Iran's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the social network Facebook is un-Islamic. According to him, having a Facebook account is tantamount to sinning. "In essence, any website that triggers moral decline and results in a decrease in religious values in society is haram and must be avoided," he was quoted as saying. nationmultimedia.com, Monday (9/1).
He "allows" for pages that do not trigger moral decline and degradation of religious values in society.
More than 5 million pages are blocked in Iran. Iranian officials, for more than three decades, have waged what they call the “war against invasion of Western culture. The policy was aimed at blocking "immoral" sites and banning western music and films.
Ensuring the effectiveness of the policy, the mullahs have recently set up a cyberpolice unit and are planning to introduce a national internet network even though the program has been postponed several times.
Based on Iranian government data, at the end of October last year, as many as 17 million Iranians had Facebook accounts. This number is quite large considering that the Iranian government strictly filters pages such as Facebook in Iran. However, the data is still approximate. It is possible that the number is greater than the existing data. (Republika). *
