It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.

Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.

Thank you.

 

Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.

 

Iranian Internet users face blockage during coming election

page: 1
0

log in

join
share:

posted on Mar, 3 2008 @ 05:04 PM
link   

Iranian Internet users face blockage during coming election


www.iht.com

The Iranian government might block private access to the Internet for the general legislative election on March 14, two Iranian news outlets reported Monday.

But the two accounts appeared to differ on the rationale. "Shutting down the Internet service will depend on security plans and on the Ministry of Telecommunication," said Mostafa Pourmohammadi, the interior minister, according to Etemad Melli, a daily.

At the same time, a senior election official, Muhammad Javad Mahmoudi, said a shutdown would help ensure that the government had unimpeded Internet service for the election, even though the governments' Internet lines had been upgraded, according to ISNA.
(visit the link for the full news article)



posted on Mar, 3 2008 @ 05:04 PM
link   
They want to shut down the internet? So they can control what is going out of the country at a critical time in their rigged elections? This does not make sense for the reasons they are giving.

www.iht.com
(visit the link for the full news article)



new topics
 
0

log in

join