Government Tightens Control, Ignoring Experts’ Calls for Global Engagement and Open Internet

At a September 16 press conference, Masoud Pezeshkian spoke of his administration’s plan to reform the framework for filtering, a proposal he also raised at the Supreme Security Council. However, in practice, a different outcome has emerged.  Recent network developments have seen widespread outages due to the Infrastructure Communications Company’s monopoly on internet service provision.Continue reading “Government Tightens Control, Ignoring Experts’ Calls for Global Engagement and Open Internet”