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Real reason Iran banned Telegram messaging app

Pavel Durov’s Telegram messaging application is having a bit of a rough ride this month.

First, Russia banned it, and now Iran has banned it with the country’s judiciary claiming it banned the app because of security, cultural and economic concerns.

The Iranian judiciary believes that Telegram operates with a disregard for the country’s laws; it’s concerned that Iranian users’ data is processed and stored outside the country; and it says that it’s causing economic damage by pursuing its own cryptocurrency which goes against Iranian banking regulations.

On the security front, the country blames the app for acting as a medium for “provoking chaos and riots” and played a “pivotal” role in recent protests which saw fatalities and injuries.

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Over the last few years, Telegram has been accused of allowing ISIS to proliferate their content on the platform.

The firm responded by shutting down thousands of channels, however, terrorists were still able to use the app in order to attack the Iranian parliament and the Imam Khomeini mausoleum last year in which 17 people died.

 

 

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