The commander of Cyberpolice in Iran has declared that over 60 percent of Iranian population are online users.
Kamal Hadianfar said: There are 45 million Internet users in the country. Over 23 million of the users are young people.
“For 41 percent of the users the priority lies with searching for news while 19 percent you the internet for banking services,” he said.
The Cyberpolice (FATA) was officially launched its in January 2011.
At the time, Ahmadi Moghaddam, the head of Iranian regime’s police force said the Cyberpolice would take on anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used Internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests against the regime.
“Through these very social networks in our country, anti-revolutionary groups and dissidents found each other and contacted foreign countries and triggered riots,” he said.
On October 30, 2012, the repressive cyberpolice arrested 35-year-old Sattar Beheshti for “actions against national security on social networks and Facebook.”
Beheshti had criticized the Iranian regime in his blog. Beheshti was found dead in his prison cell on November 3.
The death of Beheshti sparked international condemnation.