From Mandatory Identity Verification to the Promise of Net Neutrality: Iran’s Blueprint for Internet Control

Executive Summary August marked a significant structural pivot in Iran’s digital architecture as the newly released Cyberspace Regulation Plan consolidated internet governance away from the Ministry of ICT and into hardline, non-elected bodies like the Supreme Council of Cyberspace. Beneath nominal language invoking "net neutrality" and "user rights," the policy codifies a system of totalContinue reading "From Mandatory Identity Verification to the Promise of Net Neutrality: Iran’s Blueprint for Internet Control"