TEHRAN, Nov 22_Iran’s minister of telecommunications has slammed remarks by a senior US diplomat about internet blackout in Iran, saying it is pure hypocrisy that Americans are promising to provide Iranians with free and unrestricted internet.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday Americans would better think about the unrestricted flow of vital medicines to the Iranian patients suffering from cancer rather that caring about internet and its sustainability in Iran.
US ambassador to Germany Richard Allen Grenell said in a tweet on Sunday that his government had the technical ability to ensure that internet in Iran would be free of any blocking attempt, a claim rejected by Azari as untrue, at least for the time being.
“Internet will return to the life of the Iranian people soon and the government would continue to develop it,” said Azari, vowing that the internet in Iran will continue to be a platform for exposing the "oppressive" policies of the US government.