BAKU (Azerbaijan), July 25 (Bernama) -- Iran hopes to team up with representatives of Facebook in an effort to remove Pages and Groups that feature pornography or are soliciting prostitution, Azerbaijan's TREND news agency reproted, citing a local news report.
Head of Iran's cyber police Commander Kamal Hadianfar said that the country will work with Facebook for the new initiative, but did not elaborate on what the plan would entail.
"The Cyber police has already identified these people who spread pornography," Hadianfar said, adding that their cases will be forwarded to the Moral police for further investigation.
Hadianfar noted that for the last 15 months a lot of effort has been put into "cleaning up the social networks, especially Facebook".
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The three Iranian men detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok on Israeli diplomats had more than terror on their minds in Thailand. Police said Friday they had also cavorted with prostitutes at a beach resort.
The news comes as Thai authorities announced they were searching for two more suspects in the botched bomb plot, including a explosives specialist who may have been training the Iranians.
The foiled plan was discovered Tuesday when explosives in the men’s rented house blew up by mistake, forcing them to flee. Two were detained in the Thai capital, and a third was captured Wednesday in Malaysia.
After flying into the southern city of Phuket on February 8, the men moved to Pattaya and stayed there for at least two nights before heading to Bangkok.
The Iranians hung out with several female sex workers during their stay there, and one of the women was brought to Bangkok to identify the suspects on Thursday,” said Lt. Col. Noppon Kuldiloke, a senior immigration police investigator.
A Canadian Iranian software engineer is facing imminent execution in Tehran for allegedly operating a pornography website after the Iranian Supreme Court rejected a final appeal from his lawyers.
Saeed Malekpour, 35, says he was tortured into making a confession about the website on live TV and Iranian officials used the broadcast to give him the death sentence.
The software engineer's family says the web software was only designed for uploading and sharing photos and that adult sites used it without is knowledge.
Human rights campaigners believe the hardline Islamist regime wants to use Malekpour as an example as it cracks down on Internet freedom ahead of elections.
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