INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Iranian authorities have raised a ban on Meta&& 's immediate messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back web
restrictions, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.The Islamic Republic has some of the strictest controls on Internet access in the
world, however its blocks on United States -based social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are regularly bypassed by tech-savvy
Iranians using virtual personal networks, Reuters reported.&& A favorable bulk vote has actually been reached to raise restrictions on
access to some popular foreign platforms such as WhatsApp and Google Play&& , Iran & 's official IRNA news firm said on Tuesday, describing
a conference on the matter headed by President Masoud Pezeshkian.&& Today the first step in removing web constraints & hellip; has actually
been taken,& & IRNA mentioned Iran & 's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Sattar Hashemi as saying.Social media
platforms were commonly utilized in anti-government protests in Iran.The post Iran raises ban on WhatsApp and Google Play, state media
states first appeared on Ariana News.
