Authorities in Iran have denied reports that the country is planning to block all access to foreign internet sites and that the only form of access will be via a government-controlled national intranet. The Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology (MICT) said the reports were ‘completely baseless’, although it did confirm that there are plans to establish what it called a ‘national information network’ which will be a closed system containing only Islamic sites deemed appropriate by censors. It is not known whether this closed system will function alongside the regular internet in Iran – which in any case is heavily censored – or will act as a replacement
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OVETEL Iranian government denies plans to block internet access
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