The Iranian Committee on Internet Crimes at the weekend
banned WhatsApp from being in-use in the country, reports DigitalSENSE Business News.
WhatsApp is the cross-platform instant messaging subscription
service for smartphones that American Silicon tycoon, Mark Zuckerberg recently
acquired for the sum of $19 billion.
Fox News last Friday reported quoted Abdolsamad
Khorramabadi, head of the Iranian committee as saying, “The reason for this is
the assumption of WhatsApp by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is an
American Zionist.”
Meanwhile, the US Commission on International Religious
Freedom blasted the Islamic Republic last week in a report on the repression of
religious freedom.
“Iran continues to propagate anti-Semitism and target
members of the Jewish community on the basis of real or perceived ‘ties to
Israel.’ Numerous programs broadcast on state-run television advance
anti-Semitic messages.
“Official government discrimination against Jews continues
to be pervasive, fostering a threatening atmosphere for the approximately
20,000 member Jewish community,” the Commission said.
“Despite the June 2013 election of a new and purportedly
moderate president - Hassan Rouhani; the already-poor religious freedom
conditions in Iran continued to deteriorate, particularly for religious
minorities, especially Baha’is and Christian converts. Sufi and Sunni Muslims
and dissenting Shi’a Muslims also faced harassment, arrests, and imprisonment,”
the commission said.
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