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Under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whom the protesters are calling on to step down, the Iranian government has censored state-run television and restricted access to independent internet service and Internet censorship in Iran| - YouTube Mar 09, 2018 U.S. Sanctions Abet Iranian Internet Censorship – Foreign Jan 22, 2018 Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government May 18, 2018

Internet Censorship in Iran: A First Look

May 18, 2018 · Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of internet use in the country by forcing government agencies to use domestic, state-approved online search Nov 05, 2019 · In 2018 and 2019, internet freedom in Iran remained highly restricted, according to a new report by Freedom House. Authorities “handed down harsh prison sentences to online journalists and other users, and continued to block access to independent news sites and a number of social media and communication platforms.” In this paper, we examine the status of Internet censorship in Iran based on network measurements conducted from a major Iranian ISP during the lead up to the June 2013 presidential election. We measure the scope of the censorship by probing Alexa’s top 500 websites in 18 different categories.

Internet censorship in Iran is quite sophisticated. block both the HTTP and HTTPS versions of sites by serving blockpages through DNS injection and through the use of HTTP transparent proxies. Most ISPs not only block the same sites, but also use a standardized set of censorship techniques, suggesting a centralized censorship apparatus.

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