Iran’s Revolutionary Guards target popular messaging app in widening crackdown

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian authorities have arrested administrators of more than 20 groups on the messaging app Telegram for spreading “immoral content”, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday, the latest detentions in a clampdown on freedom of expression. In recent weeks, Iran's powerful hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has rounded up a number of artists, journalists and U.S. citizens, citing fears of Western “infiltration”

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards target popular messaging app in widening crackdown