Iran Bans State Bodies From Using Telegram App, Khamenei Shuts Account (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:40AM from the my-way-or-highway dept.

Iran banned government bodies on Wednesday from using the popular Telegram instant messaging app as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office said his account would shut down to protect national security, Iranian media reported. From a report: ISNA news agency did not give a reason for the government ban on the service which lets people send encrypted messages and has an estimated 40 million users in the Islamic Republic. The order came days after Russia -- Iran's ally in the Syrian war -- started blocking the app in its territory following the company's repeated refusal to give Russian state security services access to users' secret messages. Iran's government banned "all state bodies from using the foreign messaging app," according to ISNA.

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Glad all these countries are banning it by brucekeller · 2018-04-18 02:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Because I didn't even know about it until then... now that you can pirate stuff on it too? I might just use it. Thanks Russia and Iran!
Well, duh... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2018-04-18 02:51 · Score: 3, Funny

Wikipedia tells me that Telegram doesn't have prophet in mind. Iranians must have been offended by that.

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