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    Iran to block Telegram, nation's widely used social media app

    by Shashank Bengali and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times Apr 08, 2018 3 minutes

    TEHRAN, Iran_Telegram, the most popular social media app in Iran, will be blocked nationwide, state media reported Sunday.

    The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, the telecommunications minister, as saying the app used by an estimated 40 million Iranians –– half the population –– would be blocked starting 10 a.m. Monday.

    Fars carried the news on its Telegram channel, illustrating how the app is an almost inescapable part of daily life and used constantly by government officials, clerics, opposition activists, business owners and workaday Iranians.

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