How much longer do the Iranian people and the rest of the world have to endure this authoritarian and belligerent theocracy in Iran? It has been now almost 45 years! Allah have mercy!
"Iran to wall off its internet from the rest of the world
A countrywide National Information Network, which will keep most Iranians off the World Wide Web, will go live any day now, sources say. When it does, it will make international collaborations with the country’s scientists even more challenging than they already are.
Years of international sanctions have made it increasingly difficult to conduct research in Iran. Simply getting supplies or accessing papers was tricky, and that was before the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini ignited months of protests and subsequent government backlash. Hundreds of students and some faculty members are among the more than 19,000 arrested in demonstrations, and faculty that have spoken out about the government have been fired. ...
The new network will function as an intranet, similar to North Korea’s Kwangmyong, breaking most people’s online connections to the rest of the world. The cyberwalls will stymie scientific collaborations with what the government views as an immoral West. “We feel that our world is getting smaller,” an Iranian physicist says, “and our prospects bleaker.”"
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