June 19, 2004

Regulations led to ISPs closure

Based on the report by Student News Agency, many of the ISPs have been shut down according to a set of regulations that a cultural council passed about two years ago. However many critics say that the council doesn't have the constitutional authority to legilate in any way.

The following is the 6th part of it which deals with Internet as a publishing medium:

  1. Publishing any material that denies or is against Islam
  2. Disrespect towards Islamic religion or its respected legendaries
  3. Publishing materials that are against country’s constitution or anything that threatens national unity and independence
  4. Disrespecting supreme leader or any of the established high-ranking clerics
  5. Humiliation of respected religious facts and established orders, treasures of Islamic revolution and bases of political ideologies of founder of the Islamic revolution (late ayatollah Khomeini)
  6. Disrupting national unity
  7. To make negative allegation and to cause doubts and disappointment among people on eligibility and effectiveness of the government
  8. Advertising and distributing ideas of forbidden social and political groups
  9. Publishing classified documents
  10. Publishing content against moral beliefs of the society (such as pornography)
  11. Encouraging the use of drugs
  12. Publishing content that comprise baseless attack to government individuals or any other fellow countrymen
  13. Revealing private relations of people and dishonoring their personal information
  14. Distributing passwords or secrete codes of databases, software packages, e-mail accounts or introducing ways or cracking them
  15. Illegal commercial and financial activities via internet including faking, gamble, etc.
  16. Trading items via Internet that are illegal by law
  17. Any activity towards hacking private networks in order to shutdown or decrease their level of service
  18. Spying over the web and trying to illegally trace information passing through
  19. Making any radio and/or TV station without authorization and control of Islamic Republic Broadcasting (IRIB)

Although few of the items can be considered good for IT community but the majority of them are virtually aiming for more limitation of free speech online. Using such words like "disrespecting the roots of Islamic revolution" has become a custom in judiciary system to limit those who are not thinking like them. These taboos are so general in meaning that even among high rankings of the government they are matters of dispute.

Posted by sccon at 06:48 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

June 16, 2004

Blacklist, latest version

Here is the most recent list of websites that Iranian Telecom has asked from Iranian ISPS to block. It was sent by someone who has claimed to be an administrator of an ISP in Tehran.

It includes many political, entertainment, and erotic websites and weblogs both in English and Persian. Also included, are websites which users can use to bypass the filters, such as Proxify etc.

Please note that there are thousands of other websites in the blacklist which is sent to ISPs on a CD, but these are mainly the Persian ones. Others are basically pornographic sites in other languages.

