An Iranian court has ordered a complete ban on Telegram, Iran’s most popular instant messaging service, in a decision that has further tightened the Islamic Republic’s grip on the flow of news and information as well as severely disrupting Internet traffic.
The order was issued on 30 April at the behest of the Prosecutor’s Office for Culture and Media, which accused Telegram of “disrupting national unity, allowing foreign countries to spy on Iran by giving access to a great deal of information gathered about the country and its citizens, spreading insults about what is sacred and religious, disseminating anti-Islamic publicity and fake news designed to confuse the public and endanger national security.”
• Merchants’ Strike In Baneh, Iran Continues For Nineteenth Day
On Thursday, May 3rd, merchants in Baneh, Iran continued their nineteenth day of the nationwide strike in protest to the closing of borders and raising tariffs.
The protest strike continued while the government deployed a large number of law enforcement officers and counterinsurgency forces from other cities of Kurdistan to different parts of Baneh, and ths city is currently in an unregulated martial law.
• Pressure by Dept. of Intelligence led to Nishtman’s suicide
New information has revealed that in the days preceding her suicide, Nishtman Hossein Panahi had been repeatedly summoned to the Department of Intelligence in Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, and subjected to psychological torture.
Nishtman Hossein Panahi committed suicide and died on May 1, 2018, apparently in protest to the scheduled execution of her uncle, Ramin Hossein Panahi. A handwritten note left from her, however, indicates that the reason for her suicide was the pressure imposed on her by the Department of Intelligence in Sanandaj.
• Arab League backs Morocco for cutting off ties with Iran
(AP) — The Arab League says it supports Morocco's decision to sever ties with Iran over its alleged support for the Polisario Front in the disputed Western Sahara. Tehran has denied supporting the pro-independence group.
The spokesman for the Arab League's secretary-general Mahmoud Afifi said late on Wednesday that the Arab League condemns and rejects Iran's s intervention in Morocco or any other Arab country's internal affairs.
• 9/11 victims’ families win multibillion-dollar settlement against Iran
Loved ones of 9/11 victims won a multibillion-dollar judgement against Iran for allegedly aiding in the 2001 terror attacks, court papers revealed.
Manhattan federal judge George Daniels signed off on a pro forma default order Monday against “the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran” after they failed to respond to the suit over the infamous hijackings.
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