{"id":1379,"date":"2019-01-01T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:25:35","slug":"iran-declares-telegram-crypto-aspirations-an-act-against-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Iran Declares Telegram Crypto Aspirations an Act Against National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/c\/cointelegraph.jpg\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" \/>Jan. 01. 2019 &#8211; COINTELEGRAPH &#8211; By: Aaron Wood &#8211; <\/strong>The Iranian government has taken further steps against\u00a0Telegram\u2019s\u00a0cryptocurrency development, the Tehran Times\u00a0reports\u00a0Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secretary of the Criminal Content Definition Task Force Javad Javidnia has declared that any cooperation with the encrypted messaging app to launch its Gram token will be considered an act against national security and a disruption to the national economy. Javidnia stated:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>\u201cOne of the most important factors in banning Telegram was a sense of serious economic threat from its activities, which was unfortunately marginalized and neglected due to the fuss in the political atmosphere of the country.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran first\u00a0banned\u00a0the app in April when supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that\u00a0government\u00a0agencies would no longer use the app. The country\u2019s judiciary subsequently forbade its use altogether. In December 2017,\u00a0Iran\u00a0temporarily\u00a0blocked\u00a0Telegram and photo-sharing app\u00a0Instagram\u00a0in order to \u201cmaintain peace\u201d amid widespread protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to the ban, Iranian officials\u00a0criticized\u00a0the app, stating that its\u00a0initial coin offering\u00a0(ICO) was potentially \u201cundermin[ing] the national currency of Iran.\u201d Hassan Firouzabadi, the secretary of the High Council of Cyberspace approved the suggested ban due to Telegram\u2019s potential for bringing cryptocurrency to all of its Iranian users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Firouzabadi referred to Telegram as an \u201cenemy of the private sector,\u201d since \u201cTelegram never [agreed] to have an office in Iran and refused to work with the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The go-to messaging app of the crypto industry was also\u00a0banned\u00a0in\u00a0Russia\u00a0due to concerns over its ICO, with the possibility of a \u201ccompletely uncontrolled financial system\u201d reportedly leading to the block.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telegram\u00a0raised\u00a0nearly $1.7 billion in two funding rounds earlier this year, one of the industry\u2019s largest. The ICO sought investment to support the development of the Telegram messenger app and its own\u00a0blockchain\u00a0platform Telegraph Open Network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich reportedly took part in the first round of the ICO. Persons familiar with the matter told Russian media that Abramovich invested $300 million. Jon Mann, Abramovich\u2019s spokesperson, made no comment as to whether Abramovich took part, but denied the $300 million claim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 01. 2019 &#8211; COINTELEGRAPH &#8211; By: Aaron Wood &#8211; The Iranian government has taken further steps against\u00a0Telegram\u2019s\u00a0cryptocurrency development, the Tehran Times\u00a0reports\u00a0Dec. 31. Secretary of the Criminal Content Definition Task<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}