Tehran: Iran has warned the opposition not
to use cell phones or Internet to organise rallies against the
government.
Police chief Gen Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam says those
"spreading the message of the opposition" will be prosecuted
and punished. The warning was carried today by the
semi-official ISNA news agency.
Since the disputed June presidential election,
hard-line state media have left the opposition with little
means to make its voice heard. In the government crackdown on
the opposition, almost all pro-reform newspapers have been
closed.
But tech-savvy and mostly younger opposition activists
have turned to cell phone SMS and e-mails as a weapon against
the establishment. Cell phone service is regularly blocked
during opposition rallies.
PTI
First Published: Friday, January 15, 2010, 19:51