Via Tech Crunch:
Messaging app Telegram and Facebook-owned social sharing platform Instagram appear to be being blocked in Iran.
Iran state TV said yesterday that authorities were temporarily blocking the services to “maintain peace”, according to the AP news agency.
The country has seen a rising wave of anti-government protests in recent days and ministers have accused social media of fueling dissent.
On Saturday Iran’s ICT minister, Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi tweeted directly at Telegram founder Pavel Durov — claiming that one of the platform’s channels “is encouraging hateful conduct, use of Molotov cocktails, armed uprisings, and social unrest” and urging Durov to act to “stop such encouragements via Telegram”.