Iran’s new Communications Minister said today that negotiations are underway with Twitter to unblock the service, which has been banned for years despite being used even by the country’s supreme leader.
The micro-blogging platform was barred at the time of mass anti-regime protests in 2009 that followed allegations of massive rigging in the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The 36-year-old Jahromi became Iran’s youngest-ever minister this week, and the first to be born after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
His selection has been criticised by rights groups over his involvement in surveillance during and after the mass anti-regime protests of 2009. He rejected the criticism.
