Censorship and Censor; A Journey Traveled / Seyed Mohammad Sahafi

1- In 43, I was six years old when they took me to Savak Qom to visit my father who was in temporary detention at the branch of this organization on Station Street in Qom. They had taken him there to punish and intimidate him because he had been selling and distributing the banned book […]...

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The home viewing network, the latest victim of suppression / Marzieh Mohabbey.

In Iran, when television was under the monopoly of the government, all windows of critical thinking were closed and all avenues of influence for thoughts, beliefs, and existing discourses were obsessively blocked. As an arm of the security apparatus, it also took on the mission of suppressing the government’s opposition. Some speakers and journalists were […]...

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Is the national information network beneficial for Iranians? / Hossein Torkashvand

[/caption] I’m sorry, but there is no Farsi text provided. Can you please provide the Farsi text so I can translate it for you? Thank you. Hossein Tarakashvand National Internet or National Information Network is a project that was supposed to be completed by the end of 2016 according to the Fifth Development Plan and […]...

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Does the dream of unlimited and free access to information come true?; A conversation with Mehdi Yahyanejad, the director of the Toseh project/ Siavash Khoramgah

The “Toushe” project, which has recently been launched, has provided users with the ability to receive and transfer video, text, and other digital content mostly available on the internet through a satellite channel of the same name to their computers. This method of sending and receiving information has been launched for the first time in […]...

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