An Iranian news site is reporting the country will block the Telegram messenger service for reasons of national security.
The report today by Mashreghnews.ir quotes the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi.
He says the decision was made "at the highest level" and the app would be replaced by a similar local system.
Boroujerdi said the decision was a response to what he called Telegram's destructive role in anti-government protests that began in late December in which at least 25 people were killed and nearly 5,000 reportedly arrested.
The app, with some 40 million users in Iran, was temporarily shut down during the protests in early January. However, some 10 per cent of users reached it through proxies and VPN services.
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