Iran shuts down Google mail

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: McElyea Shannon <shannonm () gmail com>
> Date: February 11, 2010 1:40:25 PM EST
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Iran shuts down Google mail

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7208726/Iran-shuts-down-Google-Mail.html
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>
> By James Quinn in New York
> Published: 9:58PM GMT 10 Feb 2010
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> Iran has blocked access to Gmail, and instead plans to launch its  
> own national email service
> In a move ahead of Thursday's 31st anniversary of the creation of  
> Iran's Islamic Republic, the national telecoms agency in Tehran said  
> that it will ban Gmail and will instead facilitate its own national  
> email service.
> The decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes just  
> a month after Google threatened to leave China amid concerns that  
> its systems had been attacked by Chinese hackers.
>
>
> The Iranian announcement is understood to be part of a wider  
> crackdown on opposition protests ahead of today's anniversary, which  
> is likely to bring significant protests from both dissenters and  
> supporters of the Islamic revolution.
> The development came amid reports of significant disruptions to  
> internet services across the country in the last week, as well as  
> delays in text messages being sent.
> It remained unclear as to what impact the announcement had actually  
> had on the Gmail service in the country.
> Speaking in June 2009, following protests surrounding last year's  
> Iranian elections, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, warned  
> that it was at their "peril" that regimes such as that in Tehran  
> attempt to blackout media sources.
> YouTube, which is owned by Google, was one of the main ways in which  
> video footage of the protests was beamed around the world.
> A Google spokesman said: "We have heard from users in Iran that they  
> are having trouble accessing Gmail. We can confirm a sharp drop in  
> traffic and we have looked at our own networks and found that they  
> are working properly.
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