According to theverge reports, the Iranian government also seems to intend to ban Telegram in the country, and just a few days ago, Russia enacted the Telegram ban. In fact, earlier this year, Iran temporarily suspended Telegram and Instagram. Telegram is an encrypted instant messaging application that can also be used by news organizations and even government agencies.
It is reported that this application has 40 million users in Iran, and the country’s Internet users are only about 50 million, visible Telegram’s popularity in this country.
On Wednesday, local Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei stated that in order to curb Telegram’s “monopoly,” government agencies will no longer be able to use Telegram. Khamenei published the news on his personal Telegram channel, so Telegram has an absolute monopoly in the country.
The Guardian reported that apart from curbing Telegram, the Iranian government has another purpose – to support its own social media applications. Although Khamenei’s message hinted at the forthcoming Telegram ban, Mahsa Alimardani, a Ph.D. student at the Oxford Internet Research Institute, stated that as far as the Iranian government really wants to close Telegram in the future, it is still uncertain, but it is obviously more than any other time. may.
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Alimardani pointed out that the Iranian government has been particularly blunt about the issue of communications. In January this year, it temporarily suspended Telegram.
At present, the Iranian government has at least begun to try to transfer its domestic users to local communication platforms such as iGap, Soroush, and Gap.
It is understood that the Russian side adopted the IP blocking of the Google and Amazon cloud services in the United States when implementing the Telegram ban, which caused the IP addresses of millions of Telegrams to be affected. It is still unclear whether Iran will adopt similar measures.
