Former Communications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi praised the Cyberspace Supreme Council’s transfer, calling it a optimistic and obligatory motion.
He praised the President and different officers for understanding the significance of free communication and the worth of social capital within the digital age.
However, Jahromi identified that the general public’s expectations have gone past the primary stage, stressing that the general public continues to attend for different platforms to be lifted.
Leading journalist Mohammad Mohajeri additionally wrote in X that the federal government’s efforts to raise the ban are laudable, however fall in need of the folks’s calls for.
He famous that no matter platform standing, reliance on VPNs continues, exhibiting that the governance of our on-line world is within the palms of VPN sellers.
Reza Alizadeh, chairman of the Parliamentary Industry and Mines Committee, criticized the inefficiency of filtering, saying it could solely stimulate the VPN market and enhance public prices.
On Tuesday, forward of the lifting of the ban, 136 members of Iran’s parliament launched a letter forward of a Cyberspace Council assembly calling for continued filtering.
Iran’s Supreme Council for Cyberspace, which oversees the web, voted Tuesday night time in favor of lifting the ban on WhatsApp and Google Play.