Anniversary of the Revolution, Iran Block Facebook, Gmail

In commemoration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran blocked a number of sites. The Iranian government tightened control internet access and ensure its citizens can not access popular websites.

Local media launch, some 30 million Iranians report can not access Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and a series of other sites. Quoted from Hacker News, on Monday (2/13/2012), blocking what Iran since last Thursday.

Although no official statement from the government, Iranian media strongly suspect this was done to prevent the outbreak of protests from the opposition.

Until now, Iranians generally use a kind of 'street rat' to get away from government censorship. But now, many internet users reported Iran, such a program was no longer allows access to sites such as Facebook.

Iran did show ambition to take complete control over access to information for citizens. When this country was led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was keen to examine domestic internet. Network that is claimed to 'halal', the Iranians will be limiting the penetration of foreign sites, including Facebook and Twitter.

Iranian authorities even require internet cafe owners there to gather information of their clients. If they refuse, internet cafe business was going to be stopped.