Blog Details

Iranian Government Blocks Facebook, Other Websites

In the past few days, Ahmadinejad's government has blocked access to Facebook, Twitter, the online newsletter of the student union at Amir Kabir University in Teheran, and the Iranian news website Fararu, in an apparent attempt to obstruct the campaigns in support of Ahmadinejad's rivals in the upcoming presidential elections.

Source: Roz Al-Yousef (Iran), May 24, 2009; ILNA (Iran), May 23, 2009; Amir Kabir University Newsletter (Iran), May 23, 2009

Share:
  • Print version
About The MEMRI Blog

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Blog features brief news items from Arabic-, Farsi-, Urdu-, Pashtu- and Turkish-language news media sources.

Read on