Iran's Vice Declares Internet Blockades Failed

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Iran's First Vice President declared the massive Internet blockades in the country to have failed. "The approach of banning technology is not working," Mohammad Reza Aref said at a meeting with clergymen on Tuesday, as reported by the state news agency IRNA. So-called tunnel services (VPN) had destroyed control of the virtual space.

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Iran's Internet is subject to strict censorship. In the first weeks of the war and during the mass protests, the population was completely cut off from the web.

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Iran's First Vice-President, Mohammad Reza Aref, criticized the Government's comprehensive Internet cut-off policies, such as those applied during the war with the United States and Israel, describing them as a failed strategy, according to official media, today. The Islamic Republic Agency of News, Erna, said today, in a meeting with clergy in the city of Qom, that "a technology ban approach is not working."

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Iran's Vice-President Asef takes stock: "More damage to the economy than benefits in war and in mitigating anti-regime protests through Internet barriers."