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NCRI –\u00a0The debate over Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging service, in Iran was highlighted when the controversial news about the imminent filtering of Telegram was announced by Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of the National Security Commission of Iranian regime\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n
Boroujerdi announced on Saturday, March 31, that the decision to filter Telegram by April 20 was taken \u201cat the highest level\u201d of the regime, and one day later, in defense of his statement, said: \u201cTelegram is part of the security threats of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
The secretary of the regime’s cybersecurity council last night, during a conversation with the regime’s \u201cNews network\u201d, considered the threat of Telegram \u201cnot only a security but also an economic threat,\u201d further strengthening suspicious intention of the government officials to block the instant messaging system.<\/p>\n
Following on from this discussion, a newspaper has announced the mobilization of five networks of the Islamic Republic\u2019s Broadcasting (IRIB) against cyberspace.<\/p>\n
The state-run Jomhuri Islami, in its issue on April 5, noted the discussion on cyberspace as \u201cone of the most important social debates in 2018\u201d and wrote that the efforts to close the \u201cloophole\u201d of cyberspace for small private companies are not random or \u201cby accident\u201d.<\/p>\n
The newspaper proposes a few sobering questions and writes: “Why no one does speak of the benefits and rewards of this definite reality of today\u2019s world? Why should five IRIB networks be mobilized against it? Why do they impose a television program forcing the TV host to ask their famous guests to send a message about cybercrime damage, and they say a few words reluctantly and as clich\u00e9?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jomhuri Islami newspaper considers the problem with the Telegram filtering fans as \u201cineffective in dealing with the scientific achievements of the world,\u201d and writes about the replacement of Telegram with internal messenger: \u201cThe propaganda about the use of the internal information network comes at a time when reliable news shows that its custodians have easy access to all personal information of users, and without any sense of security, no wise person enters this environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Confessing to the general discontent with filtering the Telegram messaging service, the newspaper writes: \u201cIn a year when the government needs more support than ever, filtering Telegram will not be anything but general dissatisfaction and public discontent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abolhassan Firoozabadi, secretary of the regime\u2019s supreme cyberspace council, went beyond the head of the parliament\u2019s National Security Commission, speaking not only on security threats but also on the “economic threats” of Telegram to Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cTelegram wants to become an insurance company, an agency of transactions in our country, and an instrument for exchanging money and pursuing transactions between the two parties, whether legally or illegally,\u201d Firoozabadi said adding, \u201cTelegram is becoming a virtual pyramid company.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also called Telegram \u201cthe enemy of the private sector,\u201d and said: \u201cTelegram has accumulated $2 billion in Aiko’s method from the capitalists in the United States. Telegram should tell who are their shareholders. Why, while it has the most users in Iran and has a monopoly, it has not invited private sector investors while such money is related (belongs) to our country. “<\/p>\n
The clamor of the secretariat of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace about Telegraph for not inviting the private sector stated at a time when the pulse of the Iranian economy is not in the hands of the private sector, but in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated companies, a military institution that is not accountable to anyone and there is no control over its activities and all attempts to curtail its economic activities has always failed.<\/p>\n
The economic activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) cover all areas and although its commanders have repeatedly claimed that its affiliated companies only implement large-scale projects that the private sector is not able to do, contrary to this claim, Khattam-ol Anbiya (the IRGC\u2019s) headquarters with dozens of affiliated companies have taken up thousands of small and medium-sized projects that could be taken up and implemented by the private sector.<\/p>\n
The rule of the IRGC on Iran’s politics and economy is such that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani once said that the \u201cIRGC is no longer satisfied with less than the entire country.\u201d Hassan Rouhani had complained about \u201cthe government with a gun,\u201d and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once described the Revolutionary Guards as “our own smuggler brothers.”<\/p>\n
Clearly, with such a domination of the economy, all competitors will be eliminated and there will not be a space for the true activity of the private sector.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Council of Cyberspace was formed on March 7, 2012, upon the order of Ali Khamenei, the regime’s supreme leader, with the task of launching the National Center for Cyberspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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