Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back internet restrictions.

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Allowing the use of WhatsApp and Google Play is the "first step in removing internet limitations," according to Iranian officials. The country still enforces draconian internet controls.

Iran to lift ban on WhatsApp, Google Play, state media report Authorities vote to allow use of Meta’s instant messaging platform and Google Play as a first step to scale back internet restrictions.

Iran’s government on Tuesday said it had lifted a ban on access to WhatsApp and Google Play after more than two years, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran’s council on safeguarding the Internet has voted to lift bans on the WhatsApp messenger and the Google Play apps, state media reported.

Iran’s government has unblocked access to the WhatsApp messenger and Google Play store after banning them two years ago, state media reported. The Supreme Cyberspace Council, which is tasked ...

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Iranian authorities have officially lifted the ban on WhatsApp and the Google Play Store, signalling a significant shift in the country's internet restrictions, the Islamic Republic News Agency ...