{"id":13741,"date":"2013-05-19T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/13741-iran-the-election-comes-the-internet-goes"},"modified":"2023-01-14T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:59:35","slug":"iran-the-election-comes-the-internet-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-the-election-comes-the-internet-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: &#8220;The election comes, The Internet goes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"iran-internet\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-39989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/iran-internet.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" width=\"308\" height=\"200\" \/>AFP &#8211; Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month&#8217;s presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities deny such claims, but have not explained exactly why service has become slower.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses, banks and even state organisations are not spared by the widespread disruption in the Internet, local media say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Internet is in a coma,&#8221; said the Ghanoon daily in a report in early this month. &#8220;It only happens in Iran: the election comes, the Internet goes,&#8221; it said, quoting a tweet in Farsi.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and numerous other sites,including thousands of Western ones, have been censored in Iran since massive street demonstrations that followed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Those protests &#8212; stifled by a heavy-handed crackdown that led to numerous arrests and even deaths &#8212; were instigated online and observers say the authorities are choking the Internet to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP &ndash; Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month&rsquo;s presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say. 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