This month’s feature takes another look at the meteoric rise of messaging apps in Iran, and particularly at the runaway success of Telegram.
While hardliners continue to rant and rave about its uses as a vehicle for ‘immoral’ content and pornography, more moderate members of the
Iranian political and media establishments appear to be looking increasingly to Telegram as a vehicle for getting state-approved content to its massive user base. We explore these tensions in more depth below.