Crack down on ISPs

A dozen of small and medium-sized Iranian ISPs have been shut down over the last couple of weeks for various reasons: providing VoIP, failing to filter blacklisted websites, etc.

In a recent meeting, top judiciary officials have told the ISP association representative that that they've been studying for six months to catch those ISPs who do not filter as intense as they should. Even Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran unpopular prosecutor, has particularly said that he "won't let the Imam Hossein's dearests to be insulted" by some Iranian websites.

Apparently, in the recent crack down, both IT Ministry and Judiciary have been involved. The former to stop the VoIP that has terribly reduced their revenue, and the latter to prevent people access the radical anti-religious and anti-regime websites.

I haven't seen any report about it anywhere, by the way.