Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is pretty cool with social media; he has a Twitter account (although he doesn't personally tweet them). However when it comes to social media apps owned by Jews. That's right. The regime banned the social messaging site WhatsApp because the man who bought the company is a American Zionist. That man would be Mark Zuckerberg. Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, head of the Committee on Internet Crimes, said that "The reason for this is the assumption of WhatsApp by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is an American Zionist." Because social media and messaging is so popular in the country and appeals to young adults, some believe that the government fears about the exchange of information and the power of social media.
Rumors circulate that network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other blogging sites could be next in line for government censorship, or banned. Protesters have turned to social media as a means of voicing their political outrage safely. Ironically, there are several regime officials who regularly use Twitter and Facebook as a means of communication.
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Former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi taking a selfie with former President Mohammad Khatami on Instagram
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The move to potentially remove social networking period will no doubt cause outrage. On October 2012 Iran cyber police arrested 35 year Sattar Beheshti, a blogger, for crimes "against national security on social networks and Facebook." Beheshti openly criticized the government online and was found dead in his prison cell less than a month later. The government denies accusations that he was tortured to death. It's only a matter of time before the Iranian regime begins to take down all major social network sites.
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