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Monday, January 24, 2005

The members of the parliament have a plan to close "Yahoo Massenger" and "Orkut" ( "overcut") !

The members of the parliament have a plan to close "Yahoo Massenger" and "Orkut" ( "overcut") !
Tehran- " SINA" News Agency ( Persian news )- Samieh Nosrati
A few principle minded members of the 7th parliament are planning to ban the internet based program, " Orkut" ( overcut) and " Yahoo Messenger ".
A few days ago by the order of judiciary system " orkut" and "Persian blog " was banned or filtered by some of the Internet Service Providers( ISP ) which brought protest by the government of Iran .
The spokeperson for the Iranian government called the banning of the site as " braking the law " But Tehran prosecutor in defense of the deed of judiciary said that ; The judiciary by itself will close all the site's that publishes " anti religious , immoral and anti god " materials . Many of the members of parliament do not know about the reality of Yahoo Messenger .
One member from the majority faction of the Islamic Assembly Council in this regard has said: The assembly will fight with everything that is immoral.
Engineer Reza Rashidi The president of Dita company in a dialogue with SINA reporter about the closure of the overcut and Yahoo messenger web site has said : You can get or follow up the information about the closure from a 3 person committee formed of rep. from Radio and TV, rep. from Ministry of Information and rep. from Ministry of culture and Islamic Guidance because they haven't sent anything to us. The director of the public relation of Iran's Telecommunication Co. has said : The order of closure or filtering the sites are coming from the supreme councile of the cultural revolution, usually people can't give us closure order but if the order comes from parliament we will follow that.
In Iran powerful officials can do what the government can't do. Certainly the closure of the sites is the work of powerful officials.

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