TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's police chief says the Islamic Republic is developing new software to control social networking sites. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi ...

The Iranian government's consistent repressive policies towards netizens has increased two fold in recent years as the government continues to step up its program to monitor, censor and persecute dissidents.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran calls it the "soft war" with the West: Battles to control, defend and monitor the Internet and other high-level telecommunication...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Many Iranian web users say their access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail appears to have been restored ...

Iran is mounting new clampdowns on Internet expression, including rules that will impose layers of surveillance in the country's popular Internet cafe...

Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace f...

When it comes to sanctions, bigger is not always better. If Washington wants to do something on Iran, it should first stop helping the Ahmadinejad government repress its people.

The walls used by 21st century tyrannies to control their citizens are increasingly electronic rather than physical. American interests will be powerfully advanced in finding ways to breach those walls.