Iran launched its first-ever military satellite on Wednesday. The satellite, developed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is expected to expand Tehran’s already considerable
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll all over the globe, causing severe socioeconomic disruption, the stock market crash, millions of job losses, the
Brave Iranians put on their creative caps in finding creative, low-tech ways of dealing with the Coronavirus…….
The Donald Trump administration is ramping up its information war against Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. And it has enlisted social media platforms as weapons in
As Iran erupted with protests this past weekend, the Iranian government responded with a violent clamp down against demonstrators and the severing of nearly all
On 9 October, the Iranian government sent a formal letter to telecommunications service providers ordering them to block the Google Play, Google’s official app store, “as soon
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower on routine patrol in the Persian Gulf was photographed with video sensors aboard an IRGC unarmed drone. https://youtu.be/QRRv-X12Ke0 The specific
At some point, every one of us will either go to the hospital or take a loved one. It’s supposed to be one of the
The F-5 itself may be an aging design, but for the purposes of regional air defense and training (or in Syria offense) it may be
Some 95 members of Iran’s parliament (Majles), including 22 prominent reformists, have tabled a motion on Sunday December 2 that would tighten Iranian government’s grip
Google, Facebook, and Twitter are removing social media accounts of real life Iranians who are falsely dubbed as “government trolls.” Student journalist Sayed Mousavi warns
Earlier, the Iranian Defense Ministry announced plans to overhaul and manufacture more than 700 domestically-built tanks, including Karrar (Striker), part of the country’s plans to
Recent warnings of an imminent Iranian cyberattack on the U.S. are dubious at best — aimed at ending the U.S.’ isolation through dishonest intelligence, while
On June 8th, a number of Iranian online businesses reported that they have been banned from using Google Maps Services. After investigating the situation, we
This week the Minister of ICT, Azari Jahromi, talked about the ministry’s achievements and the latest trends in the country’s ICT field during both the
As the world grapples with Facebook’s numerous data breaches, along with the revelation that Google holds a lot more of our personal data than Facebook does, one Seattle-based
The head of the Azad University of Qazvin branch, Morteza Mousakhani, announced that a knowledge-based company working with the university has received the license to
Recent discussions surrounding Telegram’s imminent censorship amongst Iranian officials have rattled Iran’s “filternet,” or its controlled and restricted Internet space, like never before. The parliamentary
While there are rumors about the messaging app, Telegram, to be blocked in Iran for several reasons, the majority of the Iranian people keep using it as
In the past weeks, Iranian authorities have warned users to migrate to local messaging apps as Telegram might soon get blocked in the country. While
Yes, life is indeed beautiful. Like a temple’s eternal fire, When lit, the dance of its flames is visible from far, Or else, there is
The Minister of ICT, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, participated in the first online press conference. This conference was live to watch on Aparat, and had
Iranian women are topping the charts with the highest number of female scientists in the world, far surpassing their western counterparts with over half of
At the height of this winter’s protest movement in Iran, there was a temporary ban on the Telegram messaging app, alongside the other popular foreign social
A statement I occasionally hear from people who are investigating the startup ecosystem in Iran is that we don’t have innovative startups, or that most of the
