Yahoo and Microsoft have taken Iran off the country lists of their email services as the U.S. has imposed tougher sanctions on the Islamic country.
"So essentially, you can't choose Iran as a country option because we are restricted from conducting business there - all US companies must comply with this policy." She was not able to say when Yahoo began applying the rules.
The Iranian government plays a large role in censoring what its citizens can access online. The OpenNet Initiative, a partnership of Harvard, Toronto, Oxford and Cambridge universities says Iran has installed, "one of the most extensive technical filtering systems in the world."
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