Iran is one of the countries with the heaviest Internet censorship. Iran's government and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are seeking to block all social media. In 2019, Reporters Without Borders ranked Iran 170 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index

Internet Censorship and Repression in Iran’s Clerical Regime

It was only a few months after Khomeini and his cleric regime came to power in 1979 that media censorship began across Iran.

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