{"id":6455,"date":"2016-12-08T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2016-12-08T21:15:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T02:15:27","slug":"iran-bans-14-thousand-websites-and-accounts-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6455\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran bans 14 thousand websites and accounts weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6456\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6456 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016128154238580933011_The-Iranian-authorities-had-waged-a-large-campaign--300x172.jpg\" alt=\"2016128154238580933011_the-iranian-authorities-had-waged-a-large-campaign\" width=\"780\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016128154238580933011_The-Iranian-authorities-had-waged-a-large-campaign--300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016128154238580933011_The-Iranian-authorities-had-waged-a-large-campaign-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The Iranian authorities had waged a large campaign against social networking all around the country<\/span> <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Al Arabiya.net, 8 December 2016 &#8211;<\/strong>Iranian Prosecutor Ahmad Ali Montazeri, who presides the Internet censorship Committee in the country, has banned and closed 14 thousand websites and social networking accounts in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with al-Khabar Iranian channel on Tuesday, Montazeri stressed that the main reason behind this decision was the content of these websites and pages.<\/p>\n<p>Montazeri added: \u201cwe are under an attack targeting our religious and national values by foreign channels and hostile networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, human rights organizations said that the Iranian authorities are suppressing the freedom of expression because they are afraid that citizens would document and show the world the ongoing human rights abuses and public protests, as has happened in the revolution of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Prosecutor stressed that Hassan Rowhani and the Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli agree with him and have addressed \u201cserious warnings\u201d on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian authorities had waged a large campaign against social networking all around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces announced the arrest of young active men and women who were spotted by the \u201cinternet army\u201d as organizing online catwalks on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Al Arabiya.net, 8 December 2016 &#8211;Iranian Prosecutor Ahmad Ali Montazeri, who presides the Internet censorship Committee in the country, has banned and closed 14 thousand <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6455\/\" title=\"Iran bans 14 thousand websites and accounts 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