on social media shows an anti-regime protest in the Iranian city of Behbahan on July 16, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)
July 17, 2020, 12:10 pm
Internet disrupted in Iranian province as anti-regime demonstration held
Behbahan police chief says security forces forcefully dispersed protest over ‘norm-breaking’ slogans; video shows demonstrators chanting ‘No Gaza, no Lebanon, I will die for Iran’
By Agencies
A bike-delivery food messenger stands next to another man as they both use smartphones along the side of a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 23, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
November 23, 2019, 3:23 pm
Internet access rapidly being restored in Iran — advocacy group
Following weeklong government-imposed shutdown amid protests, NetBlocks says connectivity has now reached 60%
By AP
In this July 7, 2019 photo, Iran's telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi is interviewed by The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
July 10, 2019, 1:13 pm
Rising young star of Iranian politics defends past career in intelligence
Mohammad Jahromi oversees Tehran’s satellite program, accused by US of serving as cover for experiments on intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)
December 7, 2015, 11:01 pm
Iran says 53 Islamic State-linked arrests made since 2014
Head of Tehran’s cyber police says 132 websites shut down, extremist group’s activities disrupted
By AFP
Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
September 8, 2014, 9:08 pm
Seven in 10 Iranian youths online illegally, says report
Study comes just one day after President Rouhani says existing Internet restrictions are counterproductive
By AFP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in the capital Tehran on June 14, 2014 (Photo credit: Atta Kenare/AFP)
September 2, 2014, 6:45 am
Rouhani urges greater internet freedom in Iran
President calls on clerics not to shun new technology, for the sake of the nation’s young generation
By ToI Staff and AP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (photo credit: AP/John Minchillo/File)
March 8, 2014, 2:40 pm
Iran president condemns hard-line media crackdown
Rouhani says shutting down newspapers that allegedly questioned Islamic principles ‘should be the last resort’
By AP and AFP
File: A blindfolded man waits to be hanged in public as two police officers look on in Shiraz, Iran, April 16, 2011. (AP/Mehr News Agency/Mohammad Hadi Khosravi)
October 24, 2013, 3:23 am
UN reports widespread human rights abuses in Iran
New document cites rise in number of jailed journalists, censorship of 5 million websites and persecution of minorities
By Alexandra Olson
Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
September 17, 2013, 12:48 pm
Iran restores blocks on Facebook, Twitter
‘Technical glitch’ that briefly removed filters from social networks quickly rectified — again making Iranian followers unable to access sites
By AP
March 12, 2013, 2:05 pm
Iran reportedly blocks VPN access to Gmail, Yahoo
Virtual private networks, illegal in Iran, offered a path for Iranians to freely use the Internet
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