213.4.130.210
3k.move.to
3kaf.freewebpage.org
3ks.hamzaboon.com
3xiran.blogsky.com
3xkids.blogspot.com
90videos.com
aabanaar.blogspot.com
abanar.photosfor.us
abujahl.blogspot.com
ajab.blogspot.com
akbarshah.blogspot.com
akhahoof.blogspot.com
anonvmouse.ws
ayateshevtani.blogsky.com
ayatesheytani.blogdrive.com
bachekoskhol.blogspot.com
back.to/cekaf
badsex.blogspot.com
badsex.bloqspot.com
bahador.ws
bikhoda.blogspot.com
bitch-kids.blogspot.com
cachebanners.toteme.com
cekaf.9f.com
clean-hosted-galleries.com
cooldoc.blogspot.com
cz4.clickzs.com
divxfile.com
earth.prohosting.com
eslam.bloqspot.com
eterazl.blogspot.com
farzan.envy.nu
fozool.blogspot.com
free.dam-teens.com
freenesskids.blogspot.com
gallys.nastydollars.com
gayaneh.blogspot.com
geocities.com
groups.yahoo.com/group/anti-mullah
groups.yahoo.com/group/Dokhtar_Irani
groups.yahoo.com/group/dokhtar_iroony_lokht
groups.yahoo.com/group/hameds_club
groups.yahoo.com/group/hamgens_khah
groups.yahoo.com/group/hashariha
groups.yahoo.com/group/iranifriends
groups.yahoo.com/group/iranigirl
groups.yahoo.com/group/kermanshah_dokhtar_va_pesar
groups.yahoo.com/group/khanomayeiran
groups.yahoo.com/group/Mordeh_shoreh_har_chee_2khtareh_bebaran
groups.yahoo.com/group/pesar_dokhtar_iran
groups.yahoo.com/group/room_cekaf_chat
groups.yahoo.com/group/shiraz_gay
groups.yahoo.com/group/tehranlovesex
groups.yahoo.com/grQup/dokhtarahamashoQnjendan
hamed.g3z.com
hasanagha.blogspot.com
hashar.com (Erotic)
hkids.blogspot.com
hkids.blogspot.com
hosted.teensgoporn.com
intstory.blogspot.com
iran3k.tripod.com
iranian.7p.com
iransex.da.ru
iransexv.takehost.com
iranstrip.tripod.com
joke3k.tripod.com
kaafar.com (Atheism)
khak~shir.netfirms.com
khuffash.blogspot.com
kids.sumka.org
kir2kir.blogspot.com
kir2kos.com
kolsoomnane.blogspot.com
kosokun.blogspot.com
kospkun.blogspot.com
leilalez.blogspot.com
limotorsh.blogspot.com
linkestane-ggbq.blogspot.com
lola.lolitaskingdom.biz
lolita.crazylola.net
lovelola.net
members.fortunecity.com
members.shaw.ca
mmmlOO.com
mortad.blogspot.com
move.to/3k
noshin.blogspot.com
omilani.netfirms,com
oohoom.blogsky.com
partners.ppornstars.com
parvardeqar.blogspot.com
p-s-p.5u.com
rahbarkhodam.blogspot.com
raincoat.blogspot.com
rawa.false.net
reality.gallerygenerator.com
resaleh.blogspot.com
sex4iran.blogspot.com
sexakhondi.blogspot.com
sexguide.blogspot.com
sexology.blogspot.com
shabnameh.org
shavedy.com
shaytan3000.blogspot.com
shemr.blogspot.com
shima.blogspot.com
stripcountry.com
tameshk.blogspot.com
teen-pictures.co.uk
userlands.com
vvww.amateurcurves.com
vww.parsbusiness.net/sex/akhfriend.htm
www young-hardcore.net young-hardcore.net
www.1334.persianblog.com
www.18tir29khordad.persianblog.com
www.213A130.210
www.3wisp.com
www.3xiran.blogsky.com
www.3xkids.blogspot.com
www.4rah.org
www.60pictures.com
www.70pictures.com
www.80pictures.com
www.89.com
www.90pics.com
www.90pictures.com
www.abanar.photosfor.us
www.adult.eom/h/l.html
www.adult-club.org
www.adultcybersites.com
www.afshinzandl.blogspot.com
www.aghaghi.com
www.ah-me.com
www.akhahoof.blogspot.com
www.akhond.subnet.dk
www.akhond.tk
www.akhoond.tk
www.aksestan.blogspot.com
www.aksestan.blogspot.com
www.akunews.org/
www.alefbe.com
www.alijavadi.com
www.all-nasty-sex-pics.com
www.allsexycelebs.com
www.amateursgonebad.com
www.amizesh.com
www.amoohamid.com
www.amplsw.com/javanan
www.anonymisers.com
www.anonymizer.com
www.ansarnet.8m.net
www.ara4u.com
www.arvand.net
www.asheghi.com
www.ashti.ifrance.com/ashti
www.ashti.org/
www.asiandelight.net
www.asiandelight.net_214
www.avairan.com/
www.avayeashena.com/
www.avayezan.com/
www.ayneh.com
www.azadegy.de
www.babaknews.persianblog.com/
www.babes-club.com
www.bachekoskhol.blogspot.com
www.badkidss.blogspot.com
www.badsex.blogspot.com
www.banisadr.com.fr
www.beach66/beach.htm
www.behzadfarahmand.blogspotcom
www.bentbuns.com
www.bentmovies.net
www.bia2.com
www.bigtitfantasy.com
www.bikinipagel.com
www.bitchinmovies.com
www.bitch-kids.blogspot.com
www.blackboQtybangers.com
www.blacknudecelebrities.com
www.blacksinblondes.com
www.blacksonblondes.com
www.blastmyface.com
www.blastmyface.com
www.blognama.com
www.bokon2sh.com
www.bonyadekar.com/
www.buttraider.com
www.cachebanners.toteme.com
www.cashz.info
www.cekaf.7p.com
www.cekaf.com (Erotic)
www.celeb-cafe.net
www.celeblot.com
www.celebmovies.tv
www.celebrities-collection.com
www.celebritits.com
www.celebrityhot.com
www.celebrityscandal.com
