NCRI – The Information and Communication Technology Minister in Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet declared on Monday that the filtering on social networks Facebook and Twitter in Iran will continue and there is not plan to lift them.
Responding to a question by a reporter of ISNA news agency asking “what is the result of review of filtering of the websites such as Facebook and Twitter”, Mahmoud Vaezi said: “there is no plan for removing the filtering on these website, so they will continue to remain on the same state.”
The ICT Minister commenting on membership of some members of Hassan Rouhani’s government in Facebook and twitter said: “ask themselves.”
Later the same day the website of the ministry published a statement and said: “In response to a question by some reporters who had said why, the filtering on Facebook continues despite your remarks indicating that the filtering will be lifted, the minister said I have not said that at all.”
The statement did not deny the report by ISNA state-run news agency. However it said the filtering state of social networks such as Facebook is being reviewed by some working group outside the ministry and the result will be announced.
