Iran has banned all government bodies from using foreign-based messaging apps, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office announced that his Telegram account would be shut down to protect national interests. Iranian news agencies did not give a reason for the government ban on April 18, ...
For tens of millions of Iranians, Telegram is an indispensable tool. The popular encrypted messaging app is used by half the population for everything from sharing videos with family and friends to conducting business to engaging in political debate. Over the years it has even become a common ...
Iran’s leader Khamenei has shut down his Telegram account to protect national security. This move comes after Russian recently banned the app in the country./ Iran banned government bodies on Wednesday from using the popular Telegram instant messaging app as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
Iran banned government bodies on Wednesday from using the popular Telegram instant messaging app as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office said his account would shut down to protect national security, Iranian media reported./ The Telegram logo is seen on a screen of a smartphone in this ...
- Iran's presidency has banned all government bodies from using foreign-based messaging apps to communicate with citizens, state media reported Wednesday, after economic protests organized through such apps shook the country earlier this year./ Chief among those apps is Telegram, used by over 40 ...
Iran has banned use of foreign massaging services including Telegram in all governmental organizations as well as public non-governmental institutions. In a decree issued by Iranian Presidency’s Strategic Centre for Exchange of Information Security (AFTA) all executive agencies, state-run ...
Iranian state TV says government bodies have been barred from using foreign messaging apps. State TV says Wednesday the ban was imposed by the Presidential Office on all public institutions. It was not clear if the ban applied to civil servants outside of work hours. The report did not elaborate ...
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut/ A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...