www.celeb-x.com
www.charter2003.org/
www.chebayadkard.com/
www.chekhabar.com/
www.chomagh.8m.com
www.cmi-fl.com/
www.come.to/siavashunion
www.commun.org/
www.cool.darkhost.info
www.cpiran.org/
www.critixxxcorner.com
www.crookedhalos.com
www.csex.blogspot.com
www.cvx.bedclip.com
www.cyberfreehost.com/index.php
www.cz4.clickzs.com
www.daneshjooyan.com/
www.dangerkids.blogspot.com
www.dangerkids.bloqsky.com
www.dardesar.com
www.dayani.de/
www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/parsi/derafshk.html
www.dfofd.de/home.html
www.diackomand.persian.com
www.dialogt.net
www.didgah.org
www.didghah.com
www.dirtymofo.com
www.dirtyteens.com
www.divxfile.com
www.divxfile.com
www.djdellyd.com
www.doodooli.com
www.easygals.com/main.shtml
www.easypic.com
www.easythumbs.com
www.edobble.com
www.efsha.info
www.eksir.com
www.eksir.com
www.emamjan.tripot.com
www.emrooz.org/ (Political News, Reformists)
www.entezam.org/ (Political, political prisoner)
www.estefta.blogspot.com
www.etehadchap.com/ (Political, leftist)
www.etehadefedaian.org/
www.fadai.org/
www.fadaian.org/
www.farahpahlavi.org/ (Political, former Queen)
www.farsijoke.com
www.filmbebin.com
www.fisgo.8m.com
www.forouharha.com/ (Political, murdered nationalist)
www.free-asian-sex-now.com
www.freecelebnudes.com
www.freecelebrities.net
www.free-celebrities-pics.com
www.freenesskids.blogspot
www.freeones.com
www.freepassbucks.com
www.freevoyeurwebs.com
www.frenchcum.com/freegalleries5.html
www.freshauditions.com
www.funiran.com (Entertainment)
www.galleries.cummyfeet.com
www.galleries.gigacash.com
www.gallerypost.com
www.gallview.com
www.geocities.com/
www.geocities.com/ahangark
www.geocities.com/ahangark
www.geocities.com/amoozesh20/
www.geocities.com/book23years.html
www.geocities.com/farstoons
www.geocities.com/farstoons
www.geocities.com/fedaian/Farsi
www.geocities.com/fisgo2003
www.geocities.com/frakhan
www.geocities.com/havadar2002
www.geocities.com/iran_kiri
www.geocities.com/Iranian-satanic
www.geocities.com/jendehaye-iran/2.html
www.geocities.com/kaavehaahangar
www.geocities.com/no-islam2000
www.ghaffari.8m.com
www.ghoghnoos.org
www.ghorazeh.iran.li
www.golshan.com
www.gooya.com (Political news)
www.gradeababes.com
www.hadisara.com (Political satirist))
www.hallaj2.persianblog.com
www.hambastegi.org/
www.hambastegi-baraie-iran.org
www.hamishak.blogspot.com
www.hardcore.xxx-samples.com
www.hashar.com (Erotic)
www.hashari.issexy.tv
www.hashari.issexy.tv
www.hashariha.com
www.hashariha.com
www.hashariha.com
www.hasti.com
www.hastisexy.bloqspot.com
www.hemid.com
www.hezbkharan.com
www.hkids.blogspot.com
www.hoder.com (Weblog)
www.hoder.com/main-frame.html
www.holly-nude-celebrities.com
www.homa.org
www.home.bip.net/radiohambastegi/
www.home.tiscalinet.ch/pwoiran
www.honeycelebs.com
www.hornywolf.com
www.hot-chixs.com
www.hotlivesexshows.com
www.hot-xxx-videos.com
www.hoveyda.org/
www.htthost.com
www.www.ultimatetopsites.com/bin/topsite.cgi?panjtan
www.icetgp.com
www.idealbabes.net
www.iloveporn.com
www.imamali-s.net
www.immigration-iran.sayt.ws
www.insex.blogspot.com
www.international.org/
www.intstory.bldgspot.com
www.iran.jommelli.com/
www.iran.mojahedin.org/
www.iran1357.com/
www.iran3x.takehost.com
www.iranara.blogspot.com
www.iranbestsites.com
www.iran-chabar.de
www.iran-daneshjoo.org (Political, student group)
www.iran-daneshjoo.org/
www.iran-e-azad.org
www.iran-e-azad.org/
www.iran-e-azad.org/
www.iran-emrooz.de/ (Political, news portal)
www.iran-e-sabz.org/
www.irangroup.bravepages.com
www.Iranian_Friend_Finder.htm
www.iranianfeminists.com/
www.iranjavan.de
www.irankosmp3.weblOOO.com
www.iran-nabard.com/
www.irannow.blogspot.com
www.iransex.tk
www.iransexy.web1000.com
www.iransexy.weblOOO.com
www.iransexy.weblOOO.com
www.iransolidarity.com
www.iranstrip.tripod.com
www.irantestimony.com/ Politica, human rights)
www.iranvajahan.net/english/
www.iranvajahan.net/farsi/
www.irmelody.com
www.italyclubweb.com
www.i-w-o.org/
www.jamali.us
www.jawanan.org
www.jebhe.org/
www.jebhemelli.net/ (Political, nationalist group)
www.jebhemelli.org/
www.jeegar.com (Entertainment, erotic)
www.jendeh.tk
www.j-j-iran.ifrance.com/j-j-iran
www.jokeiran.netfirms.com
www.jonbesh.org
www.jonbeshdaneshjo.persianblog.com
www.jonge-khabar.com
www.kaafar.com
www.kaafar.com
www.kaafar.netfirms.com
www.kaafaraaneh.blogspot.com
www.kanonkargar.topcities.com/
www.kanoon-zendanian.org
