{"id":244022,"date":"2021-07-30T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=244022"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T08:48:52","slug":"iran-internet-censorship-plan-and-regimes-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-internet-censorship-plan-and-regimes-deadlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Internet Censorship Plan and Regime\u2019s Deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-244023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-Iran-Protests-Internet-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian regime\u2019s parliament has approved the internet censorship bill in a bid to control Iran\u2019s restive society. For days there were discussions in the regime\u2019s parliament to approve this bill or not?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Tuesday, Mohammad<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2011<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Javad Azari Jahromi, the regime\u2019s Minister of Information and Communications Technology warned the regime officials about the consequences of approving this bill. But on Wednesday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the parliament speaker, said: \u201cMost of the allegations about the bill do not coincide with the reality.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cExperts and activists of the project shouldn\u2019t be influenced by untrue material before carefully examining it,\u201d\u00a0Ghalibaf\u00a0added. Later, another MP revealed that the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s \u201cattention made the internet protection plan serious.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But since the regime\u2019s parliament has approved this bill, the regime\u2019s insiders have expressed fear of people\u2019s reaction once the internet censorship plan is implemented.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s cyberwarfare headquarters warned the regime officials on Friday. \u201cDear MPs, do not toggle the grenade. This grenade would blow in the hands of the 13th government,\u201d the so-called Amar headquarters announced on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIf you deprive people of the social media, you should wait for people to pour on streets,\u201d wrote the state-run\u00a0Chansanieh\u00a0news on telegram.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/2077cfe36d0d\/mvalhuta4du\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-protests-in-tehran-shows-societys-restiveness\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Protests<\/a> erupted in Khuzestan on July 15 due to water shortages. In less than a couple of days, these protests became political with people calling for regime change, and soon this call spread across Iran.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Instead of addressing people\u2019s demands, the regime accelerated the approval of the internet censorship plan as a part of its oppression measures in Khuzestan and other cities. During the major Iran protest in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2019<\/a> and the recent protests in Khuzestan, the regime imposed an internet blackout before starting a massacre.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The presentation of the plan in the open session of the parliament coincided with the uprising in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/khuzestan-water-crisis-protests-20210728\" rel=\"noopener\">Khuzestan<\/a>. Therefore, to avoid its explosive consequences, the regime\u2019s MPs decided to refer the plan to the Parliamentary Cultural Commission under Article 58 of the regime\u2019s Constitution, through which it was secretly approved and passed to the Guardian Council.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWhile people are suffering from water shortages, heat, power outages, skyrocketing prices, inflation, lack of vaccines, and bread and butter these days, what is happening in parliament?\u201d\u00a0Chansanieh\u00a0adds.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime officials are fully aware of Iran\u2019s restive society. They have also heard people in dozen Iranian cities chanting \u201cDown with the dictator\u201d and \u201cdeath to Khamenei,\u201d and they fear people\u2019s reaction.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Besides, the Iranian Resistance activities have increased in recent days. On one night alone, the defiant Iranian youth carried targeted 70 centers of oppression across Iran.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei and his regime try to control the restive society by limiting or even disconnecting the internet. Yet, he is in a deadlock. If it does ban the internet, it would spark protests and result in another major uprising. It does not implement this plan; the protests would spread across Iran and intensify.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now the question is whether Khamenei and his regime \u201ctoggle the grenade\u201d by implementing this plan or fail in implementing this plan, fearing people\u2019s uprising.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime is in a deadlock, and no matter what step it takes, protests continue to spread and intensify. And this fact has been confirmed during the recent protests in Khuzestan and other cities across Iran.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime&rsquo;s parliament has approved the internet censorship bill in a bid to control Iran&rsquo;s restive society. 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