CENSORSHIP IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

There is no doubt that Iran has one of the most extensive technical filtering and internet censorship system in the globe.In this country with a civilized history and more than 70 million population which has a great deal of high graduated individuals in its recent generations,a committee of government officials and a few members of intelligent services and judiciary make decision on blocking and filtering of websites.Telecommunications ministry is operator of filtering in Iran.After recent presidential election,Internet censorship were intensified in Iran.Most of writers,journalists,intellects, university students and lecturers,internet users and opposite politicians have increasingly protested to these kind of "technology-blocking" in Iran,although government tries to ignore these protests.Iranian internet users often get around the filtering by anti-filter software,but it is not always very easy to get access to blocked websites by this means.