www.kargar.org/
www.kasravi.info
www.kavehsara.org
www.kayhanlondon.com/
www.khandeh.ifrance.com/khandeh
www.khavaran.com/
www.khayyami.free.fr
www.khgh.blogspot.com
www.khodkar.com
www.killer-kids.blogspot.com
www.kir2kir.blogspot.com
www.komala.org/
www.korset.netfirms.com
www.kos2kir.blogsky.com
www.kos2kos
www.kos2kos.com
www.kosfooroosh.uk
www.koskhol.org
www.kosokun.blogspot.com
www.kossher.com
www.kossher.com/main/ie5/main.html
www.kurdistanmedia.com/
www.latina.adultfriendFmder.com
www.learning.sitesabz.com
www.leilalez.blogspot.com
www.lightspeedgalleries.com
www.limotorsh.blogspot.com
www.lolitas-bbs.com
www.lookitnow.com
www.lover-kids.blogspot.com
www.mabhoot.blogspot.com
www.madthumbs.com
www.mafiagalleries.co
www.magoori.com
www.main.faithfreedom.org
www.marxsociety.com/
www.mashrooteh.org
www.massadegh.com/
www.mbabes.net
www.megaproxy.com
www.members.lycos.co.uk
www.members.shaw.ca/eblog/3k
www.membres.lycos.fr/abasiran/davidl.html
www.met-art.com
www.mini-melons.com
www.mktehrani.com/
www.mmmlOO.com
www.mobarezan.com
www.molla-hassani.tripod.com
www.montazeri.com/ (Political, opposition cleric)
www.montrealchicks.com
www.mordab.com
www.mortad.blogspot.com
www.movabletype.org (Technical, content management system)
www.movx.com
www.mrhex.blogspot.com
www.mrskin.nudesonline.com
www.nehzatetashyealavi.com/
www.nejat.info
www.nejat.info/
www.neshaat.com
www.neshatshop.com
www.niabati.tk
www.niceass.biz/main.html
www.nity.tv/
www.nok.persianblog.com
www.nooshi.blogspot.com
www.noproxy.com
www.nscash.com
www.nsqalleries.com
www.nudecelebritynetwork.com
www.nude-celebrity-pictures.com
www.nude-celebrity-videos.com
www.nudecelebsites.corn
www.nudestarz.com
www.nvmphete.info
www.oddworldz.com/akhond
www.officespy.com
www.omilani.netfirms.com/baad
www.onlypro.com
www.onlytease.com
www.ontheirknees.com
www.opener.9tg.net
www.page.to/kaveh
www.panahjoo.com
www.pandalist.com
www.paparazzifilth.com
www.paradisenudes.com
www.parsl.com/
www.parspejvak.com/ (Socio-political, news website)
www.parstoday.com
www.passion.com
www.pdki.org/
www.pdk-iran.org/
www.peek-a-booty.org (Technical, filter bypassing application)
www.peek-a-booty.org
www.peiknet.com (Political, news website)
www.penimore.com
www.pepages.com/ani/polgr/inani/ax/kir/kir.htm
www.period.blogspot.com
www.periodsexy.bloqspot.com
www.persianass.tk
www.persianbears.weblOOO.com
www.persiannote.blogspot.com
www.phoenix-dg.com
www.photo.amizesh.com
www.pichunter.com
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www.pics4all.net
www.pictures-and~galleries.com
www.pinkpornstars.com
www.polpiran.com/
www.pooldoc.blogspot.com
www.popcelebs.com
www.popupprevention.net
www.pornmovieslinks.CQm
www.pornomix.com
www.pornstarfinder.net
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www.poshtepardeh.com
www.pouyaa.com
www.proxy22.com
www.proxyweb.net
www.pruvider.com
www.psf.persianblog.com
www.qeocities.com/jendehay_iran
www.qiqateens.com
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www.qualitypornpics.com
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www.rabbany.com
www.radioazadi.org/
www.radiofarda.com/ (Media, 24-hour radio station)
www.radis.org/
www.rahavard.com/
www.rahe-azadi.com/
www.rahekargar.net/
www.rahetude.de/ (Political, leftist)
www.ramses.issexy.tv
www.rationalthinking.humanists.net
www.realnakedcelebrities.com
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www.refrandom.com/index.php
www.resaleh.blogspot.com
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www.rezapahlavi.org/ (Political, son of the former Shaah)
www.roozegareman.tk
www.roozegarman.tk
www.roozi.com (Entertainment, portal)
www.roshangari.com/ (Political, news portal)
www.rowzane.com
www.rowzane.com/
www.rowzane.com/000-day-row/2301/230202
www.royasaz.com
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www.saghf.com/13829329/index.html
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www.saheliha.blogspot.com
www.samaa.org
www.sar.gardoon.net (Technical, group blog)
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www.shopca.com/doctoreshraghi/
www.sh-shafa.com
www.shurideh.com
www.siahkal.com/
www.siahsepid.com (Political, e-zine)
www.siasate-kargari.com/
www.sicgalleries.com
www.smtohidi.org/
www.sobhaneh.com (News portal)
www.sobhiran.com/
www.sootiman.blogspot.com
www.space.net.au
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June 14, 2004

