Telegram in Iran on verge of being blocked
Iran’s supreme leader leaves Telegram as talk increases of the imminent blocking of the popular messaging app.
The popular messaging app Telegram is seemingly drawing its last breaths in Iran as a number of reports indicate its likely imminent blocking.
Telegram has more than 40 million users in Iran and is widely believed to have played a significant role in the victory of Iran’s moderate President Hassan Rouhani in the 2017 presidential elections.
On April 18, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Telegram channel announced it would have no further activity. It said, “In order to protect the national interest and to break the monopoly of the Telegram messenger,” the website khamanei.ir has stopped its activity on this messaging application.
The website said Khamenei will continue his presence in cyberspace through local messaging applications.
