Iran Forms Police Unit Anticyber Crime



Tehran - Iran officially launched a cyber police unit to fight crime on the Internet that is increasingly rampant.

Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam said that the anti-cyber crime police unit operating in the capital Tehran. Then every police station will get the unit after his cyber antikejahatan respectively. Similarly, as quoted by The Age, Tuesday (25/01/2011).

Ahmad Moghaddam said that the unit will pursue antikejahatan cyber antirevolusioner groups who use social networking sites in 2009 which triggered protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"Through social networking sites in our country, groups antirevolution coordination with other countries and triggered riots," said Ahmad Moghaddam, referring to the anti-Ahmadinejad protest movements that sparked riots in Tehran, causing some deaths.

Supporters of rival candidates used the internet and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to extract information and to coordinate protests against Ahmadinejad after the election he repeated.

The Iranian government also several times to block the internet that makes internet access is quite difficult in the country.

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