Cutting off Internet and filtering social media to prevent the spread of uprising and release of its news
Cutting off Internet and filtering social media to prevent the spread of uprising and release of its news 1/3/2018 11:56:27 PM National Council of Resistance of Iran Iran Uprising – No.29 On the seventh day of the Iranian people uprising, and a few days after the religious fascism ruling Iran filtered many social networks, and cut off or severely restricted access to Internet in many areas, the IRGC commander Jafari said: 'Failure to control over cyberspace, which is managed overseas, and the officials’ failure in controlling this space, aggravated the turmoil; but when cyberspace was controlled, we saw a decrease in sedition.' (Fars News Agency-affiliated to IRGC - Jan. 3). On Sunday, December 31st, on the fourth day of the uprising, the state Mehr news agency quoted Ismail Jabbarzadeh, political deputy of the interior minister, as saying, 'in recent days ... some social networks in cyberspace have gone out of access,” adding, “When we are fa...