“The Iranian government is active on Telegram, as is the president, and members of Parliament,” she said. Take, for example, the Google App Engine, a service intended to be used as a platform for developing and hosting web applications. In countries where they are otherwise banned, messaging apps that encrypt conversations often use the Google App Engine to conceal their activity within Google’s traffic. But Google believes that it is not allowed to offer its Google App Engine in Iran because of the sanctions. Not good!”Ms. Dagres argued that tweets from officials in other countries do little, but allowing access to more communications tools would help protect protesters.

Source: New York Times January 03, 2018 00:58 UTC