Iranians Say Goodbye to YouTube

In November, the Iranian authorities placed the video-sharing website YouTube on the list of officially blocked sites, in a bid to stop people looking at it or worse still, uploading their own images.

Despite this, it seems likely that Iranians will try to find their way round the obstructions as YouTube has become hugely popular in the country. Given that television and radio are run by the government and the few foreign media organisations allowed to film inside Iran tend to err on the side of caution, video footage coming out of Iran is a rarity.

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emily | 6:08 PM | YouTube |
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