Bad times for those who still hoped to count on the vpn to communicate in Iran.
Already that communication through social networks and the availability of the network are two fronts firmly started by the Iranian government, VPNs are also in the crosshairs of the latter.
After social networks and the Internet, the Iranian government attacks VPNs
While the fight has been going on for more than a month in Iran between, on the one hand, the regime in place and, on the other hand, part of the Iranian population revolting since the death of Mahsa Amini, a new stage has just been crossed. On October 20, 2022, the Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, Issa Zarepour, toughened up the tone (again), this time with regard to VPNs.
Already that the bandwidth has been reduced, and access to the Instagram and WhatsApp social networks, suspended, many VPNs, without an exhaustive list being known, would no longer be usable in Iran. While this minister had called for ” criminalize the use of a VPN on October 18, he now claims that ” Selling VPNs is illegal, efforts are being made to make it a crime “.
Always to divert attention on the real will of the government, namely to cut the whistle of the demonstrators of the country, Mr. Zarepour justifies himself in a lunar way by arguing that ” VPN software harms devices and cell phones, as it opens the way for hackers who can hack into smartphones “. Anyone who wants to will believe it.
Sources: The East – The Day, European Council, RFI
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