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NCRI – On the verge of the sham presidential elections, the mullahs\u2019 regime has taken various steps to disconnect or limit Internet and phone communications. In this regard on May 4th Internet speed in Iran was severely slowed and methods of bypassing filtering and accessing websites outside of Iran were deactivated.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, a large portion of mobile phone networks have become distorted starting May 8th. Iran\u2019s mobile phone company is refusing to respond in this regard by merely saying, \u201cWe haven\u2019t witnessed any special problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to this, Mehdi Akhavan Beh-Abadi, secretary of the mullahs\u2019 Cyberspace High Council, had described \u201cbypassing filtering software to access social networks in the Internet as a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Internet use is only possible through IPs registered by the communications company belonging to the Revolutionary Guards, in order to have control over the users\u2019 cyber activities.<\/p>\n
The regime\u2019s repressive organ known as the FATA Police (Iran\u2019s cyberpolice) has recently issued a regulation conditioning any use of the Internet on presenting a national code and user passwords. Owners of all Internet cafes are obligated to register full specifications of all customers. Otherwise the Internet caf\u00e9 will be shut down. Furthermore, installing any anti-filtering software on the computers and withholding any anti-filtering software to access filtered sites, or introducing anti-filtering sites to users have all been banned.<\/p>\n
Following the 2009 uprising, in order to prevent another outburst of the people\u2019s wrath, the mullahs\u2019 senior officials have allocated a high number of IRGC members to identify Internet users in measures dubbed \u201cconfronting the soft war\u201d. According to Mohammad Ali Asoudi, IRGC deputy of cultural and propaganda affairs, \u201c20,000 men of the IRGC are active in various cultural areas to confront the soft war.\u201d He said these measures are taking place in \u201cimplementing the supreme leader\u2019s orders on confronting the soft war\u201d. (State-run Bahar daily \u2013 2 January 2013)<\/p>\n
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 10, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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