Iran filters BlogSpot

According to various Iran-based websites and blogs, Iranian Telecom Iran has apparently filtered blogpspot.com and all its subdomains.

Mehdi, a blogger from Qum is one of them. There is also a post in a group blog, Sobhaneh, about this.

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Iran has spent $8 million for filtering

In a press conference, Reza Rashidi, the head of Data Communication Company of Iran, said that shutting down the ISPs will continue until all VoIP communication comes under control and none of the ISPs provide open access to blacklisted websites.

He added the government has spend 70 billion Rials (over $8 million) for blocking users accessing the blacklisted websites, BBC Persian reports.

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June 08, 2004

New Wave of Crack-Down on ISPs

A dozen of small and medium-sized Iranian ISPs have been shut down over the last couple of weeks for providing VoIP Termination services, or failing to filter blacklisted websites, etc.

Based on a report by Labour News Agency (ILNA), Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran prosecuter, has told the ISP association representative that that they've been studying for six months to catch those ISPs who do not filter as intense as they should. Even Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran unpopular prosecutor, has particularly said that he "won't let the Imam Hossein's dearests to be insulted" by some Iranian websites.

Apparently, in the recent crack down, both IT Ministry and Judiciary have been involved: the minsitery to stop the VoIP that has terribly reduced its revenue, and the Judiciary to prevent people from accessing some radical anti-religious and anti-regime websites that are there in Persian.

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