{"id":33806,"date":"2012-03-09T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33806"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:18:34","slug":"iran-leader-orders-creation-of-internet-oversight-agency-in-bid-to-control-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33806","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Leader orders creation of internet oversight agency in bid to control web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship : Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iran&#8217;s<\/a> Supreme leader has ordered <a title=\"Washington Post: Iranian leader orders creation of Internet oversight agency in bid to control web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iranian-leader-orders-creation-of-internet-oversight-agency-in-bid-to-control-web\/2012\/03\/07\/gIQAlpYawR_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the creation<\/a> of an &#8220;internet oversight agency&#8221; to control the web.\u00a0Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the creation of the &#8220;Supreme Council of Cyberspace&#8221; which aims to prevent harm to Iranians who go online. Dangers expected to be tackled by the Council include\u00a0computer viruses created by Iran\u2019s rivals aimed at sabotaging its industry, and\u00a0a \u201cculture invasion\u201d which would undermine the Islamic Republic.\u00a0President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will head the cyberspace council, along with powerful security figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme leader has ordered the creation of an &#8220;internet oversight agency&#8221; to control the web.\u00a0Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the creation of the &#8220;Supreme Council of Cyberspace&#8221; which aims to prevent harm to Iranians who go online. Dangers expected to be tackled by the Council include\u00a0computer viruses created by Iran\u2019s rivals aimed at sabotaging its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[1729,103,4292,3003,7359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33810,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33806\/revisions\/33810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}