Increased Security Measures on the Eve of Iran Regime's Presidential Election
- Monday, 24 April 2017 07:08
NCRI - Pointing to ‘300 thousand police forces’ being on alert, Iranian regime’s chief of police announced Saturday April 22 that the cyber police is monitoring all Telegram channels during the elections and that the slightest violations will be dealt with.
According to state-run Mehr news agency on April 22, Iranian regime’s police chief ‘Hossein Ashtari’ announced the news while speaking among correspondents about police priorities for regime’s 12th presidential election show.
Ashtari then warned over holding any kind of gathering, saying “gatherings should have authorization, and police will deal with any gathering held without permit.”
He added that “the cyber police will monitor all (Telegram) channels and will deal with violators.”
Regardless of practicality of monitoring ‘all’ Telegram channels, Ashtari’s warning comes at a time when ‘Hossein Nejat’, deputy chief of Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence office, has recently criticized Hassan Rouhani, acknowledging that Telegram voice calling service has been blocked because “we could control nothing” otherwise.
Nejat’s remarks in favor of blocking Telegram voice calling service was made a few days after the service was blocked in Iran.
The newly added voice service of the popular Telegram app was blocked by court order on Friday April 21, two days after being launched.
Iranian regime’s head of judiciary Sadegh Larijani had recently called on regime’s judicial and security officials to act in coordination with the country’s prosecutor-general to deal with demonstrations or ‘turbulences’, as regime’s officials put it, during the elections.
