Iran to go off web completely by August

The days for Internet in Iran seem numbered, as an official statement from the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, Reza Taghipour affirms that by August, millions of Internet users in the country would be cut off the Internet permanently, thereby disconnecting them from services like e-mail, social networking etc. A report by International Business Times confirms that the block on the Internet, will deter a user’s access to popular sites, like Google, Gmail, Google Plus, Yahoo! and Hotmail, in a bid to facilitate the government’s intention of establishing ‘clean Internet’. The statement cites the government’s decision to resurrect a national intranet by that time. Once the first phase of the project is rolled out next month, the aforementioned sites will be blocked completely for Internet users in Iran and will instead be replaced with government Intranet services like Iran Mail and Iran Search Engine. The final phase of this procedure will come in August, which is when the proposed complete block will take effect.

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