Iran not to lift ban on Facebook and Twitter
Iran will continue blocking Facebook and Twitter, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said, ISNA news agency reported.
Earlier, Iranian media outlets quoted member of Iran's Committee on Internet filtering Mohammad Reza Aghamiri as saying that Iran may conditionally unblock Facebook.
"We should develop a smart filtering system for separating illegal and useful content on Facebook," Aghamiri said, adding that Facebook may be unblocked after that.
The Iranian authorities blacked out Facebook and Twitter in the summer of 2009, when ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election victory sparked massive protests that gained momentum with the help of organizers using social media.
Alongside Facebook, Iran has blocked access to many websites including You Tube.
Most users have found the ways to evade the state censors and get access to all sites via proxy tunnels and channels.
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